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A Dallas evangelical church is standing by its decision to have an over 100-person choir sing without masks during a Sunday service attended by Vice President Mike Pence. The choir of First Baptist Dallas, a Southern Baptist megachurch led by President Donald Trump’s close evangelical ally Pastor Robert Jeffress, performed during “Celebrate Freedom Sunday,” a […]
Being a reproductive health writer, I obviously have no qualms about all things pregnancy, periods, and sex. Much of that is thanks to my loving (and very open) Mom. When I, the first of my four sisters to get my period, began bleeding, our Mom started the tradition of “period gifts.” She got me a […]
[unable to retrieve full-text content] We've been having issues during sex from the get go. He says that the condom makes it difficult for him to orgasm. He also has a psychological block as well, which he think is caused by the condom. So the last time we had sex, he brought up the idea […]
The Supreme Court delivered a blow to Louisiana’s anti-abortion movement on Monday with a ruling on the first major abortion case it has heard under President Donald Trump. June Medical Services v. Russo concerned a Louisiana law that sought to ban doctors from performing abortions unless they had admitting privileges at a local hospital, which […]
Government employees of the small municipality of Guysborough, Nova Scotia, have worked half the week in the office and half the week at home for the last few months in order to reduce contact with each other and limit the spread of the coronavirus. Now, as the municipality plans to fully reopen its offices to […]
Johns Hopkins University reported on Sunday night that at least 500,000 people have now died of the coronavirus, a somber milestone as cases continue to surge throughout the United States and officials warn the pandemic is far from over. Over the weekend, worldwide coronavirus infections hit the 10 million mark. Infection rates in the U.S. remain […]
I get literally zero pleasure from penetrative sex. I know that it’s common for women to get more pleasure and orgasms from focus on the clit, but I’m wondering if it’s normal to get nothing at all out of PIV or other penetration. With a vibrator I’ve tried hard to feel something, anything good at […]
Dr. Tom Frieden, the former director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, said the recent surge in coronavirus cases across parts of the country is the result of the virus’s spreading, not increased testing, as President Donald Trump has argued. “As a doctor, a scientist, an epidemiologist, I can tell you with 100% […]
Thanks to COVID-19, a salon is not someplace that many of us have been recently. Instead, we’ve cut our own hair, done our own nails, and shaped our own brows. And now that salons are opening up again, some people may be relieved to have these tasks in the hands of true professionals again. But […]
It is impossible to declare that Black lives matter without reiterating the fact that Black trans lives matter. While much of the public conversation about police violence tends to overemphasize cisgender Black men, Black liberation isn’t possible unless all Black lives are valued and protected. More specifically, our society must reckon with the ways that […]
Donald Trump’s campaign removed thousands of stickers on arena seats encouraging social distancing before the president’s rally last week in Tulsa, Oklahoma, Billboard and The Washington Post reported. The “Do Not Sit Here Please!” stickers were intended to help stem the spread of COVID-19 cases, which were spiking in the city at the time of the […]
President Donald Trump on Saturday promised a strong new health care plan for America — at some point in the future — just over a day after his Justice Department called on the Supreme Court in a brief to kill Obamacare and leave at least 23 million Americans without health insurance in the middle of […]
So I’ve had a normal period up until I was about 15 years old. For some odd reason I didn’t have a period for a month then I would have 1 for a month. I wasn’t sexually active at the time. My doctor put me on tri lo estarylla and was diagnosed with anemia. Things […]
CHICAGO (Reuters) – Scientists are only starting to grasp the vast array of health problems caused by the novel coronavirus, some of which may have lingering effects on patients and health systems for years to come, according to doctors and infectious disease experts. Besides the respiratory issues that leave patients gasping for breath, the […]
Since the very beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic, a growing number of conspiracy theories about the virus’ origins, effects, and cure have appealed to an anxious audience looking for answers. While some conspiracy theories can be harmless, they’ve also been associated with radicalization of fringe groups. And, in the case of the new coronavirus, they […]