Tourists Holidaying In Southern Europe Frequently Experience Sexual Harassment, Sex Against Their Will

The European Institute of Studies on Prevention (Irefrea) surveyed more than 6,000 people in various airports in Mediterranean countries during summer 2009 to find out the levels of harassment and sex against one's will that had occurred...

Men Who Can't Produce Sperm Face Increased Cancer Risk, Stanford-Led Study Finds

Men who are diagnosed as azoospermic - infertile because of an absence of sperm in their ejaculate - are more prone to developing cancer than the general population, a study led by a Stanford University School of Medicine urologist has found. And a diagnosis of azoospermia before age 30 carries an eight-fold cancer risk, the study says...

Outcome Of Experimental Chlamydia Infections Points Towards Cancer

Chlamydia trachomatis is a human pathogen that is the leading cause of bacterial sexually transmitted disease worldwide with more than 90 million new cases of genital infections occurring each year. About 70 percent of women infected with Chlamydia remain asymptomatic and these bacteria can establish chronic infections for months, or even years...

Treatment For Common Menopausal Symptoms 50 Percent Less Likely To Be Received By British Women

New data, published in Menopause International, suggests that post-menopausal women in Britain are experiencing less sex, and less satisfying sex compared to their European and North American counterparts1, because they are considerably less likely to access appropriate treatment for a common, taboo condition called vaginal atrophy1...

Infertile Men Have Higher Cancer Risk

Men who have no sperm have a higher risk of developing cancer than other males, researchers from Stanford University School of Medicine reported in Fertility and Sterility (June 20th, 2013 issue). When a man has no measurable level of sperm in his semen he has azoospermia, he is azoospermic...

Predictors Of Hookup Behaviors Identified Among First-Year College Women

Casual, no-strings sexual encounters are increasingly common on college campuses, but are some students more likely than others to "hook up"? A new study by researchers with The Miriam Hospital's Centers for Behavioral and Preventive Medicine, published online by the Archives of Sexual Behavior, suggests there are certain factors and behaviors associated with sexual hookups, pa...

Chlamydia Infection May Pave Way For Cancer Via DNA Damage

New research from Germany suggests that persistent infection by Chlamydia may pave the way for cancer: not only does the pathogen cause mutations in host cell DNA, it also inhibits the cellular mechanisms that attempt to repair the damage...

Morning After Pill Fight Ends As FDA Approves OTC For All Ages

The FDA has approved the morning after pill for women of any age as an over-the-counter medication and with no point-of-sale restrictions. Over-the-counter (OTC) means that no prescription is required. The FDA said the approval is for "women of child bearing age potential", i.e. any female who can get pregnant...

Gay Men Should Be Able To Donate Blood, Says American Medical Association

The FDA has banned gay men from donating blood since 1983, however, the American Medical Association has just voted against the ban, saying it is outright discrimination. After the AIDS outbreak nearly three decades ago, the FDA (Food and Drug Administration) decided that homosexuals shouldn't be allowed to donate blood, given that the majority of HIV infections were among gay men...

Domestic Violence Affects 1 In 3 Women, WHO Reports

One in 3 women worldwide is a victim of physical or sexual violence, resulting in a global health epidemic, according to a new World Health Organization (WHO) report. Most of these females are attacked or abused by their boyfriends or husbands...

Testosterone Replacement Improves Pain Perception And Tolerance In Men With Low Testosterone

Testosterone therapy is associated with decreased pain perception in men with low testosterone levels related to opioid (narcotic) pain relievers (analgesics), a new study finds. The results were presented at The Endocrine Society's 95th Annual Meeting in San Francisco...

Hormonal Therapy For Transsexualism Safe And Effective

Hormonal therapy for transsexual patients is safe and effective, a multicenter European study indicates. The results were presented at The Endocrine Society's 95th Annual Meeting in San Francisco. Transsexual individuals who seek treatment may feel as though they were born the wrong gender...

