Health

Study examines health, risks for gay, bisexual adults

New national data suggest lesbian, gay and bisexual adults were more likely to report impaired physical and mental health and heavy drinking and smoking, which may be the result of stressors they experience because of discrimination, ...

Psychology & Psychiatry

Premature mortality higher among sexual minority women, study finds

Compared to heterosexual women, bisexual women died 37% sooner and lesbian women 20% sooner, according to results from one of the largest studies to examine sexual orientation-related inequities in mortality and the first ...

Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes

Genomic sequencing method may help curtail syphilis spread

An easily implemented genome-sequencing method could help public health officials combat America's ongoing syphilis epidemic, researchers at the University of Washington School of Medicine and Public Health-Seattle & King ...

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