Sexual Health

Physicians should be sure to get to the root of irregular periods for optimum health

Men have fewer birth control options, but physicians should still discuss these options

Physicians should open an important dialogue with patients around this aspect of sexual health.

Primary care physicians can help women in menopause treat this common but uncomfortable condition.

Women need support managing the health changes that precede menopause.

Physicians can help reduce cervical cancer by promoting the HPV vaccine.

A matter-of-fact approach works best to discuss the often-uncomfortable topic for patients and physicians.

Lisa Larkin, MD, has started two practices from scratch, directed a university-based women's health center, helped to start a regional consortium for sexual medicine, and survived breast cancer.

Many health experts believe that by knowing whether a patient is lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender or straight, physicians can be more alert to a person’s medical needs and more thoughtful in interactions.