Survey Reveals Male On Male Consensual Sex And Sexual Assault Common In South Africa

A survey of adult South African men published in this week's PLOS Medicine, shows that while overlapping sexual relationships with women appear to be common, roughly one in 20 men reported consensual sexual contact with a man, approximately one in ten reported being sexually assaulted by another man, and around 3% reported perpetrating such an assault...

Genes Of The Y Chromosome Identified Which Could Be Responsible For Its Association With Coronary Artery Disease

University of Leicester scientists have discovered a potential genetic contributor to the increased risk of heart disease among men. A team of researchers including clinicians and scientists have made an important step forward in search of the mechanisms underlying increased risk of coronary artery disease in men who carry a particular type of the Y chromosome (haplogroup I)...

Survey Reveals Male On Male Consensual Sex And Sexual Assault Common In South Africa

A survey of adult South African men published in this week's PLOS Medicine, shows that while overlapping sexual relationships with women appear to be common, roughly one in 20 men reported consensual sexual contact with a man, approximately one in ten reported being sexually assaulted by another man, and around 3% reported perpetrating such an assault...

Vaccine Lowers HPV Infection Rates In Teen Girls

The prevalence of human papillomavirus (HPV) infections in girls and women has significantly reduced since the introduction of the HPV vaccine, according to a new study in The Journal of Infectious Diseases. The research showed that since 2006, when the vaccine was introduced, vaccine-type HPV prevalence dropped 56% among teen girls between the ages of 14 and 19...

Link Between BPA And Defects Of A Testicular Hormone In Newborn Boys With Undescended Testicles

A new study links fetal exposure to a common chemical pollutant, bisphenol A (BPA), to defects of a testicular hormone in newborn boys with undescended testicles. The results, which were presented at The Endocrine Society's 95th Annual Meeting in San Francisco, suggest yet another potential harmful effect of BPA, which is widely used in many plastics, liners of food cans and dental sealants...

The Importance Of A Father's Diet Before Conception

When fathers eat a high-fat diet before conception of offspring, the male offspring have increased body weight after weaning and high body fat in midlife despite eating a low-fat diet, a new study in mice finds. The results were presented at The Endocrine Society's 95th Annual Meeting in San Francisco...

Transgender Adolescents Can Safely Receive Hormone Treatment To Halt Puberty

Hormone treatment to halt puberty in adolescents with gender identity disorder does not cause lasting harm to their bones, a new study finds. The results were presented at The Endocrine Society's 95th Annual Meeting in San Francisco...

After Uterus And Ovary Removal, Testosterone Therapy Improves Sexual Function

High doses of testosterone significantly improve sexual function among women who have had their uterus and ovaries surgically removed, a clinical study demonstrates. The results were presented at The Endocrine Society's 95th Annual Meeting in San Francisco...

Excess Stress Hormones Found In Obese Men After Eating

Overweight and obese men secrete greater amounts of stress hormones after eating, which may make them more susceptible to disease, a new observational study finds. The results were presented at The Endocrine Society's 95th Annual Meeting in San Francisco...

How Paternal Diet And Weight May Impact Offspring

Male mice who were fed a high-fat diet and became obese were more likely to father offspring who also had higher levels of body fat, a new Ohio University study finds. The effect was observed primarily in male offspring, despite their consumption of a low-fat diet, scientists reported at the annual meeting of The Endocrine Society in San Francisco, Calif...

Reduced Incidence Of Rape For Kenyan Girls Who Received Self-Defense Training

Rape is shockingly common in the slums of Nairobi, Kenya, where as many as one in four adolescent girls are raped each year. But a short self-defense course can dramatically reduce the girls' vulnerability to sexual assault, according to a new study from the Stanford University School of Medicine, Lucile Packard Children's Hospital and an organization called No Means No Worldwide...

One Side Effect Of Finasteride, For Male Pattern Hair Loss, May Be Decreased Drinking

Finasteride is a synthetic drug for the treatment of male pattern hair loss (MPHL) and an enlarged prostate. The side effects of finasteride for treatment of these two conditions can include increased rates of sexual dysfunction, such as low libido and erectile dysfunction; in fact, some men who have discontinued the medication continue to experience persistent sexual side effects...

