Sexual Health - News
Poor people in India and other developing countries may lose access to affordable generic drugs as part of free-trade negotiations...
About 16 percent of Americans between the ages of 14 and 49 are infected with genital herpes, making it one of the most common...
Although studies in Africa have shown that circumcision can lower the spread of HIV among heterosexuals, it may not do much...
Malaria could be eliminated as a public health problem within a decade in most countries where it is now endemic, an international...
India will have to scale up prevention of HIV to avoid having to spend an increasing share of its health budget on treatment...
Women infected with HIV or at risk of becoming infected with HIV, the virus that causes AIDS, appear more likely to develop...
The Philippines diagnosed 143 people with HIV in January - a national high - and the country's health secretary said on Thursday...
Women whose water has broken early may want to wait at least 18 months before having their next child, new research shows....
Families in some poor nations are trapped in cycles of illness and poverty as authorities fail to tackle chronic health problems...
More than 90 percent of the world's 16 million injecting drug users are offered no help to avoid contracting AIDS, and governments...
The antidepressant bupropion may hold promise for improving symptoms in younger women diagnosed with so-called hypoactive...
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration said on Tuesday that HIV drugs Invirase and Norvir might lead to an abnormal heart...
How quickly an HIV patient's immune system deteriorates may not affect the outcome of the illness, a study has found, and...
The introduction of effective drugs against HIV, the virus that causes AIDS, has not changed gay men's risk of contracting...
Golfer Tiger Woods' admission that he is undergoing therapy after having adulterous affairs has focused attention on the...
The quest for a cream or gel to prevent AIDS infection has narrowed to using powerful HIV pills that are already on the market,...
An AIDS vaccine that appears to have worked at least partly in Thailand may only temporarily protect patients, with the effects...
Condoms that do not fit right could break and may reduce sexual pleasure for both partners, suggesting reasons why men and...
Men who work in certain occupations continue to be at increased risk of lung cancer, new research from Italy shows. In fact,...
Women who have their "tubes tied" to prevent future pregnancies do not seem to have an increased risk of sexual dysfunction...
Lung cancer is often dramatically different in women than it is in men, U.S. researchers reported on Tuesday in another study...
Global attention is turning away from the AIDS epidemic at just the wrong time and means a fresh wave of the disease could...
Abstinence-only sex education can work -- if it's based on established strategies for helping young people change their attitudes...
U.S. researchers have linked mothers' infection during pregnancy to asthma, the most common chronic disease among American...
Scientists say they have solved a crucial puzzle about the AIDS virus after 20 years of research and that their findings...
Sexual frustration amongst migrant workers in China's booming southern province of Guangdong is leading to a host of social...
Circumcising newborn boys to stop them from becoming infected with the AIDS virus in later life is more cost-effective than...
A simple "see and treat" approach using a test costing $2 could help doctors prevent 100,000 cervical cancer deaths a year...
The United States is retooling its global multibillion-dollar fight against HIV/AIDS to transform healthcare in some of the...
Taking a cocktail of powerful AIDS drugs appears to have cut the average death rate by half in a group of people infected...
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