Health & Wellness

WASHINGTON, DC – Out2Enroll announced today the formation of an unprecedented nationwide coalition of over 60 national, state, and local LGBTQ and allied organizations committed to educating LGBTQ consumers about the health insurance options available under the Affordable Care Act...

LOS ANGELES, Ca. - Advocates from AIDS Healthcare Foundation (AHF) stepped up efforts to ensure that Gilead Sciences, Inc. be held accountable for promoting off-label use of Truvada for use as pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) to prevent HIV infection. AHF also...

CEO Martin Shkreli earned the world’s wrath when his company Turing Pharmaceuticals purchased the rights to AIDS drug Daraprim and raised the price by over 5,000 percent. Overnight, the cost of each pill skyrocketed from $13.50 to an unreal $750. The drug...

ST. LOUIS, Mo. - This Friday is National HIV/AIDS and Aging Awareness Day. The need for such a day is not lost on those who work directly, or indirectly with persons who live with HIV/AIDS, or in the field of...

WASHINGTON, DC - Today, the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) issued a proposed rule to advance health equity and reduce disparities in health care. The proposed rule, Nondiscrimination in Health Programs and Activities, will assist some of the...

A gay health advocate is calling on the Australian government to shut down hookup sites like Grindr until companies address the drug deals taking part on their services. Jay Morris, 24, is a recovering meth addict who spent years in the...

FULTON, Mo. - Fulton State Hospital has received leader status from PROMO Fund, joining the growing ranks of hospitals across Missouri in updating policies to better serve its lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) patients. In a press release issued today,...

ST. LOUIS, Mo. - The Saint Louis County Department of Health has issued a health advisory to notify healthcare providers about the ocular Syphilis outbreak around the nation. Locally, one case has been confirmed and other possible cases are being...

St. Louis has a new social group designed for HIV-positive, poz-friendly and poz impacted men to meet and socialize. CD4 St. Louis is the St. Louis Chapter of the Chicago-based CD4 Chicago. According to organizers, CD4 is not...

ST. LOUIS, Mo. —St. Louis Effort for AIDS, Planned Parenthood of the St. Louis Region and Southwest Missouri and a number of other assister organizations were successful in securing a favorable ruling from the U.S. Court of Appeals on Friday...

Coordinated Youth and Human Services' Madison County AIDS Program (MadCAP), a Metro East based AIDS Service Organization (ASO), was recently chosen as one of two agencies in Illinois to pilot a rapid syphilis testing program. The test is...

Same-sex couples are a step closer to having their own biological children thanks to breakthrough stem cell research by scientists at Cambridge University and the Weizmann Institute in Israel. The international team of scientists have shown that it is possible...

Need an HIV or STD test in a hurry? As it turns out, there's an app for that. Seriously. The Huffington Post reports that a team led by Samuel K. Sia, associate professor of biomedical engineering at...

LGBT HealthLink, a program of CenterLink; PROMO, Missouri's statewide LGBT advocacy organization; and lawyer Corey Prachniak, today, released the first ever LGBT Healthcare Bill of Rights (HBOR). The bill, in both long form and wallet sized versions, outlines the protections...

On a list that includes Erasure’s Andy Bell and AIDS Memorial Quilt founder Cleve Jones, St. Louis-based activist Aaron Matthew Laxton has been lauded in HIV Plus Magazine’s lineup of the Top 20 Amazing HIV Positive Gay Men of 2014....

CHICAGO, IL — Authors of a new study released last week confirm that cross-sex hormone treatment of transgender adults leads to very few long-term side effects. More than 2000 patients from 15 US and European centers participated in the largest...

A new study conducted by the University of Melbourne in Australia confirms what many LGBT families in the St. Louis region already know - that children of same-sex parents enjoy better levels of health and well being than their peers...

URBANA, Ill. — Lambda Legal on April 15 filed a lawsuit claiming that an Illinois health care services group denied medical care to a transgender woman after she requested hormone replacement therapy. The lawsuit alleges a violation of...

Many in the LGBTQ community have been traumatized by the current political climate, which feels inescapable. International yogi, meditation teacher, and author of the frank and funny forthcoming new book "Sage Sapien: From Karma to Dharma," Johnson Chong offers 5...

Visual AIDS, the only contemporary arts organization fully committed to raising AIDS and HIV awareness through dialogue, art exhibitions and public forums, announces their virtual Day With(out) Art: Transmissions launch event, November 30, as a prelude to World AIDS Day...