Sex

Is sex safe after a heart attack? Study finds most doctors don’t offer advice

December 16, 2014

Only 12 percent of women and 19 percent of men get advice from their doctors about resuming sex after a heart attack, according to a new study by Stacy Lindau, MD, and Rupa Mehta Sanghani, MD. [Read more]

Like Father Like Son, Even In Song

June 20, 2012

Kids learn a lot of things from their dads: how to play catch, how to shave, how to drive. In many cases, it’s obvious that sons have even learned how to talk from their father. Though their voices may be different, the words they use or their [Read more]

A Healthy Sex Life After a Heart Attack

May 10, 2012

by Tiffani Washington Whether it’s from a movie, celebrity hearsay or some other largely fictional account, most of us can recall a tale of someone experiencing a heart attack in the throes of passion. In reality, only about 1 percent of all [Read more]

Sexual Taboos, Racial Disparities and the HPV Vaccine

April 25, 2012

By Matt Wood The human papillomavirus (HPV) is a strikingly common sexually transmitted disease associated with cervical cancer. More than 25 percent of women ages 14-59 are infected with HPV, but it gained greater attention in the United States in [Read more]

What We Don’t Talk about When We Don’t Talk about Sex

March 26, 2012

By Tiffani Washington Chances are you don’t spend much time, if any, sharing the intimate details of your sex life with your doctor. Though the topic is difficult to avoid when walking past a newsstand or watching any given hour of primetime [Read more]

(NOT) Playing Games with Sexual Health

March 8, 2012

By Dianna Douglas Maybe you’re the type of person to see a tiny nonsensical phrase in the credits of a movie and actually dig into it online. Be careful—you might find yourself sucked into a mystery story. Over the course of a week, you get [Read more]

Sleep and the Male Sex Life

June 9, 2011

By Dianna Douglas More research practically begging people to get a good night’s sleep has come out of the sleep labs at the University of Chicago. Eve Van Cauter and Rachel Leproult have discovered that a week of inadequate sleep means less [Read more]

Our Pilot Podcast: SMAHC, Sex, and Celiac

February 23, 2011

We are pleased to announce a new way to keep up with research news from the University of Chicago Medical Center, in the form of a regular audio podcast. Because we are all about evolution at ScienceLife, we will start by posting the pilot episode [Read more]

Sex and the Female Cancer Survivor

February 14, 2011

By Dianna Douglas If your oncologist is worried about your sex life, you’re probably a man. Stacy Lindau, associate professor of obstetrics/gynecology and geriatrics, has been researching how often women get help for sexual problems after [Read more]

Using Fear to Flirt: The “Scary Movie Effect”

January 18, 2011

The Friday the 13th and Nightmare on Elm Street movies aren’t typically thought of as mating strategies. But putting on a scary movie is a trick as old as drive-in theaters for encouraging one’s date to jump in fright and snuggle in just [Read more]