News tagged with 'Sex'

Online suppliers are selling Magic Power Coffee that the FDA warns is enhanced with an additional chemical similar to the active ingredient in the prescription drug, Viagra. Consumers are warning not to drink the coffee.

There are 19 million newly diagnosed cases of sexually transmitted diseases(STD)a year, almost half among 15 to 24 year old females, finds this federal report from the CDC. African-American females have 20 times the gonorrhea rates than Caucasians showing the prevention message is not being heard.

The CEO of Craigslist says he feel terribly about the crime that was committed with the help of Craigslist ads for erotic services. But this is not the first time the site has enabled criminal activity. Some states are asking the site to shut down its ads for the sex trade, while others are using the site to catch criminals.

Circumcision reduced cases of herpes and human papillomavirus in Ugandan men, say researchers from Johns Hopkins. Circumcision is already known to reduce HIV infections. Researchers are calling for higher circumcision rates. 

Online social networking site, MySpace has purged 90,000 registered sex offenders from its site at the urging of  the attorneys general from Connecticut and North Carolina.  Facebook says it has its own system for monitoring users. Online bullying is a far more prevalent problem, experts say. 

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) reports the sexually transmitted infection, chlamydia is at a record million plus new cases annually. The data, included in the annual Surveillance Report on STDs, indicates better reporting may account for the numbers.

In a new study, researchers found more than half the teenagers who use the popular social networking site MySpace have posted unsafe, revealing personal information on the site.

They pledge to wait until marriage to have sex, but more often than not, teens who made that pledge were as likely to have intercourse as other U.S. adolescents, according to a new study.  

An FDA advisory panel unanimously voted to approve a new, cheaper version of the female condom. The product has been unpopular in the past, largely because it is priced much higher than the traditional male condom. But the second generation FC2 product is expected to be 30 percent less making them more affordable.

Women who have unsafe sex could be at a greater risk of contracting HIV than originally thought, following tests that showed the virus could penetrate through healthy vaginal tissue.

The digital age of teenage flirting is called “sexting” (instead of “texting”) and it involves sending nude or semi-nude photos from cell phone to cell phone. The troubling combination of teenagers acting impulsively and provocatively is not new, but the accessibility to technology is.

Two teenage girls are facing years in jail and thousands in fines, charged with abusing and sexually humiliating elderly Alzheimer's disease and dementia nursing home patients who couldn't fight back. Other teens allegedly watched and said nothing.

It's the most comprehensive assessment yet of what the last 30 years of media has delivered to our youth. "A wake-up call" to parents, the studies conclude in finding that overwhelmingly sexually-saturated content and hours of immobility are having an adverse health impact on children and teens.

Despite government recommendations in 2006, only 5 percent of patients with signs of serious illness are being tested routinely in hospital emergency rooms for the virus that causes AIDS, finds a new study. HIV is a life-threatening disease that is severely under-diagnosed and undertreated in the U.S.

The Gardasil vaccine, intended to prevent cervical cancer in girls and women shows strong signs of preventing genital warts in men, according to a new study funded by Merck, who manufactures Gardasil.