Relationships matter for sex after menopause
Changes in relationship status or negative feelings about partners both have significant impacts on women’s sex lives after menopause, and have a stronger influence than hormone levels, researchers from Australia and Europe have found.
These findings demonstrate “the powerful effects of psychosocial factors on female sexual function,” write Dr. Lorraine Dennerstein of the University of Melbourne and her colleagues in the journal Fertility and Sterility.
Croatia confronts sexual abuse of children
Croatia is coming to terms with a type of crime it never addressed under communism - the sexual abuse of children.
Several investigations undertaken by prosecutors in recent weeks show child abuse and paedophilia may be more widespread than the staunchly Roman Catholic country cares to admit.
Officials ordered inspections of state orphanages earlier this month after two girls in a state-run home in the coastal town of Pula said a cook tried to rape them.
Antidepressant efficacy may be overblown
Antidepressants, for the most part, do not provide meaningful benefit, two investigators in the UK argue in a report in the British Medical Journal this week, having reviewed published medical evidence on antidepressant efficacy.
Most people with depression are often initially prescribed an antidepressant by their doctor. Prescriptions for these medications have risen dramatically in the last decade.
In an interview with Reuters Health, Dr. Joanna Moncrieff, an author of the report, said, “I do not think there is such a thing as a drug that will specifically relieve depression.
