A new study reveals that HIV is affects transgender women in far greater numbers than any other group and also makes it painfully clear that the transgender community needs to be further included in the HIV conversation.

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A new study out of New York University reveals that mental health burdens are playing a key role in the spread of HIV among young black and Latino men.  The study finds that the "burdens of racism, homophobia, depression, and post-traumatic stress disorder contribute to the HIV epidemic among both groups.

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It's been a week rife with reminders that it's still no time to be complacent about HIV/AIDS, and a new report from the CDC backs that up. Details follow. 

A new study set to be published early next year finds a direct correlation between big and bare. Details follow. 

It builds on emerging evidence that the "gay gene" might be nothing more than mythology, but new research published in The Quarterly Review of Biology doesn't exactly deliver a death knell to being "born this way." 

Gilead's new four-in-one HIV treatment pill Stribild was listed as an "alternative" regimen to the "preferred" methods of Truvada & Atripla by the FDA in September. But new data covering a two year study being released today shows the once-daily pill is just as effective as the older kids on the block. 

Though the damage has already been done and its effects will be felt for years to come, Mark Regnerus admits that his study isn't really about gay parents. 

In the first study to compare and track the progress over time of high-risk children adopted out of foster care by gay, lesbian, and heterosexual couples, it's been found that children "adopted from foster care by gay parents fare equally in their cognitive and emotional development as those adopted by heterosexual parents."

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The Human Rights Campaign (HRC) has released a new report today that finds that LGBT youth that are out to their immediate family or at school report "higher levels of happiness, optimism, acceptance, and support."

The report came from survey of over 10,000 LGBT-identitified youth. 

Details after the jump!

A study by the American Cancer Society reveals a disparity in HIV death rates between white and minority Americans, specifically for those minority Americans that are less educated. 

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Move over "motion of the ocean"—a new study says the size of the boat might play a bigger role in getting there than we previously thought! 

The new report published in the Journal of Sexual Medicine that'll leave straight and bisexual men anxious after the jump.

Looks like our trips to the doctor for a little "rejuvenation" (botox) may also include a little non-invasive body sculpting thanks to a new injection that may keep us pool party ready year round!

Researchers have found they can burn off excess fat in specific areas of the body by injecting tiny capsules filled with a modified type of heat-producing cell commonly found in animals and babies.

WHATEVER IT TAKES. 

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