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Oral Sex and Anal Sex More Common in Teens Today

...rvical cancer. Although condoms and other forms of contraception can be used to decrease the health risks of oral sex few teens use them. Erbelding warns that, ‘Clinicians need to routinely ask their adolescent and young adult patients about the full range of sexual behaviors and educate young people in general ...

Morning-After Pill At The Local Pharmacy Could Prevent Unwanted Pregnancies

... Health Organization suggest that taking emergency contraception up to 24 hours after unprotected sex prevents 95 p...ught the morning-after pill because they had had a contraception failure – either the condom had split or they had missed taking the pill. "The UK currently has th...

Lancet Urges To Allow Emergency Contraception Drug As An OTC

...er pressure as it has been urged to make emergency contraception drug as an over-the counter drug//. Andrew von Eschenbach, acting Commissioner of the FDA has been urged to take an independent, non-biased decision on Barr Pharmaceuticals Inc's bid to sell its morning after pill or Plan B without a medical prescr...

Higher-Dose Copper IUDs Provide Better Pregnancy Protection

...e IUD is the most widely used reversible method of contraception in the world. Most IUDs consist of a plastic frame wrapped with copper wire, although the shape of the frame and the amount of copper wire vary among models. The reviewers analyzed 34 randomized controlled trials that compared the effectiveness and...

The IPU Want Morning After Pills To Be Made Available Over The Counter

...orning after pill should never be the only form of contraception used. It has been reported that before the approval of Levonelle in Ireland in 2001, doctors and clinicians, at their discretion, gave around four high dose oestrogen pills to women, which had to be taken within 72 hours of having sex and often mad...

Bush Supports Restriction to ‘Morning–After’ Pll

Restricted access to emergency contraception for minors has been supported by President George ...mmissioner has supported nonprescription emergency contraception sales for adults which earned him the opposition of some conservatives. Bush said, "I believe that P...

Government Failed to Prevent Rising Teen Pregnancies

...admits that she was mistaken. She says, "Emergency contraception has been heralded as the solution to rising aborti...tegy - which has been very lucrative for emergency contraception manufacturers - but it was wrong from the start." A Department of Health spokesman said: "Our poli...

Increasing awareness of sexually transmitted infection chlamydia

...help raise awareness of all long acting methods of contraception with guidelines of suitability for every sexually active person. MST...

Male Contraceptive Drug - Non Hormonal Alternative

... Edinburgh, who has been involved in the hormonal contraception research in the UK, says that these findings are promising , and could lead to an attractive option. MAL...

‘Comprehensive Sex Education’ Favored Against ‘Abstinence-Only’ Progams

...or comprehensive, programs that seek to educate on contraception and protection against sexually transmitted disease as well as stress the importance of abstinence. Such programs are far more successful and may even inspire a postponement of the first sexual experience, and may contribute towards bringing down the...

Pope in Dilemma: To ban condoms or not

...ve the Roman Catholic Church's "traditional ban on contraception or shift[ing] to a relative yes-sometimes //policy... his June 2005 speech to African bishops said that contraception is one of many trends contributing to a "breakdown of sexual morality." He added that abstinence and...

Patient Advised to visit Exorcist

A doctor alleged to have advised a patient seeking contraception advice to go and see an exorcist, faces a disciplinary hearing today. // Dr Joyce Pratt, from Birmingham, who works at several London family planning clinics, had allegedly told the woman she 'had something awful inside her' and was under a black ...

Risk-Taking Young Urged To Carry Condoms

...whenever there has been a shift away from hormonal contraception like the pill, towards barrier methods like condoms, rates of unplanned pregnancy have risen as a result.' <BR...

One-Third of Scottish Pregnancies, a Mishap

...ncy. The survey established the need for a regular contraception plan, in place of emergency contraception, to avoi... risks of pregnancy associated with lack of use of contraception or with incorrect or inconsistent use. Emergency contraception is unlikely to make a substantial dif...

Sex Education Not Effective In UK

... which must also include easy access to advice and contraception for young people.” SI...

Now, a Hormone-free Contraceptive Pill for Men

... Currently men who want to take responsibility for contraception have limited choice with their options extending t...y allowing couples to share the responsibility for contraception - a role that traditionally falls on women. John Guillebaud, one of Britain's leading experts on ...

New Drugs Would Help Men to Play an Equal Role in Contraception

...e not propelled out of the penis. This method of contraception is based on the control of schizophrenia and blood pressure, to which researchers claim have chemicals to block male sperms. Presently, researchers are in the process of creating contraceptives for males in the form of implants, patches or injectio...

Contraceptive Use Helps Reduce Rate of US Teen Pregnancy

...ously promote provision of accurate information on contraception and on se xual behavior and relationships, support increased availability and accessibility of contraceptive services and supplies for adolescents, and promote the value of responsible and protective behaviors, including condom and contraceptive use ...

'Prevention, Cultural Changes Must Lead AIDS Battle'

...o-thirds of all AIDS sufferers, FHI estimates that contraception is already preventing about 170,000 unwanted pregnancies annually that would have resulted in HIV-positive infants. The group says that number could be doubled if all women who did not want to become pregnant got the help and tools they needed. On ...

When Teens Actually Want to Become Mothers

...// This can be termed significant, as choices in contraception are made based on this. Out of studies carried out involving 300 adolescents, almost half expressed fears of not getting pregnant. Writing in the journal Obstetrics and Gynecology, Dr Emily White says that the assumption that teenagers do not want ...

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