Archive for the 'Sexual Health / STDs' Category


FDA Warns Consumers To Avoid Man Up Now Capsules

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration is warning consumers not to use Man Up Now capsules, marketed as a dietary supplement for sexual enhancement, because they contain a variation of an active drug ingredient found in Viagra that can dangerously lower blood pressure…


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FDA Warns Consumers To Avoid Magic Power Coffee

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration is warning consumers that Magic Power Coffee, an instant coffee product marketed as a dietary supplement for sexual enhancement, contains an active drug ingredient that can dangerously lower blood pressure. Consumers who have Magic Power Coffee should stop using it immediately…


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Rise Of Sexual Predators In Oil And Gas Boomtowns Highlights Social Problems Of Large Scale Energy Projects

Research into the social and environmental effects on communities that are economically dependent on oil and gas industries has revealed “social dysfunction and biological impoverishment…


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Abstinence-Only Advocates See Senate Reform Bill As Last Hope For Federal Funding

Abstinence-only advocates are relying on the Senate version of health reform legislation (HR 3590) for federal funding after the fiscal year 2010 budget did not include money for the programs, HealthLeaders Media reports. The Senate reform bill includes a provision that would allocate $50 million to states to fund abstinence-only curriculums…


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Also In Global Health News: Museveni On Uganda Anti-Gay Bill; Zambia, India On Collaboration; Media Examines Water Issues; Southern Sudan Conflict

Pres. Museveni Comments On Uganda’s Anti-Gay Legislation The Associated Press reports that Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni has said that the anti-gay bill to be considered late next month or early March by the country’s parliament “is too harsh and [he] has encouraged his ruling National Resistance Movement Party to overturn the death sentence provision…


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UNFPA Report Highlights Relationship Between Family Planning, Women’s Health And Climate Change

“Providing access to contraception for 215 million women, mainly in developing countries, would help to stabilize population growth and significantly reduce the effects of climate change,” according to a report released Wednesday by the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA), Nature News reports (Gilbert, 11/18).


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FDA Warns Consumers On Sexual Enhancement Products

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration is warning consumers that Stiff Nights, a product marketed as a dietary supplement for sexual enhancement, contains an ingredient that can dangerously lower blood pressure and is illegal. Over the past several years, the FDA has found


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Family Planning A Major Environmental Impact

Some people who are serious about wanting to reduce their “carbon footprint” on the Earth have one choice available to them that may yield a large long-term benefit - have one less child.


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