Sexual Health

Dangerous low blood sugar linked to sex drugs

Illegal anti-impotence drugs and herbs contaminated with the diabetes drug glyburide have caused some 150 cases of dangerously low blood sugar, researchers in Singapore reported on Wednesday.

A man poses for a portrait wearing a t-shirt with the message of protecting against HIV/AIDS in Dakar, Senegal.

Financial crisis must not eclipse AIDS fight: U.N.

World leaders must not let the global financial crisis distract them from a "moral responsibility" to fight HIV/AIDS, the United Nations' top AIDS official said Tuesday.

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A woman displays a cocktail of 14 different AIDS medications. Studies show that men who take powerful HIV cocktails can still pass the virus on in their semen, even if it cannot be found in the blood.

AIDS gels may work, but weakness found in cocktails

Gels to protect women from infection with the AIDS virus have shown hints that they may work, researchers said on Monday.

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A doctor shows a couple slides of their two day old embryo after an IVF procedure.

Fertility technology running ahead of ethics

Medical technology that allows women to give birth at ever more advanced ages — and to more babies at once — is overshadowing the critical question of whether they should, experts say.

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Study links handedness to fertility

People who are "mixed-handed," those who are able to use both hands with equal dexterity, may have harder time having a child than righties or lefties, a new study suggests.

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A double helix is seen in an illustration. A California biotechnology company says it will start human testing of a new approach to treating the AIDS virus that involves deliberately damaging the patient's DNA.

New AIDS approach disrupts patient's DNA

California biotechnology company Sangamo BioSciences Inc. said on Monday it will start human testing of a new approach to treating the AIDS virus that involves deliberately damaging the patient's DNA.

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In 2006, 28 per cent of gonorrhea infections in Ontario were resistant to a potent class of antibiotics known as quinolones, up from four per cent in 2002, according to a study in this week’s issue of the Canadian Medical Association Journal.

Gonorrhea 'superbug' comes to Canada

Gonorrhea superbugs are swiftly emerging in Canada, and men, as well as patients over 30 are at the greatest risk, new research shows.

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Dr. Karen Maples, part of a team of doctors who worked on the January 26 delivery of octuplets, walks from a press conference at Kaiser Permanente Bellflower Medical Center on January 27, 2009 in Bellflower, California.

Calif. octuplets case dismays fertility experts

The birth of octuplets in California, hailed as a medical triumph by doctors who delivered the tiny infants, has dismayed fertility experts who say high-number multiple births are an outcome they work...

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The more times a week that an adolescent reported having dinner with their family, "doing something religious" as a family, or having fun with their family, the less likely he or she was to engage in risky sexual behavior, the researchers found.

More family meals mean less risky sex

Parents who don't want their teens to engage in risky sexual behavior should make family time a priority, a new study suggests.

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A doctor performs in vitro fertilization. A British team has for the first time successfully used a new "test tube" fertilization technique that better predicts which of a woman's eggs will most likely result in pregnancy, a top fertility expert says.

New "test tube" technique offers pregnancy hopes

A British team has for the first time successfully used a new "test tube" fertilization technique that better predicts which of a woman's eggs will most likely result in pregnancy, a top fertility expert...

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A pharmacist hands condoms and other medicine to a customer. Researchers say they have developed a cream that might prevent herpes infection for as long as a week -- a potentially big step in protecting women from the sexually transmitted infection.

New cream disables herpes virus: Study

Researchers say they have developed a cream that might prevent herpes infection for as long as a week -- a potentially big step in protecting women from the sexually transmitted infection.

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A man holds a pillbox with the AIDS ribbon painted on its lid. China will provide two imported HIV drugs to patients who develop resistance to cheaper, domestic alternatives, state media said.

China rolls out two HIV drugs to tackle resistance

China will provide two imported HIV drugs to patients who develop resistance to cheaper, domestic alternatives, state media said on Monday, going some way to meeting a key demand of AIDS treatment activists...

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A couple holds hands. Couples may be able to enhance one another's health by being more physically affectionate with one another.

Touching helps couples reduce stress

Couples may be able to enhance one another's health by being more physically affectionate with one another, new research in Psychosomatic Medicine shows.

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