Getting Better (Free subscription) | yesterday
No matter how early I wake up, it's always five hours later in the UK and I'm overwhelmed by the thought that I'm already behind (I won't even get into the feeling I have when I think of our Australian readers). So when I start the day reading my Twitter stream, it's usually populated by midday news from England. I follow the NHS - National Health Service - "one of the largest publicly funded...
ACLU Bog of Rights (Free subscription) | 20/11/2009
Today marks the 20th anniversary of the Convention on the Rights of the Child, the most comprehensive treaty on children's rights. The convention has been ratified by nearly every country in the world, except for the United States. The convention would fill current gaps in U.S. laws, and provide all children in America with the same robust protections that children in 193 countries are already entitled...
Black Voices Blogs (Free subscription) | 20/11/2009
Filed under: Sexual Health African-Americans continue to bear a greater burden of sexually transmitted diseases (STD) than any other racial or ethnic group in the United States. A CDC report released this week shows that, just as is the case for the HIV epidemic, African-Americans are disproportionately impacted by other STDs. Both the number of STD cases reported in 2008, and rates of all three nationally...
Black Voices Blogs (Free subscription) | 20/11/2009
Filed under: Sexual Health There are two things human beings do very well, run their mouths and, ahem...procreate. Trust me, right now someone in this world, actually probably many people, are getting their collective freaks on, in famliar and unfamiliar ways. There are people who should be having sex as well as people who shouldn't (at least not with each other). Through the 2 million-year history...
Catholic Commentary (Free subscription) | 19/11/2009
This is the title of a press release from the Barking, Havering and Redbridge University Hospitals NHS Trust, my local NHS hospital trust. It does not refer to the adoption of a policy position. It refers to the fact that the Trust is spending some of its money to have a stand at an "erotic exhibition". I can't quite think of the best way to describe the Erotica exhibition, though I suspect...
Pole star Health tsar (Free subscription) | 19/11/2009
I received an e-mail yesterday that must have caught me a generous mood, it was from Dana at the Eddystone Trust and she asked me if I would be able to volunteer to help out with a charity bed push to raise money for the trust and to raise awareness of HIV and AIDS. I obviously forgot that the 3rd December on the Piazza is likely to be freezing and the last thing my muscles need is to be cold and pushing...
Later On (Free subscription) | 19/11/2009
I don’t believe that the US is quite mature enough—or well-educated enough—to embrace something like this, reported by Abel Pharmboy: No matter how early I wake up, it’s always five hours later in the UK and I’m overwhelmed by the thought that I’m already behind (I won’t even get into the feeling I have when I [...]
Sacramento Bee (Free subscription) | 19/11/2009
San Juan Unified School District board members voted 3 to 2 on Tuesday to preserve a policy requiring parental consent to excuse students for "confidential medical services" even though it could cause the district to lose state funding. District staff proposed changing the policy after they discovered it doesn't reflect a state law that allows students in grades seven to 12 to leave campus...
Stand Your Ground (Free subscription) | 19/11/2009
Sarah Flicker, a York University professor, claims that " access to sexual-health education is a basic human right ". But judging from her arguments against Alberta's bill 44, (which enshrined parents' right to withdraw their children from classes on so called "sexual orientation", sexuality or religion,) she apparently believes that this "right" is in fact a duty. "It's...
Herbal Remedies (Free subscription) | 18/11/2009
Website Go to the Official CaliPlus Website CaliPlus materializes your sexual fantasies! It has been observed that men experiencing a lack of erection discreetly resort to any remedy offered to them. They try vacuum pumps and even chemical drugs. These experiences usually have disastrous side-effects and the person ends up with more side-effects than what he started off with. So is there a safe and...
Spanish Teaching (Free subscription) | 16/11/2009
guardian.co.uk Diary of a Call Girl Blogger Is Revealed - Gasp - as a ScientistABC NewsThe most celebrated high class hooker in the world has revealed herself to be a high class cancer scientist and says she is proud of the good old days. Dr. Hilda Hutcherson answers viewer questions about sexual health. …Scientist Says She [...]
Salon.com (Free subscription) | 16/11/2009
Proving yet again that America leads the world, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention announced today that our nation has set a new record for sexually transmitted diseases . In 2008, we clocked in an all time high of 1.2 million new cases of Chlamydia and an estimated 6.2 million of HPV. Syphilis, which once looked to have gone the way of prohibition and ragtime, has also mounted an...
Black Voices Blogs (Free subscription) | 16/11/2009
Filed under: Sexual Health , Women's Health , Men's Health , Disease Prevention , Cancer HIV, the virus that causes AIDS, herpes, and gonorrhea are among the much better known sexually transmitted diseases, but the human papilloma virus (HPV) is just as common, according to Virgie Bright-Ellington, M.D. More than 99 percent of cervical cancer is caused by HPV, Dr. Bright-Ellington writes in her book,...
Pai (Free subscription) | 14/11/2009
Did you know that it has not always been considered unlucky? The name, Friday, comes from the Norse goddess Freya. (Wednesday comes from Odin - Odin's Day -> Wodin's Day -> Wednesday). Freya is a goddess of love, passion and self care for women. 13 is a scared number because it is the number of moon cycles within a solar year. It used to be thought that the moon governed women's menstrual cycles...
Food &Health Skeptic (Free subscription) | 14/11/2009
The old Bisphenol scare rumbles on Anti-business alarmists have been trying for years to demonize this stuff so every now and again they should get an apparent hit by chance alone. In this case the groups with different levels of exposure probably differed in other ways and even if we accept the findings it probably shows only that many things (even water) can be harmful if you ingest huge amounts...
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