Wife Still In Love, But Husband’s Health Issues Have Hurt Sex Life

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 [...]

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The Internet As A Setting For Sexual Health Development Among Gay Youth

Sex education is predominately being taught in our schools across the nation, with a medley of variations on how to teach the subject. More and more schools are choosing to teach their students about sexual health, risks, and general knowledge and foregoing the idea that abstinence is the only answer. The educational facilities who address [...]

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Planet Organic shelves plan to buy California-based organic food chain

Planet Organic Health Corp. (TSXV:POH) says it no longer plans to acquire California-based organic food retailer, New Leaf Community Markets, due to the impact of tighter capital markets.
That’s an about-face for the Edmonton-based company, which said last month that previously announced expansion plans would continue, despite the decision to cancel a stock offering that had [...]

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Psychiatric Home Resident Assaults Counselor He Was Dating

A resident of a halfway house for psychiatric patients is accused of severely beating a staff counselor he’d been dating, holding her captive in a car until the woman’s parents reached her cell phone, police said today.
Hearing her terrified voice, the parents called 911, and police later discovered the bloody couple parked a quarter mile [...]

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Battlefield Scars Often Carry Over To Bedroom, Troops Find

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 [...]

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Battlefield Scars Often Carry Over To Bedroom, Troops Find

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 [...]

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Mental Health Board Considers Plan

The Ascension Parish Council is considering a new ordinance that puts the Mental Health Board in an advisory role and states that it “shall not interfere with the day-to-day operations.”
The proposal crops up in connection with a long-running dispute between board members and the director of the Mental Health Unit. Last year, board members unsuccessfully [...]

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Sugar Intake Not Associated With Obesity Survey

New Zealanders’ intake of sugar is not associated with being overweight or obese, new research released by the Sugar Research Advisory Service has found.
The New Zealand research, headed by University of Otago’s Dr Winsome Parnell and recently published online by Public Health Nutrition, examined data collected in the most recent New Zealand nutrition surveys for [...]

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High Court Says Gay Partners Can’t Get Health Benefits

A same-sex marriage ban prevents governments and universities in Michigan from providing health insurance to the partners of gay workers, the state Supreme Court ruled Wednesday.
The 5-2 decision affects up to 20 universities, community colleges, school districts and governments in Michigan with policies covering at least 375 gay couples.
Gay rights advocates said the ruling was [...]

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Hormone may be markets master

“If I feel crappy, most of the time I shouldn’t trade,” he said. “I should save my money. You know, testosterone and confidence go hand-in-hand.”
But academics are only just beginning to explore the relationship between emotions and finance, and the study is intriguing because it provides biological insight into phenomena such as irrational exuberance, in [...]

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