Sexual Health News

The FDA has authorized the marketing of One Male Condom, which the agency said is the first condom specifically indicated to help reduce the transmission of sexually transmitted infections during anal sex.

Among postmenopausal women, CO2-laser therapy was a “safe energy-based therapeutic option” for management of the genitourinary syndrome of menopause; however, the quality of evidence is “very low or low,” researchers wrote.

The NIH Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute for Child Health and Development recently awarded an $11 million grant to The Population Council Center for Biomedical Research to develop a novel contraceptive.

In a recent survey, more than 20% of teenagers and young adults said that a lack of education was the reason why many youths do not use protection when engaging in oral sex.

The U.S. Preventive Services Task Force has issued a draft recommendation that encourages health care professionals to screen asymptomatic adolescents and adults who are at increased risk for syphilis.

Data show that prenatal syphilis screening, although required by law in some states and recommended by the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force and CDC, has not reached 100% among Medicaid recipients in six Southern states.

The proportion of women in the U.S. who were not up to date on recommended cervical cancer screening significantly increased from 2005 to 2019, according to findings published in JAMA Network Open.

According to a new estimate published in MMWR, around 5% of U.S. infants born to mothers with a confirmed or possible Zika virus infection during pregnancy had a Zika-associated brain or eye defect, and many had more than one.

Resilience, defined as the capacity to overcome stressful situations, is related to both sexual health and quality of life during the menopausal transition, according to a study published in Menopause.

High-grade vulvar, vaginal and anal precancer rates decreased or stabilized after the introduction of the HPV vaccine, according to findings published in the American Journal of Preventive Medicine.