Articles tagged with: Health Risks
July 16, 2007 – The Advocate magazine (January 30, 2007) described the problem with depression that MSMs (Men who have Sex with Men) have as it relates to the use of the drug Ecstasy.
According to the Advocate, …
October 5, 2007 – Public health officials in Pennsylvania are concerned about the spike in syphilis cases in the state. The most recently reported cases are from 2005. The 199 cases that year hit a …
October 22, 2007 – A report in the San Francisco Chronicle (October 13, 2007) notes that several Kaposi’s Sarcoma (KS) cases have emerged in the city among long-term HIV positive individuals.
Fifteen patients are being treated …
January 25, 2008 - The Journal of Sex Research (Vol. 44, Issue 3, 2007) has published the results of a survey of bisexual males and their use of condoms with male and female sex partners.
The researchers …
February 22, 2008 – A study published in Journal of Studies on Alcohol and Drugs, (Jan. 1, 2008), surveyed 405 self-identified lesbians in Chicago and 548 urban women from a national sample on rates of alcohol …
June 5, 2008 – The Journal of Sexual Research (Vol. 44, Issue 3, 2007) reviewed Lesbian Women and Sexual Health: The Social Construction of Risk and Susceptibility by K.A. Dolan.
Dolan recruited 162 self-identified lesbian women from …
The US Center for Disease Control CDC and the Massachusetts Department of Public Health MDPH has recently released the Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System (BRFSS).
Researchers conducted an “in depth” survey that screened for health disparities among …
Michelle A. Cretella, MD
American College of Pediatricians
Philip M. Sutton, PhD, LMFT, LP
Editor, Journal of Human Sexuality
In recent weeks, concern has been expressed nationally about workshops (Staver, 2010), often offered in schools, which have taught “fisting” along …
Summary by Philip M. Sutton, Ph.D.
by James E. Phelan, LCSW, CADAC, Psy.D
March 27, 2006 – Previous studies looking at correlations between sexual orientation and substance abuse had been criticized largely because of sampling issues. The samples in earlier studies were …
