June 25, 2008
· Filed under Health Sexual
I’ve been married to my husband, who’s 58, for 16 years. We had an extremely active, passionate sex life for the first eight years of our marriage, but none since. I miss sex desperately. I’ve contemplated affairs and divorce many times. I love my husband so much, but I’m miserable without sex.
At first he stopped [...]
June 16, 2008
· Filed under Health Sexual
Young people are more likely to use sexual health services if clinics are based in schools, it has emerged.
The UK’s teenage pregnancy rates are among the worst in Europe - rising by 143% from 1991 to 2001 - and the Department of Health has called for children to have better access to school-based clinics.
According to [...]
June 16, 2008
· Filed under Health Insurance
Health was on everyone’s mind Saturday as thousands gathered in Orlando for the annual 100 Black Men of America conference.
Held at Disney’s Yacht & Beach Club Resorts, the five-day conference that ends today was focusing on health issues affecting the black community.
It included a Community Empowerment Project at Jones High School that featured free health [...]
June 16, 2008
· Filed under Health Insurance
Trusera’s health social network http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_network launches today, and many that check out the new site may wonder how Trusera is different from most other health-related communities out there, such as DailyStrength and RevolutionHealth. It was the first question that came to my mind, so I asked Trusera founder Keith Schorsch about some of the site’s [...]
June 12, 2008
· Filed under Health Sexual
Young people are more likely to use sexual health services if they can access them at schools, according to research by the University of the West of England. A pilot scheme offering drop-in sexual health clinics in Bristol schools has successfully accessed ‘hard to reach’ groups including boys and vulnerable young people who would not [...]
June 12, 2008
· Filed under Health Sexual
Young people are more likely to use sexual health services if they can access them at schools, according to research by the University of the West of England. A pilot scheme offering drop-in sexual health clinics in Bristol schools has successfully accessed ‘hard to reach’ groups including boys and vulnerable young people who would not [...]
June 5, 2008
· Filed under Health Sexual
Trauma and Mental Health Disparities has found that interventions that address the life experiences of these men — including their early sexual experiences — in addition to risk and general health issues can contribute significantly toward preventing high-risk behavior and reducing depression rates. The success is largely due to the social support found within these [...]
June 5, 2008
· Filed under Health News
A port-funded study on health care options for independent truck drivers in San Pedro Bay paints a mostly bleak picture for drivers and their families, who face high costs, limited coverage and the likelihood of rejection by insurance companies.
The study, presented Monday to Port of Long Beach Harbor Commissioners, estimates that 40 percent of drivers [...]
May 22, 2008
· Filed under Mental Health
Sheri Raves is a third-year nursing student in the Athabasca University at Mount Royal College bachelor of nursing program. This piece on the role nurses play in our healthcare system is part of a class assignment to share with the public more about what nurses do.
What does nursing mean to you? Most people picture a [...]
May 22, 2008
· Filed under Health Sexual
Wounds and mental disabilities of troops returning from Afghanistan and Iraq can mess up their sex lives too, health experts said Wednesday. But those wounds often go untreated because the topic is taboo and has gone unstudied.
Whatever the reason, failed sexual intimacy can contribute to higher suicide and divorce rates among returning troops, specialists told [...]