Brain Development Affected In Male And Female Offspring Of Stressed Male Mice

Sperm doesn't appear to forget anything. Stress felt by dad - whether as a preadolescent or adult - leaves a lasting impression on his sperm that gives sons and daughters a blunted reaction to stress, a response linked to several mental disorders...

Last-Line Antibiotics Increasingly Ineffective Against Gonorrhoea But Prescribing Changes Could Help Delay Spread Of Untreatable Disease, UK

The last remaining antibiotics used to treat gonorrhoea (cefixime and ceftriaxone) in England and Wales are becoming less effective...

Research Could Lead To New Ways To Combat Chlamydia

A protein secreted by the chlamydia bug has a very unusual structure, according to scientists in the School of Medicine at The University of Texas Health Science Center San Antonio. The discovery of the protein's shape could lead to novel strategies for diagnosing and treating chlamydia, a sexually transmitted disease that infects an estimated 2.8 million people in the U.S. each year...

Dads Who Are Caregivers Often Treated Disrespectfully At Work

If policy-makers want to do something about falling birth rates, they may want to take a look at improving how people are treated at work when they step outside of traditional family roles at home. New studies show that middle-class men who take on non traditional caregiving roles are treated worse at work than men who stick closer to traditional gender norms in the family...

Risk Factors For Suicide Mapped

A landmark study of the Swedish population has given a clearer picture of important risk factors for suicide. The study, a collaboration between Lund University in Sweden and Stanford University, showed that the rate of suicide among men is almost three times that of women...

Morning After Pill Available For All Ages Without Prescription

The Obama administration has finally announced that it will follow a judge's order to allow easier access to the "morning after pill" for girls of any age, without the need for prescriptions. The pill is strictly intended to be used as an emergency contraceptive, in cases where the primary birth control (such as a condom) failed to work...

Older Fathers More Likely To Pass On Genetic Mutation To Their Children

Genetic mutation of a testis stem cell actually gives the disease an edge, making older fathers more likely to pass it along to their children Scientists at USC have unlocked the mystery of why new cases of the genetic disease Noonan Syndrome are so common: a mutation that causes the disease disproportionately increases a normal father's production of sperm carrying the disease trait...

Aspirin For Primary Prevention Of Heart Attacks In Men: Eligibility Increases When Cancer Mortality Benefit Added

While aspirin has been shown to be effective in preventing heart attacks in men, it also increases the risk of gastrointestinal bleeding and possibly stroke, even at low doses. As such, national guidelines suggest that aspirin be used for prevention only in men at higher risk for cardiovascular events, so that the benefits of aspirin are greater than its adverse effects...

Immune Regulation Of Ovarian Development: Programming By Neonatal Immune Challenge

Bacterial infections during early life, such as Chlamydia which is present in 15% of newly born babies, may reduce reproductive success in adult women. For example, exposure to bacteria can lead to a change in the onset of puberty, as well as in ovarian morphology and sexual behavior...

5 Tips On Fatherhood Based On Recent Research

As Father's Day draws near, psychologist Jeff Cookston says dads should ask their children for a little more feedback than they might get with the yearly greeting card. Just being a good parent may not be good enough, said Cookston, professor of psychology at San Francisco State University, who has studied fatherhood extensively...

Pomegranate, Green Tea, Turmeric And Broccoli May Help Fight Prostate Cancer

British researchers have scientifically proven that broccoli, turmeric, green tea and pomegranate help fight the most common cancer in men in the United States and the United Kingdom - prostate cancer...

Helping Women From War-Torn Countries Cope With Sexual Violence

In conflict-ridden countries around the world, rape and other forms of sexual violence are being used as weapons of war. In these settings, treatment services for victims are limited. A trial led by researchers at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health examined an evidence-based group psychotherapy treatment for sexual violence survivors in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC)...

