Sexual Health
Seller of viagra chocolate faces stiff sentence for mail fraud (AFP)
AFP - A businessman who sold Viagra-laced chocolate as a food supplement called "Boom" was indicted Wednesday for mail fraud by a federal judge, and faces 20 years in jail if found guilty. More »
Experts say sex abstinence program doesn't work (Reuters)
Reuters - Programs teaching U.S. schoolchildren to abstain from sex have not cut teen pregnancies or sexually transmitted diseases or delayed the age at which sex begins, health groups told Congress on Wednesday. More »
FDA says Pfizer's online Viagra ad did not mention risks (AP)
AP - Federal regulators have warned Pfizer Inc. for not mentioning the risks of Viagra in an advertisement featuring country musicians singing the praises of its popular impotency pill. More »
New HPV Vaccine Promising in Mice (HealthDay)
HealthDay - TUESDAY, April 15 (HealthDay News) -- Researchers say they've created a synthetic vaccine that can be delivered as a nasal spray for human papillomavirus -- the source of the most common sexually transmitted disease in the United States and a cause of cervical cancer. More »
Hawaii working to link its food chain (AP)
AP - A technology used to track everything from cattle and bottles of Viagra to U.S. military weapons will soon be tested on an unlikely candidate for surveillance: tomatoes. More »
S.Africa museum says stolen rhino horns could be deadly (Reuters)
Reuters - Two 19th century rhino horns stolen from a South African museum could be deadly if sold as a popular aphrodisiac because they are drenched in poison, a museum official said on Monday. More »
Man jailed for fake Viagra sales (Reuters)
Reuters - The general manager of a Shanghai chemical company was jailed for two years on Thursday for selling fake tablets of the male impotence drug Viagra on the Internet, the official Xinhua news agency reported. More »
Heart ills not to blame for women's poor sex life (Reuters)
Reuters - A woman's satisfaction with her sex life appears to have very little to do with the health of her heart and circulation, according to a new analysis of data from the Women's Health Initiative. More »
Sex therapists: A few minutes is best (AP)
AP - Maybe men had it right all along: It doesn't take long to satisfy a woman in bed. A survey of sex therapists concluded the optimal amount of time for sexual intercourse was 3 to 13 minutes. The findings, to be published in the May issue of the Journal of Sexual Medicine, strike at the notion that endurance is the key to a great sex life. More »
Urinary symptoms often affect women's sex life (Reuters)
Reuters - Women with lower urinary tract symptoms, or LUTS, are more likely to have sexual problems than women without LUTS, researchers reported here at the annual meeting of the European Association of Urology. More »