The following summarizes selected women's health related videos. GRITtv Explores Reproductive Coercion: GRITtv recently examined dating violence and reproductive coercion among teenagers...

New Jersey's family planning clinics are reducing hours and eliminating services after Gov. Chris Christie (R) on Friday vetoed a bill (S 2139) to restore $7.5 million in funding for women's health services that was cut from the state budget, the Philadelphia Inquirer reports...

The Washington, D.C., health department has launched a campaign to promote use of the female condom as a way to help curb the spread of HIV in the city, the AP/Atlanta Journal-Constitution reports. A 2009 study found that about 3% of the city's population over age 12 is HIV-positive...

Women who experience sexual dysfunction or female orgasm disorder do not have enough treatments or medications to address the issue, according to a report published recently in the Journal of Sexual Medicine, Live Science/MSNBC reports. According to Live Science/MSNBC, one out of every four women has trouble reaching orgasm during sex...

Richard Graham, Conservative MP for Gloucester, will be visiting HIV and sexual health charity Terrence Higgins Trust (THT) on Friday 30 July at 11.00am. The centre provides a dedicated range of sexual health services, including one-hour HIV testing, one to one counselling, and support groups for people living with HIV...

The New York Times examines a set of questions raised by news out of the International AIDS Conference-AIDS 2010 last week that a microbicide gel containing the antiretroviral (ARV) tenofovir used by women before and after sex helped reduce their risk of HIV infection by 39 percent. "After more than a dozen microbicide failures, [the news of the trial] was a huge relief ...

Hormonal contraceptives change the ways captive ring-tailed lemurs relate to one another both socially and sexually, according to a Duke University study that combined analyses of hormones, genes, scent chemicals and behavior. Contraception alters the chemical cues these scent-reliant animals use to determine genetic fitness, relatedness and individuality...

Following results of a trial in which a microbicide gel lowered a woman's risk of HIV by 39%, health experts are considering how to make the treatment more effective and what its applications might be, the New York Times reports (McNeil, New York Times, 7/26)...

The human papillomavirus increasingly is being identified as the cause of head and neck cancers, prompting some physicians to guess that the genesis of the cancers might be oral sex, the Raleigh News & Observer reports. David Brizel, an oncologist at Duke University who specializes in head and neck cancers, said, "A third of head and neck cancers we see nowadays are [related to] HPV...

The following summarizes selected women's health-related blog entries...

Almost two-thirds of females attending a general urology practice reported that they suffered from sexual dysfunction, according to a paper in the August issue of BJUI. Dysfunction rose with age in all categories except orgasm, with more than half of women aged from 18 to 30 reporting orgasm problems, significantly higher than women aged 31 to 54...

DIATHERIX Laboratories, adds a Sexually Transmitted Disease (STD) panel and Herpes Simplex Virus (HSV) panel to its line up of highly sensitive, rapid response diagnostic panels. The HSV panel identifies herpes simplex viruses 1 and 2 and the STD panel identifies 10 sexually transmitted diseases simultaneously, many of which cannot be accurately identified by current testing methods...

Interest groups are seeking to influence the Obama administration's decision on whether to include birth control on the supplemental list of women's preventive services that health insurers will be required to cover without out-of-pocket costs for the consumer, CQ Weekly reports (Ethridge, CQ Weekly, 7/26)...

Anthony Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases at NIH, hailed the development of a microbicidal gel that has shown promise in combating HIV infection in clinical tests, but said that scientists "must continue to pursue a range of HIV prevention modalitites," CQ HealthBeat reports...

The following summarizes selected women's health-related blog entries. ~ "The Obama Administration Takes a Page From Stupak's Playbook," Allie Bohm, ACLU's Blog of Rights: On July 14, "the Obama administration inexplicably announced that it is bringing back Stupak in the high-risk pools required by the law," Bohm writes...

The following summarizes selected women's health related videos. NARAL N.Y. Pressures State Sens.: NARAL Pro-Choice New York President Kelli Conlin appeared on NY 1 to discuss why the group refuses to endorse any incumbent state senators until the chamber acts on the Reproductive Health Act (A 11484, S 5808), which would codify the protections of Roe v. Wade in New York...

A shared decision-making process would assist doctors and parents who are facing the extraordinarily complex, challenging and controversial choices presented when infants are born with genetic or anatomical anomalies in sexual development and are being considered for elective corrective surgery, a new research paper suggests...

Adult circumcision has been proposed as a possible HIV prevention strategy for gay men, but a new study by the University of Pittsburgh Graduate School of Public Health presented at the XVIII International AIDS Conference suggests it would have a very small effect on reducing HIV incidence in the United States...

The criminalization of men who have sex with men (MSM) and transgender people in Asia is holding back efforts to contain HIV/AIDS in the region, according to a report presented Wednesday by the U.N. Development Program (UNDP) and Asia Pacific Coalition on Male Sexual Health at the International AIDS Conference-AIDS 2010, VOA News reports...

The following summarizes selected women's health related videos. NARAL N.Y. Pressures State Sens.: NARAL Pro-Choice New York President Kelli Conlin appeared on NY 1 to discuss why the group refuses to endorse any incumbent state senators until the chamber acts on the Reproductive Health Act (A 11484, S 5808), which would codify the protections of Roe v. Wade in New York...