Sex After Menopause

A satisfying sex life is an important contributor to older adults' quality of life, but the sexual pain that can come after menopause can rob women and their partners of that satisfaction. Treatment can help restore it, shows a global survey including some 1,000 middle-aged North American men and women, published online in Menopause, the journal of The North American Menopause Society (NAMS)...

Link Discovered Between Genetic Mutation Inherited From Father's Side And Early Puberty

Reaching puberty at an unusually early age can have adverse effects on social behavior and psychological development, as well as physical effects, including short stature, and lifelong health risks, such as diabetes, breast cancer and heart disease...

Male Victims Of Sex Assault And The Services They Use

While only a small percentage of adult males who are victims of sex assault report the crime, a new study by Women's College Research Institute (WCRI) and the Ontario Network of Sexual Assault/Domestic Violence Treatment Centres (ONSA/DVTCs) shows of those who do, an overwhelming majority - almost 90 per cent - use five or more services ranging from counselling to medical care and treatment...

When Making Female Friends, Women Reject Sexually Promiscuous Peers

College-aged women judge promiscuous female peers - defined by bedding 20 sexual partners by their early 20s - more negatively than more chaste women and view them as unsuitable for friendship, finds a study by Cornell University developmental psychologists...

Male Victims Of Sex Assault And The Services They Use

While only a small percentage of adult males who are victims of sex assault report the crime, a new study by Women's College Research Institute (WCRI) and the Ontario Network of Sexual Assault/Domestic Violence Treatment Centres (ONSA/DVTCs) shows of those who do, an overwhelming majority - almost 90 per cent - use five or more services ranging from counselling to medical care and treatment...

STI Diagnoses Rose 5% In 2012 In The UK

Last year, the number of new sexually transmitted infections increased by 5 percent, according to new data published by Public Health England (PHE). In 2011, there were 428,255 diagnosed cases of sexually transmitted infections compared to 448,422 in 2012...

Can Oral Sex Cause Throat Cancer?

Michael Douglas was diagnosed with throat cancer (oropharyngeal cancer) three years ago. He initially said it was caused by years of heavy smoking, alcohol abuse and stress. However, he recently told The Guardian newspaper that it was caused by oral sex (cunnilingus)...

Long-Term Sex Partners Of People With HPV-Related Oral Cancers Not At Increased Risk Of Infection

Spouses and long-term partners of patients with mouth and throat cancers related to infection with the human papilloma virus (HPV) appear to have no increased prevalence of oral HPV infections, according to results of a multicenter, pilot study led by Johns Hopkins investigators. The study's results suggest that long-term couples need not change their sexual practices, say the scientists...

Gender Differences Revealed For Health-Care-Associated Infections

A new study from Columbia University School of Nursing supports a growing body of evidence that women are less likely to contract bloodstream or surgical site infections than their male counterparts...

Perception Of A Women's Sexual Interest And Intent Altered In Sleep Deprived Men

A new study suggests that one night of sleep deprivation leads to an increase in men's perceptions of both women's interest in and intent to have sex. Results show that when they were well-rested, both men and women rated the sexual intent of women as significantly lower than that of men...

Perception Of A Women's Sexual Interest And Intent Altered In Sleep Deprived Men

A new study suggests that one night of sleep deprivation leads to an increase in men's perceptions of both women's interest in and intent to have sex. Results show that when they were well-rested, both men and women rated the sexual intent of women as significantly lower than that of men...

Heart Health Of Men With Type 2 Diabetes Improved By Soccer Training

A new study from the Copenhagen Centre for Team Sport and Health at the University of Copenhagen, Denmark, demonstrates that soccer training improves heart function, reduces blood pressure and elevates exercise capacity in patients with type 2 diabetes. Soccer training also reduces the need for medication...

15 Years Olds At Greatest Risk Of Sexual Assault

Sexual assault has almost as much to do with age as it does with gender, according to Penn State criminologists. Young people - both male and female - are the most likely targets of rape and other sexual assaults, said Richard Felson, professor of criminology and sociology. The most frequent victims of those assaults are 15 years old, regardless of gender, or the age of the offender, he said...