Teenage Birthrate Declining in US Both Abstinence and Awareness Called for to Maintain the Trend

Teenage birthrate in US has dropped to a 65-year low. According to a report released recently by the Centers for Disease Control and Preventions National Center for Health Statistics, the birth rate for teenagers declined 2 percent in 2005, falling to 40.4 births per 1,000 women aged 15-19 ye...

Harm of Abstinence-Only Programs in U.S. and Abroad Subject of Panel Discussion at Two Maine College Campuses

...ograms. The events come in the wake of staggering data released recently by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) showing that the teen birthrate in the United States jumped 3% from 2005 to 2006 after more than 15 years of steady decline. In addition, the U.S. Congress is currently in the midst ...

Polio Cases on Rise in India: Indian Government

... and few cases have been reported from central UP", according to Ramadoss. He citied reasons like high density population, poor sanitation, high birthrate along with high rate of enteroviruses that resulted in lower vaccine efficacy. "These factors, coupled with the fact the quality of the suppleme...

Worry on the lowering of the already low birth-rate in Japan.

... to a Health Ministry official quoted by the Kyodo news agency, "That many women in the second baby boomer generation have few children could mean the birthrate will fall at a faster rate and the population will further decline." Japan's fertility rate fell to a post-war low of 1.2888 in 2004 from 1.2905...

Birthrate in Medical Dictionary

Fertility

...le Female Infertility Treatment IUI ICSI IVF Treatment at IVF Centres India fertility n. The condition, quality, or degree of being fertile. The birthrate of a population. ... century, writers adapted fertility ' to describe creative ... FCI is one of the world's leading infertility treatment cl...