ATLANTA - The number of Americans infected by the AIDS virus each year is much higher than the government has been estimating, U.S. health officials reported Sunday, acknowledging that their numbers have understated the level of the epidemic.

The country had roughly 56,300 new HIV infections in 2006 — a dramatic increase from the 40,000 annual estimate used for the last dozen years. The new figure is due to a better blood test and new statistical methods, and not a worsening of the epidemic, officials said.

A quick check of you In Box or Spam box will surely educate you on how male sexual dysfunction is a concern of almost every pharmaceutical company, medical doctor and man in the world. If they are not taking ED pills, they are considering them, or joking about them - but at least they are talking about them and sexual dysfunction in general. Male sexual dysfunction, that is.

Talk of sex can often seem gratuitous. It's all about breast implants and how to please a man and how to stay sexy (read: thin) so he won't run off with the UPS lady. Or it’s just plain old dirty talk.

I realize I haven’t told you much about the prince, otherwise known as the boyfriend. I’m saving details for later, but I will share this. He’s younger, by almost 20 years, 19 to be exact.

That’s significant because it explains why, when he went running out of the house for a solution to my vaginal dryness/personal lubrication problem, the following went through my mind: I hope he does not bring back, a) hot fudge topping, b) whipped cream, c) ice cream, and d) bananas. I know what that boy will do for a hot fudge sundae.

THURSDAY, July 31 (HealthDay News) -- In the past 17 years, there has been an overall decrease in risky sexual behaviors among U.S. teens, a new government study shows.

The rates of having sexual intercourse or multiple sex partners have been dropping, while the use of condoms has been increasing, U.S. health officials reported Thursday.

i have problems reaching orgasm. i have tried everything. ive had to fight for any kind of help, by the way. doctors dont think women really have to have a satisfying sex life like a man does. they always want you to go to counseling. thats a cop out. are there any medicines being tested for women with decreased blood flow to the genital area for instance? it seems as if no one is interested. women have a higher rate of sexual dysfunction than men do and no considers us worth helping. i and alot of women like me are frustrated and it shows in our relationships. donna

SUNDAY, July 27 (HealthDay News) -- Researchers say they have found a way to prevent preeclampsia in mice that might eventually help pregnant women with this potentially deadly disorder.

In a report published in the July 27 issue of Nature Medicine, the University of Texas-Houston Medical School researchers said they found an important pathway to the development of preeclampsia and managed to block it by injecting the mice with certain human autoantibodies that have been found in women with the condition.

I spray a liquid substance every time I'm penetrated. And it's no small amount. It's a lot! I even go to the bathroom before I have sex. I've been to a urologist years ago who said my bladder was functioning fine. I hate this messy response! Also, I very rarely have orgasms in general. I can sometimes have them by myself using a vibrator, but that's about it. I think I feel guilty that it takes too long it my partner is giving me oral sex. I feel like a dysfunctional sexual partner. I feel bad....

Last time we talked, I mentioned my embarrassing new problem: vaginal dryness, and how I came to realize the dry-dry wasn’t going bye-bye. In fact, it was getting worse. I had to take action. I had to, in short, find the perfect personal lubricant.
I turned to my girlfriends but one after another, they’d clam up, pretending like it was Niagara Falls every time they had sex. Jody, over lunch one day, reached for my hand across the table and squeezed it hard.

A drug that turned around the sex lives of some older men has apparently proven in a small trial to also help women on antidepressants who experience sexual dysfunction, and EmpowHer.com’s sexual health expert Dr. Irwin Goldstein, director of sexual medicine at Alvarado Hospital in San Diego, is front and center discussing the issue.