Around 10 percent of women experience significant pain during sexual intercourse. But few women tell their partners about their pain, so few men know.

TMVII spreads through direct skin-to-skin contact, including sexual contact, and can cause severe and persistent rashes.

A severely neglected guinea pig rescued by Ramapo-Bergen Animal Refuge in Oakland was found suffering from extensive medical ...

A young girl was at home doing a handstand when her mother noticed something unusual -- a second, tiny opening just behind her anus.

Introduction Perianal suppurations have an incidence of 1–2:10,000 inhabitants per year and represent about 5% of proctology consultations, more frequently in males, being rare in childhood. Although ...

OBJECTIVE: Treatment of perianal abscesses requires prompt surgical drainage and antimicrobial therapy. However, we should encourage the selective use of antimicrobial agents on a case-by-case basis, ...

A subareolar abscess is a lump that forms on the breast. This lump can be painful and include swelling. The bump is a collection of pus. Subareolar abscesses can be painful. They can make your breast ...

In women with Crohn disease and prior perianal surgery, there was no significant difference between vaginal delivery and c-section in terms of hospital-diagnosed infections, outpatient antibiotic ...

Jon Stewart couldn’t help but(t) crack during a ridiculously cheeky conversation with Paul Rudd about the perineum. Monday night’s episode of The Daily Show began with Stewart jokingly threatening to ...

When Maranda Nyborg started feeling under the weather, she didn't think anything of it. It was October, and she usually caught something as the seasons changed. Nyborg, a Division I student athlete at ...

Postpartum pain occurs after a woman gives birth and can have several causes. Oftentimes, when a woman gives birth, she either tears her perineum or her doctor must make a cut in it to widen the ...