Abstinence-only education — encouraging adolescents to wait until marriage for sex — is making a comeback under President Trump. In a marked departure from the previous administration, conservatives at the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) are putting an emphasis on abstinence to reduce teen pregnancy rates. The problem with this is that it …
You’ve started to notice you cry at the drop of a hat, your boyfriend is driving you insane, you can’t focus on your school work/work and you feel like screaming at every person who remotely rubs you the wrong way… you assume it has to be because of your birth control! Maybe not. Medical studies show …
As a single girl living in Los Angeles, it seems as if my girlfriends are always telling me about a new dating app. Dating apps have completely changed the online dating game that was once dominated by website-based companies such as Match.com and eHarmony. Each app has its own gimmick modified a bit from the …
Dr. Pari discusses the signs, symptoms and facts about gonorrhea and chlamydia that you need to know.
It is Sunday morning and the euphoria of Saturday night’s escapades starts to wear off as the reality of the new dawn sets in. You Had Unprotected Sex. You then begin to frantically look around the room for your clothes so that you can make a run for it and go call your girlfriends to …
I am an advocate of the birth control pill and believe it is easy to use and has relatively low side effects, but it only works if you remember to take it! If you can’t remember to take a pill daily and need something effective long- term contraception options such as an IUD or a …
As a single girl living in Los Angeles it seems as if my girlfriends are telling me about a new dating app monthly. Dating apps have completely changed the online dating game that was once dominated by website based companies such as, Match.com and EHarmony. Each app has its own gimmick modified a bit from …
The World Health Organization published a new study stating that that 3709 million people (range: 3440–3878 million) aged 0–49 years had herpes simplex virus 1 infection in 2012 (67%), with highest prevalence in Africa, South-East Asia and Western Pacific. I saw a plethora of articles mentioning this study this past week. The problem lies in …