Testosterone May Affect Learning Skills; May Be Put In Tablet Form
...e-replacement therapy report that the primary male sex hormone may affect some learning skills, including...ghlights the importance of studying the effects of sex hormones on brain function," says Adrian Dobs, M.D., senior author and an associate professor of med......blem is that it is harder for adults to talk about sex than substance abuse. Parents don't talk about sex with their children," says Diane Morrison, a University of Washington research associate professor o...Studies Find Public Policies For Children And Teenagers Not Very Effective
...buse Resistance Education (D.A.R.E.), school-based sex education programs and the Children's Television A...ery well, say psychologists whohave found that the sex education curriculum ignores the importanceof family and social skills development and is too focuse...Natural Estrogens May Help Protect Women From Brain Damage During Stroke
...lythe same as in males. This indicates that female sex steroids, most likely estrogen, protect thebrain, according to Hurn. "A growing body of evidence indicates that estrogen has multiple vasculareffects, all of whichcould contribute to the salvage of brain tissue during episodes of inadequateblood...Educational Intervention Can Reduce Sexual Behaviors Known To Transmit HIV
...ugh 7 percent of male participants reported having sex with men during thethree months prior to the baseline interview. Nationwide, rates of HIV infection and AIDS are higher among racial andethnic minority populations, especially African Americas, who represented 41percent of new AIDS cases in...Intervention can help reduce risky sexual behavior, according to results published in Science
...als have launched many campaignsto encourage safer sex practices, but there has been little substantive data toshow whether such behavioral interventions actually work. Now, as part of aspecial section on AIDS in the 19 June 1998 issue of Science, investigators withthe National Institute of Mental Health...Voluntary HIV Counseling And Testing Reduce Risk Behavior In Developing Countries
...untriescould influence the practice of unprotected sex by individuals and couples. Gloria Sangiwa of the ...y findings showed: Overall rates of unprotected sex dropped for all participants, regardless ofwhether the partner was a primary partner, a non-primary ...Promising Results For Woman-Controlled Anti-HIV Product
...us enough to discontinue use. The mainstay of safe sex has been the male condom--an effective barrier tosemen that may contain infectious HIV--whose success depends upon a cooperativemale partner. There is strong interest in such woman-controlled anti-HIVproducts, according to a related study involving w...UCSF Researchers Seeing Increased Rates Of Unprotected Sex Among San Francisco Gay Men
...ferent or unknown HIV status hadsignificantly more sex partners, were more likely to be drinking, and wer...o stop and find a condom. Those havingunprotected sex only with partners of the same HIV status were significantlymore likely to say they had unprotected ...UNC Researchers Find Drug-Resistant HIV In Semen
...lina andSwitzerland, most with a history of having sex with men, but not exclusively.Five of the 11 had never taken drugs for HIV. Six had received previoustreatment with reverse transcriptase (RT) drugs, which are designed to block HIVfrom delivering its DNA into the cell. All subjects were identified w......o be at risk for HIVbecause they were men who have sex with men. After adjusting for differences inthe characteristics of persons who tested anonymously versus confidentially,anonymous testing remained significantly associated with earlier entry tomedical care. One surprise, the researchers not...Mechanism By Which Estradiol Protects Women From Heart Disease Suggested By Emory Team
... DALLAS -- Scientists have long known that female sex hormones such as estradiolprotect women from cardiovascular disease. But understanding how estradiolprotects arteries from the oxidation of low-density lipoprotein (LDL)cholesterol associated with dangerous atherosclerotic plaque formation haseluded......ibitors may beless concerned about practicing safe sex than those HIV patients not beingtreated with the ...wo and a half times more likely to engage in risky sex (usecondoms less than half the time while having sex) compared to patients not beingtreated with pro...Study Finds Olestra Chips Don't Generate Gastrointestinal Woes
...showed no significant differences either by age or sex or inthe number of days volunteers reported any kind of abdominal symptoms, he said.One of the few differences was that people in the olestra group reported anaverage of one more day during the six weeks of more frequent bowel movements. Oles...Poor Health In Pregnancy And After Childbirth Tied To History Of Abuse
...such as, "Had anyone ever succeeded intouching the sex parts of your body or made you touch the sex parts of theirbody by using force or threatening to harm you?" Physical abuse was tapped byasking, "...Debilitating Body Image Disorder Often Begins In Teens; Likely To Be Missed
...nity samplewould likely have a more balanced sex ratio than this study. The imbalance likely occurred becausepatients were recruited from a psychiatric population. The study was supported by an unrestricted grant from SolvayPharmaceuticals. Albertini, clinical assistant professor...Prevalence Of Sexual Abuse In Men
...eristics and associated problems of non-consensual sex in men: cross sectional survey Medical Professionals need to be aware of the adverse psychological effects on men who have been the victim of a non-consensual sexual experience, say researchers from Royal Free and University College and St George's......ing. Honesty on the Net and regarding Internet sex activities does seem to suffer. Most respondents, 61 percent, reported occasional "pretending" about their agewhile on the net. Thirty-eight percent admitted presenting themselves as arace different than their own. Additionally, three out of four ...Strokes Are More Common In The Black Population
...plained by confounders suchas social class, age or sex and they conclude that ethnic differences ingenetic, physiological and behavioural risk factors for stroke should beinvestigated further. They say that this information could then provide thebasis for effective strategies for stoke prevention in mul...It's official: sex is good for you, at least in moderation. Psycholog...sts inPennsylvania have shown that people who have sex once or twice a week get aboost to their immune systems. Scientists can evaluate how robust ...