Health

Returning to intimacy after childbirth

(HealthDay)—"No sex for six weeks" used to be the standard advice following childbirth and, according to many doctors, it is still a good practice to allow healing. But it's not a hard-and-fast rule.

Medications

'Female Viagra:' Long overdue or Big Pharma overkill?

Addyi - better known as "female Viagra" (though it's not a very accurate comparison) - is either a long-overdue acknowledgment that women's sexual health matters as much as men's, or the latest attempt to make women feel ...

Medications

FDA approves first pill aimed at boosting female libido

The Food and Drug Administration has approved the first prescription drug designed to boost sexual desire in women, a milestone long sought by a pharmaceutical industry eager to replicate the blockbuster success of impotence ...

Neuroscience

Brain scans can predict weight gain and sexual activity: study

At a time when obesity has become epidemic in American society, Dartmouth scientists have found that functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) brain scans may be able to predict weight gain. In a study published April ...

Psychology & Psychiatry

Is sexual addiction the real deal?

Controversy exists over what some mental health experts call "hypersexuality," or sexual "addiction." Namely, is it a mental disorder at all, or something else? It failed to make the cut in the recently updated Diagnostic ...

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