http://medicalxpress.com/ en-us Medical Xpress internet news portal provides the latest news on Health and Medicine. A new study published in The Journal of Sexual Medicine reveals that within a nationally representative study of American men and women, sex was rated as highly arousing and pleasurable whether or not condoms and/or lubricants were used. Condoms and lubricants are commonly used by both women and men when they have sex. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-01-reveals-sex-pleasurable-condom-lubricant.html Health Wed, 23 Jan 2013 00:00:03 EST news278098463 The use of certain water-based, over-the-counter personal lubricants can dry out and irritate vaginal and rectal tissue, but does not appear to increase susceptibility to HIV, according to a laboratory study published today in PLoS ONE. Even so, say study authors affiliated with the National Institutes of Health (NIH)-funded Microbicide Trials Network (MTN), more research is needed to fully understand the safety of personal lubricants and their effect on epithelial tissue, the layer of mucosal cells that acts as the body's first line of defense against sexually transmitted HIV. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-11-cell-personal-lubricants-hiv.html HIV & AIDS Wed, 07 Nov 2012 17:00:22 EST news271519316 Vienna, Austria: Children who are exposed to polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs), which were commonly used in a range of industrial products, could be at risk of an increase in asthma symptoms, according to new research. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-09-exposure-common-toxic-substances-asthma.html Immunology Sat, 01 Sep 2012 04:19:20 EST news265691923 Today's hormonal forms of birth control are vastly different from those used by earlier generations of women, both with lower levels of hormones and with different means of delivery (not just a pill), but many of the same problems related to women's pleasure remain. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-10-mother-birth.html Health Mon, 31 Oct 2011 01:05:10 EST news239241902