• Thursday, November 5, 2009 - 12:50pm By Margaret Wade
    Among those who shared comments with me about body fluids and spirituality since my last column, they spoke more of issues that are central to daily life than about sacred sex practices or rituals. Sharing body fluids can mean sharing disease or...
  • Tuesday, July 28, 2009 - 12:49pm By Liz Highleyman
    You've got the basic concept down: condoms can protect you from some sexually transmitted diseases (STDs) but not others. Condoms offer good protection against diseases—like HIV, gonorrhea, and chlamydia—that actually travel in semen (...
  • Tuesday, June 2, 2009 - 4:20pm By Tim McElreavy
    While the vaccine against certain types of human papillomavirus (HPV) has been recommended for girls and women aged 9 to 26, a new study published in The Lancet suggests that women up to the age of 45 could reap the same benefits. HPV is known...
  • Tuesday, May 5, 2009 - 11:52am By Tim McElreavy
    The Waterloo Cedar Falls Courier reports that Nick Clayton Rhoades, 34, of Plainfield, Iowa, has been sentenced to 25 years in prison for failing to disclose that he was HIV positive before having sex with another man in June, 2008. The sentence is...
  • Thursday, March 26, 2009 - 1:57pm By Tim McElreavy
    The Washington Post reports that drug-maker Merck & Co. has asked the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to consider approving the use of Gardasil, its HPV vaccine, for use in boys and men aged 9-26. Gardasil protects against the human...
  • Thursday, March 26, 2009 - 10:51am By Tim McElreavy
    A study published in the New England Journal of Medicine finds that circumcision significantly reduces the risk of contracting herpes and human papillomavirus (HPV). Researchers performed circumcisions on 1,684 African men and tracked their health...