http://medicalxpress.com/ en-us Medical Xpress internet news portal provides the latest news on Health and Medicine. (Medical Xpress)—A research team from the Evolution and Ecology Research Centre at the University of New South Wales has found that women find men most attractive when they have approximately ten days of beard growth. In their paper published in the journal Evolution and Human Behavior, the team describes how volunteers asked to look at pictures of men with various stages of beard growth, found men with ten days growth to be the most attractive and those with five days growth to be the least. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-04-men-heavy-stubble.html Psychology & Psychiatry Mon, 29 Apr 2013 09:51:12 EST news286447858 The proportion of young women diagnosed with genital warts in Australia has seen a significant decline thanks to the HPV vaccine, suggests a paper published today in BMJ. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-04-genital-wart-young-women-plummets.html Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes Thu, 18 Apr 2013 18:30:01 EST news285522393 Lesbians, gays and bisexuals (LGBs) who are out to others have lower stress hormone levels and fewer symptoms of anxiety, depression, and burnout, according to researchers at the Centre for Studies on Human Stress (CSHS) at Louis H. Lafontaine Hospital, affiliated with the University of Montreal. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-01-health-benefits-closet.html Psychology & Psychiatry Tue, 29 Jan 2013 00:10:01 EST news278613398 Heterosexual men pick up clues about other men's physical qualities from their dance moves just as heterosexual women do, say researchers at Northumbria University. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-01-male-dancers-strength-men-women.html Psychology & Psychiatry Mon, 28 Jan 2013 11:16:44 EST news278594153 He loves her, he loves her not. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-12-delusions-gender-men-insecurities-sexist.html Psychology & Psychiatry Wed, 19 Dec 2012 17:54:51 EST news275162085 (Medical Xpress)—The ideal male and female bodies according to each of the sexes have been identified by researchers at Newcastle University using a special 3D design programme. The findings, published today in the journal PLOS One, reveal the remarkable similarities and differences in what men and women find attractive but also what they perceive to be attractive in their own sex. The research is part of a bigger project looking at the causes of, and possible treatments for, anorexia. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-12-ideal-body-size.html Psychology & Psychiatry Mon, 03 Dec 2012 07:13:17 EST news273741188 There is a popular belief that sexual orientation can be revealed by pupil dilation to attractive people, yet until now there was no scientific evidence. For the first time, researchers at Cornell University used a specialized infrared lens to measure pupillary changes to participants watching erotic videos. Pupils were highly telling: they widened most to videos of people who participants found attractive, thereby revealing where they were on the sexual spectrum from heterosexual to homosexual. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-08-pupil-dilation-reveals-sexual.html Other Mon, 06 Aug 2012 01:04:15 EST news263433848 Heterosexual men make up a small but growing number of people infected with HIV in Canada. Yet a new study has found that many of them feel existing HIV-related programs and services don't meet their needs and are geared primarily or exclusively toward gay men and heterosexual women who are living with the virus. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-07-gaps-heterosexual-men-hiv.html HIV & AIDS Fri, 27 Jul 2012 10:40:48 EST news262604438 (Medical Xpress) -- Women look for tall, dark and handsome. Those chiseled features and that deep sexy voice have gained the attention of women for generations. However, a new study published in PLoS ONE shows that those men with high-pitched voices may be better when it comes to mating. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-01-men-deep-voice-lacking-sperm.html Other Mon, 09 Jan 2012 14:55:35 EST news245343294 Bisexual men have unique health needs compared to exclusively homosexual and heterosexual men, but the stigma they face makes learning of their needs -- and even reaching these men in their "hidden communities" -- difficult for public health professionals, say Indiana University researchers. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-11-bisexual-men-sexual-health-requires.html Health Tue, 01 Nov 2011 04:50:30 EST news239341787 (PhysOrg.com) -- A new study published in the Archives of General Psychiatry describes how the use of functional Magnetic Resonance Imagery, or fMRI, is able to detect and diagnose pedophilia with greater accuracy than current options. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-10-brain-scans-pedophiles.html Psychology & Psychiatry Fri, 07 Oct 2011 10:42:37 EST news237202866 Researchers have found a potential new source for sexual problems among middle-aged and older men: the relationships between their female partners and the men's closest friends. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-08-partner-friends-sex-life.html Psychology & Psychiatry Mon, 08 Aug 2011 13:00:01 EST news232025761 (AP) -- The head of the United Nations AIDS program called Sunday for an increase in access to drugs that help treat or prevent the spread of the disease, saying it is "morally wrong" to keep millions of people off lifesaving medication. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-07-aids-conference-rome.html HIV & AIDS Mon, 18 Jul 2011 06:20:01 EST news230187947 An AIDS drug already shown to help prevent spread of the virus in gay men also works for heterosexual men and women, two studies in Africa found. Experts called it a breakthrough for the continent that has suffered most from AIDS. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-07-pills-hiv-straight-men-women.html HIV & AIDS Wed, 13 Jul 2011 05:35:30 EST news229754113 Homosexual men taking bicalutamide for prostate cancer were much more likely to report sexual problems during treatment than heterosexual patients, according to a study in the July issue of the urology journal BJUI. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-06-homosexuals-problems-prostate-cancer-drug.html Medications Wed, 22 Jun 2011 09:43:02 EST news227954557 Gay men have a higher prevalence of cancer compared with heterosexual men, and lesbian and bisexual female cancer survivors report lower levels of health than heterosexual female cancer survivors. Those are the conclusions of a new study published early online in Cancer, a peer-reviewed journal of the American Cancer Society. The study's findings shed light on the types of programs and services that are needed to assist lesbian, gay, and bisexual cancer survivors. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-05-sexual-affects-cancer-survivorship.html Cancer Mon, 09 May 2011 03:48:38 EST news224131565