A team of researchers has announced a major new advance in understanding how our genetic information eventually translates into functional proteins -- one of the building blocks of human life. The ...

Public health messaging that drives stigma around pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP), a medication that can reduce HIV risk by up to 99%, appears to play a role in uptake of the medication. While the ...

If so, it would imply that public health in general was a higher funding priority in more anti-promiscuity states. To test this prediction, I analyzed the relationship between states’ per capita ...

Though promiscuity may be risky behavior for humans, it's healthy for honeybees: Queen honeybees who indulge in sexual surfeits with multiple drones produce more disease-resistant colonies than ...

With oral and long-acting PrEP options expanding in Nigeria, experts urge HIV-negative people at risk of HIV exposure to consider available prevention choices, stressing that PrEP is not a drug for ...

Differences in the number of sexual partners (i.e., mating system) have the potential to exert a strong influence on the bacterial communities present in reproductive structures like the vagina.

For far too long, women have been seen as secondary to men under the patriarchal rule of human society. Yet, humanity's existence has been a minor blip in the history of the Earth, where females are ...

As the world reflects on health milestones this April, medical experts have emphasized that a cervical cancer diagnosis is not a death sentence, nor is it a badge of promiscuity. In a significant move ...

A team of researchers at the University of Massachusetts Amherst has announced a major new advance in understanding how our genetic information eventually translates into functional proteins—one of ...

Sex is one of those things that nearly everyone has an opinion about. Although people are generally hesitant to talk about their own sex lives, ask them what they think about what others are doing ...