FRANKFURT (Reuters) - A once-daily pill developed by Germany's Boehringer Ingelheim increased female sex drive in late-stage trials, putting the group in the frame to launch the first non-hormonal treatment for women with low libido.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - American squeamishness about talking about sex has helped keep common sexually transmitted infections far too common, especially among vulnerable teens, U.S. researchers reported Monday.

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Buenos Aires marriage license is a first for same-sex couples in Latin America. Two men were granted a marriage license in Argentina's capital on Monday, breaking ground in a country and region where laws ban gay marriage.

Latin America's first gay marriage will be held on World AIDS Day on December 1, the Argentine couple, who are both HIV positive, said Monday.

Millions of couples, retirees will have to repay some of Obama tax credit. WASHINGTON ? More than 15 million taxpayers may owe the government $250 or more because of how the IRS last spring set up President Barack Obama's tax break that was designed to help consumers spend the U.S. economy out of recession.

Greeting card artist Addie Downs needs some color in her life. The 30-something recluse works from home. She only ventures out to swim at the gym or visit her brain-injured brother at an assisted-living center. Her love life: a series of bad Internet dates. So when Addie's childhood best friend, Valerie Adler, a self-absorbed Chicago weather reporter, suddenly shows up on her doorstep one night, Addie's life gets a much needed jolt. The reunion of these women after a misunderstanding in high school is the story behind Jennifer Weiner's seventh novel, ``Best Friends Forever.'' The author of ``Good in Bed'' and ``In Her Shoes'' delivers another heart-warming and humorous tale that mines familiar themes from previous works. Among them: two women who are opposites yet share a complicated bond, the search for love, loss of family, and the enduring power of friendship. But in Addie's case, there's an added twist - the reappearance of her former friend who has a dried blood stain on her sleev

Playwright, wife, mother takes on blooming technology, science and marriage in Broadway debut. "How extraordinary," Catherine Givings observes. "It looks like a farming tool. Where do you put it?"

"How extraordinary," Catherine Givings observes. "It looks like a farming tool. Where do you put it?"

Austria's government agreed a new law Tuesday allowing civil partnerships for homosexual couples, although ceremonies at the civil registry's office will still be banned.

House Democrats on the Education & Labor Committee appear to be united in favor of ENDA. House Democrats on the Education & Labor Committee appear to be united in favor of passage of the Employment Non-Discrimination Act (ENDA), a bill that would outlaw employment discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation and gender identity. The committee has scheduled a November 18 final markup of the legislation where members will decide whether the bill reaches the House floor for a final vote this session. Democrats control the committee with 30 members, while Republicans remain in the minority with 19. All but three Democratic members are co-sponsors of the legislation. Those three members also appear likely to vote in favor of the legislation introduced in June by openly gay Representative Barney Frank, a Democrat from Massachusetts. Nevada's Dina Titus along with Jason Altmire from Pennsylvania and Marcia Fudge from Ohio previously voted in favor of the Hate Crimes Prevention Act, the f

A German orchestra announced plans on Tuesday to play a concert in a brothel in a novel effort to bring classical music "out of the concert hall and to where people are."

Rising Canadian star Ryan Reynolds is getting in the know after signing up for romantic comedy "TMI," entertainment industry press reported Tuesday.

Rising Canadian star Ryan Reynolds is getting in the know after signing up for romantic comedy "TMI," entertainment industry press reported Tuesday.

Same-sex couples say 'no legitimate' reason for excluding them from feds marriage definition. Gay married couples suing the government over a federal law that doesn't recognize same-sex unions say there is "no legitimate or plausible" reason for having a federal definition of marriage that excludes gay couples.

Government, Cendant Corp. could collect billions under ex-chairman Forbes' new divorce decree. The federal government might get to collect billions of dollars in court-ordered restitution under a new divorce decree between imprisoned former Cendant Corp. chairman Walter Forbes and his wife of 27 years.

A preliminary report commissioned by the nation's Roman Catholic bishops on the roots of the clergy sex abuse scandal found no evidence that gay priests are more likely than heterosexual clergy to molest children, the lead authors of the study said Tuesday.

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A drug that failed to fight the blues could be the female answer to the little blue pill Viagra, the lead North American investigator analysing tests of the drug said Tuesday.

A drug that failed to fight the blues could be the female answer to the little blue pill Viagra, the lead North American investigator analysing tests of the drug said Tuesday.