Results from a new survey show that few adolescent boys are getting information about contraception, HIV, and other sexually transmitted diseases.

The health minister of Brazil says the answer to the country’s problem with high blood pressure is for its citizens to have more sex.

Most students know there are problems with sexually transmitted diseases on their campuses, but many students say there is not enough access to tests for these infections on most campuses.

According to a new study, for every cigarette that a pregnant woman smokes per day, she raises her baby’s risk of strabismus–being cross-eyed–by five percent.

From epidurals to the modern tampon, from tubal ligation to Katie Couric’s colonoscopy, experts revisit the most important moments in health advances for changing women’s lives.

According to a new study, pregnant women who eat a healthy diet and who take multivitamins late in their pregnancy may be increasing their risk of premature birth.

A recent British tabloid story about a woman who developed genital arousal disorder after falling from a Wii Fit board brought giggles around water coolers, but experts say the condition can have real–and sometimes tragic–consequences.

British researchers have found that urologists in that country often do not detect cases of chlamydia in young men who visit their offices for related ailments.

Results from a new study suggest that circumcision not only reduces men’s risk of contracting HIV from heterosexual sex, but it can also lower the risk of infection with the human papillomavirus (HPV) in both HIV-positive and HIV-negative men.

Researchers at Tulane University have found that children who are spanked when they are three years old are more likely to be aggressive when they are five years old.