Sexual Health News
June 3, 2025
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Mar. 5, 2025 — A landmark study reveals that bacterial vaginosis (BV), a condition affecting nearly a third of women worldwide and causing infertility, premature births and newborn deaths, is in fact an STI, paving ...
Feb. 28, 2025 — Scientists have a new target to prevent cold sores -- and genital herpes flare-ups caused by the same virus -- after researchers discovered an unexpected way the herpes virus re-activates in the ...
Sep. 19, 2024 — Syphilis cases have surged worldwide, leaving public health officials scrounging for ways to stop the spread. Now, a large, collaborative study of syphilis genetics from four continents has found hints of a possible target for a ...
Aug. 14, 2024 — A vaccine against cancer-causing human papillomaviruses (HPV) is intended to help increase the rate of HPV vaccinations, particularly in developing countries. Scientists developed a completely new ...
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July 22, 2024 — Researchers have found a new way to identify genetic targets useful for control of mosquito populations, potentially offering an alternative to insecticides. Their study focused on the genetic basis ...
Feb. 20, 2024 — A pharmacy associate professor has developed a novel nanomedicine loaded with genetic material called small interfering RNAs (siRNA) to fight human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) using gene ...
Feb. 14, 2024 — People who have had the herpes virus at some point in their lives are twice as likely to develop dementia compared to those who have never been infected. A new study confirms previous research on ...
Genetic Variants Underlying Male Bisexual Behavior, Risk-Taking Linked to More Children, Study Shows
Jan. 3, 2024 — Because same-sex sexual behavior does not result in offspring, evolutionary biologists have long wondered how the genes associated with this behavior ...
Oct. 20, 2023 — A research team recently published findings on adding an anti-inflammatory painkiller used for arthritis pain to an oral emergency contraceptive pill ...
Sep. 16, 2023 — Scientists use genomics to uncover syphilis transmission patterns in England, in a pioneering new approach for STI ...
Sep. 5, 2023 — A new international study has shown mpox (formerly known as monkeypox) infections to be less severe among those who are vaccinated or had a previous infection in 2022, underlining the importance and ...
June 12, 2023 — Women who used combined contraceptive pills were at greater risk of developing depression than women who did not, according to a new study. Contraceptive pills increased women's risk by 73 per cent ...
May 30, 2023 — Low sexual satisfaction in middle age may serve as an early warning sign for future cognitive decline, according to a new study. The study, which tracked associations between erectile function, ...
May 9, 2023 — New research found that people living with HIV that have had pulmonary tuberculosis had broader and more potent HIV antibody responses and differences in HIV sequences predicted to be antibody ...
Earlier Headlines
Depression Rates in LGBTQIA+ Students Are Three Times Higher Than Their Peers, New Research Suggests
Nov. 13, 2024 — New findings uncover an alarming rise in depression rates among all higher education students in the United States, but especially among sexual and gender ...
Oct. 16, 2024 — Researchers investigated the neural mechanisms underlying the behavioral transition from the sexually receptive estrus stage to the non-receptive phase, as part of the hormone-dependent behavioral ...
Oct. 3, 2024 — Taking a dose of the oral antibiotic doxycycline after a high-risk sexual encounter has dramatically reduced the incidence of sexually transmitted infections (STIs) in places where the strategy is ...
Sep. 19, 2024 — Researchers find that despite the enactment of 12-month contraceptive supply policies in 19 U.S. states, most patients do not receive a long-term ...
July 23, 2024 — Long-acting injectable cabotegravir (CAB-LA) was safe and well tolerated as HIV pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) before and during pregnancy in the follow-up phase of a global study among cisgender ...
Apr. 17, 2023 — Discovery of a gene in multiple mammalian species could pave the way for a highly effective, reversible and non-hormonal male contraceptive for humans and animals. Researchers identified expression ...
Apr. 3, 2023 — Exposure to female odors and pheromones causes weight loss and extend the life spans of mice, which may have implications for humans, researchers have found. While it was already known that sensory ...
Mar. 24, 2023 — MitoQ, a mitochondrial antioxidant that is available to the public as a diet supplement, was found in a mouse study to reverse the detrimental effects that HIV and antiretroviral therapy (ART) have ...
Feb. 23, 2023 — New research showing high infant mortality rates are contributing to an incessant rise of the global human population supports arguments for greater access to contraception and family planning in ...
Jan. 9, 2023 — Women's reproductive needs should be considered holistically by considering pregnancy prevention and pregnancy preparation at the same time, finds a new ...
Dec. 9, 2022 — Researchers have found that people infected with HIV who receive antiretroviral therapy form antibodies against Sars-Cov-2 after being vaccinated against COVID with mRNA vaccines. Their immune ...
Nov. 7, 2022 — Investigators analyzed longitudinal samples of cervical and serum biomarker levels for immune activation, before and after subjects acquired HSV-2. They found that altered levels of specific ...
Oct. 21, 2022 — A three-dose course of the hepatitis B vaccine HEPLISAV-B fully protected adults living with HIV who had never been vaccinated against or infected with the hepatitis B virus (HBV), according to new ...
Oct. 20, 2022 — An increasing number of people are seeking emergency medical help for sexual assault, according to a new ...
Sep. 15, 2022 — Cow mucus provides the basis for a synthetic prophylactic gel developed to protect against HIV and herpes transmission. The lubricating gel proved 70 percent effective in lab tests against HIV, and ...
Aug. 24, 2022 — Lessons learned from the public health responses to the HIV and COVID-19 pandemics should help guide the response to the current outbreak of monkeypox, National Institutes of Health experts write in ...
Aug. 24, 2022 — A new study aims to examine differences in current e-cigarette use prevalence among U.S. youth at the intersections of sexual orientation with race and ...
Aug. 9, 2022 — When male and female fruit flies age, their brains become desexualized. Age-related changes take place in both sexes, but the male brain becomes feminized to a larger extent than the female brain ...
July 21, 2022 — An international collaboration of clinicians has identified new clinical symptoms in people infected with monkeypox in the largest case study series to date. Their findings will improve future ...
June 24, 2022 — The increased use of contraception in many countries is not because more women at any moment want to delay pregnancy or have no further children. Instead, it is because contraception is helping more ...
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- Depression Rates in LGBTQIA+ Students Are Three Times Higher Than Their Peers, New Research Suggests
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- NIH Experts Review Monkeypox Challenges
- Which Teens Are More Likely to Vape? Research Shows Surprising Patterns Across Race and Sexuality Groups