A monthlong regimen known as post-exposure prophylaxis treatment (pep)-usually given to health care workers who have been stuck with needles-was available at local clinics and emergency rooms to people who had recently been exposed to hiv. The side effects of debilitating nausea and fatigue were a small price to pay for its potential benefits: A ( Read more... )

Since I have a-friggin'-nother one...

Way back here (and in the comments), the topic of how much better Spicy Hot V8 seemed to make my head feel came up ( Read more... )

A possible attempt to enstate a gag order within the US similar to what we have outside the US -- I'm not seeing enough backup on this to be sure about what's going on, and I'm on every reproductive rights list known to maude. My suspicion is that they're trying it (because they're constantly trying this crap), but that it'll come up against the ( Read more... )

It's not surprising that the study of sexual physiology, with a few notable exceptions, did not get rolling in earnest until the 1970s. William Masters and Virginia Johnson said of their field in the late 1950s, "...science and scientist continue to be governed by fear--fear of public opinion, ... fear of religious intolerance, fear of political ( Read more... )

Y'all know I'm anti-circ (also anti-any other non-consensual permanent body modification), and that I've been really displeased with the recent pro-circ arguments based on HIV infection (hell, if we cut the whole thing off, no one gets infected, right?? And free mastectomies for all the girls!), so I was pleased to see this today.

OK, finally finished the organization of the sex/gender/body/etc shelves, and I need to document this so I have a reference. The organization says a lot about what I see as related, I think. I'm going to give one representative book for each category ( Read more... )

HPV Test More Accurate Than Pap Test at Detecting Cervical ( Read more... )

Protesting is good for you, say psychologists ( Read more... )

A friend emailed me the following link ( Read more... )

So, I'm currently reading Fads and Fallacies in the Name of Science, published in 1952, second edition in 1957. I'd ordered it because it is discussed in Sagan's The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark as one of his early influences, and I was curious to check it out. It's not perfect, but it's really pretty good, and amusing, ( Read more... )