Sexual Health News

CHICAGO — Menopausal women who participated in weekly cognitive behavioral therapy sessions reported improvements in sexual function and depression and anxiety symptoms, researchers reported at the Annual Meeting of The Menopause Society.

Aspects of PTSD across several dimensions were associated with menopause-related health in midlife women veterans such as urinary and vasomotor symptoms, vasomotor symptom interference and sexual dysfunction, researchers reported.

Among postmenopausal women with sexual dysfunction, motivational interviewing decreased sexual dysfunction while increasing sexual quality of life and sexual self-efficacy, researchers reported.

Peri- and postmenopausal women with HPV have lower health-related quality of life compared with premenopausal counterparts, with the strongest differences observed within the sexuality domain, researchers reported.

U.S. congenital syphilis rates rose from 2016 to 2020 and were linked to preterm birth, longer hospital length of stay and higher costs with race/ethnicity, insurance, income, admission year and hospital characteristics tied to likelihood.

The FDA has granted NOWDiagnostics authorization to market their at-home, over-the-counter antibody test that detects a potential syphilis infection, according to a press release.

In June, Gilead Sciences announced that its investigational antiretroviral drug lenacapavir prevented 100% of new HIV infections during a phase 3 trial conducted among cisgender women in Africa.

Women treated for breast cancer exhibited highly prevalent and distressing sexual health concerns, according to results of the WISH-BREAST study presented at ASCO Annual Meeting.

At a time when sexually transmitted infections have been described as an epidemic, primary care providers should counsel specific patients on doxycycline for post-exposure prophylaxis, according to an expert.

Researchers confirmed the presence of toxic metals, including lead, cadmium and arsenic, in each of 60 tampon samples tested, though they cautioned more studies are needed on whether the detected metals can leach into the body.