This week wraps up STD Awareness Month, an annual observance to encourage discussion of sexual health and routine screening for STDs for those who may be at risk.

Are you “out” to the health-care providers in your life? If you’re a patient at our primary-care practice at Mazzoni Center Family and Community Medicine, 809 Locust St.

Imagine a treatment that would reverse skin aging, whiten teeth and improve one’s sense of taste, sense of smell and personal odor.

On World AIDS Day, Dec.

The holidays can be a stressful time for LGBTQ people and their families, but there are several strategies that you can use to help reduce stress and enjoy a happy holiday this year.

Since the start of the school year, no fewer than six young people have taken their lives after enduring homophobic and transphobic bullying in their schools.

Another summer gone.

With Valentine’s Day just around the corner, this is a good time to make sure that hearts and flowers are the only “gifts” you give to your sexual partner(s) on this annual lover’s holiday.

Well, if you’re reading this article, you’ve made it through part one of the holiday “pressure cooker” already! Congratulations! One down, two more big ones to go!

Despite the onslaught of advertising, television, film and other media imploring us to “be happy” during the holiday season, for many of us, this is decidedly not “the most wonderful time of the year.

Every year around this time, we doctors and other healthcare providers are flooded with questions about “the flu,” and this year is no exception.