• Thursday, August 20, 2009 - 8:57pm By Tim McElreavy
    Have you ever wondered what sex looks like on the inside? In 1999, Dr. Pek van Andel of the University Hospital in Groningen, the Netherlands, and colleages recruited 8 heterosexual couples who agreed to have penetrative vaginal sex under magnetic...
  • Friday, August 14, 2009 - 2:08pm By Tim McElreavy
    In a paper published this week in the British Medical Journal, researchers have concluded that the strictures of anti-prostitution laws increase violence against female sex workers. Kate Shannon of the University of British Columbia and her...
  • Wednesday, July 29, 2009 - 10:43am By Tim McElreavy
    The British Medical Journal has published a performance evaluation of a simple urine test for detecting chlamydia in men and found the test to be effective. Currently, chlamydia is diagnosed using an expensive and complex test that takes several...
  • Thursday, July 9, 2009 - 10:59am By Tim McElreavy
    It is difficult to conceive how a £5.9 million ($9.5 million) government program to reduce the number of teen pregnancies among disadvantaged girls could result in doubling the number of girls conceiving, but it is obviously now the topic for...
  • Thursday, April 9, 2009 - 6:42pm By Tim McElreavy
    Agence-France Presse reports that selective abortions have left China with 32 million more men than women, an imbalance that will last for decades according to a paper published by the British Medical Journal (BMJ). In most countries, males slightly...