Continuing to limit access to birth control would wreak economic havoc

Subsidized contraception is under attack – and this is the result

California rejects plan to force porn actors to wear condoms, dental dams and goggles

Porn star Ela Darling tells regulators that performers could think for themselves and there was no ‘big daddy porn boss’ telling them what to do

Q&A: The Kentucky lawmaker who wants men to ask wives’ permission to take Viagra

State representative Mary Lou Marzian hopes tongue-in-cheek bill will make her male counterparts reconsider how laws police women’s bodies and sexualities

Guns, car crashes and drugs cut US male life expectancy by a year, research says

Gun injuries alone shorten American men’s lives by more than five months, according to CDC research letter as experts reject ‘paralysis’ on issue

New York governor to ban insurers from funding gay ‘conversion therapy’

Andrew Cuomo to announce executive action against ‘hateful and fundamentally flawed practice’ upon receiving Human Rights Campaign award

Fitbit used to track students’ physical activity at Oral Roberts University

Private school in Tulsa, Oklahoma, says bracelet it uses doesn’t contain GPS tracker but still monitors students at all hours as part of ‘whole person education’

Can smartphone drug trials improve medical care?

A new clinical trial is attempting to track how participants suffering from depression respond to mental health apps

Something for the weekend, sir? The latest in sex tech

You can control everything from your heating to your exercise routine with an app, so why not bluetooth your sex life? Robina Gibb reports on the latest tech from the Sexual Health Expo in Los Angeles

10% of female US college students experienced sexual assault in 2015

New study found that 4% of students had been raped during that academic year and more than 5% had encountered sexual battery

Lumosity fined millions for making false claims about brain health benefits

The Federal Trade Commission also issued a general warning that it is on the lookout for companies cashing in on the popularity of health-related mobile apps