Category: Sexual Health / STDs

Palatin Technologies, Inc. (Amex: PTN) announced positive results from an at home Phase 2 trial evaluating bremelanotide for the treatment of female sexual arousal disorder (FSAD). The objective of this exploratory study was to identify potential efficacy endpoints for future studies and to evaluate the safety of intranasal (IN) bremelanotide, relative to placebo and under the conditions of home use, for the treatment of FSAD in pre and postmenopausal women.

A new UK survey released indicates that stress and health problems are affecting the nation’s sexual relationships and people are avoiding discussing these ‘taboo’ problems1, potentially putting their long-term health at risk. These findings coincide with a series of ‘Sex, Health and Relationship Roadshow’ meetings (see below) organised for Primary Care Practitioners (PCPs) to discuss intimate health problems and tackle the issues raised by this survey.

The Gay and Lesbian Medical Association (GLMA) announced they will conduct a national survey to study physicians’ attitudes, knowledge and beliefs about lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) patients’ unique health care needs. The AMA is supporting this effort with a $100,000 grant to GLMA. The survey, of a random sample of U.S. physicians and a survey of LGBT-identified physicians, will be fielded in early 2008.

Emergency contraception only is available at 15 of the 38 teen health clinics operated by the New York City Health and Hospitals Corporation despite a campaign that aimed to increase accessibility, according to a report released Sunday by the city’s Public Advocate Betsy Gotbaum, the

The film and television series “M*A*S*H*” featured the song “Suicide is Painless,” but new research refutes that idea and indicates that being victimized because of sexual orientation is a chief risk factor for suicidal behavior among gay, lesbian and bisexual college students.The study is the first to explore the link between victimization and suicidal behavior among college students.

Female genital cutting — sometimes referred to as female circumcision or female genital mutilation — recently has become a “ferocious focus of debate in Egypt,” and, “quite suddenly, forces opposing genital cutting … are pressing back as never before,” the International Herald Tribune reports (Slackman, International Herald Tribune, 9/19).