Sexual Health
News
FDA OKs first condom for anal sex
Though the CDC has long encouraged the use of a condom during anal intercourse, the FDA had not until now deemed this practice safe.
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Clinician experience, life stressors drive HIV adherence, retention in new patients
“Patients who reported better initial experiences with their provider at the first visit were less likely to be lost to follow-up,” said Dr....
Clinical Review
A Practical Approach for Primary Care Practitioners to Evaluate and Manage Lower Urinary Tract Symptoms and Benign Prostatic Hyperplasia
Over the past 3 decades, medication has become the most common type of BPH and LUTS therapy, but recently, newer minimally invasive surgeries have...
Conference Coverage
Updates to CDC’s STI guidelines relevant to midlife women too
An uptick in STIs, especially syphilis, in perimenopausal and postmenopausal women means the new STI recommendations from the CDC are relevant for...
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Mediterranean diet tied to less severe erectile dysfunction
“The Mediterranean diet could play a role in maintaining several parameters of vascular health and quality of life and in middle-aged men with...
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CDC revamps STI treatment guidelines
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Antifungal appears to ease fungus-culture-negative vulvodynia
Overall, more than a third of women (38%) had complete resolution of pain and 54% had a greater than 60% reduction in pain.
Case Reports
Left-Sided Amyand Hernia: Case Report and Review of the Literature
Left-sided Amyand hernia is a rare condition that requires a high degree of clinical suspicion to correctly diagnose.
Conference Coverage
Success in LGBTQ+ medicine requires awareness of risk
Cross-sex hormone therapy is a life-sustaining treatment that should be viewed analogously with any other long-term management strategy, such as...
News
HPV vaccination rates continue to climb among young adults in U.S.
For persons who have not previously received the HPV vaccine or who did not receive adequate doses, the HPV vaccine is recommended through age 26...