Fears of promiscuity pose barrier to cervical cancer vaccinations

The public's concerns about costs and increased promiscuity among teenagers appear to be hindering use of a vaccine against the human papilloma virus (HPV) to prevent life-threatening diseases, according to a study by researchers at Yale School of Public Health. There is an ongoing public heal...

U.S. District Court Finds the FDA's Actions on Plan B(R) Tainted by Politics

...hours of sexual intercourse (the sooner a woman takes it, the more effective it is). Critics have argued that increased access to Plan B would lead to promiscuity or other risky health behaviors but these concerns are misplaced. Real world experience with EC and other contraceptives show that reducing barriers t...

Study Finds More Than One in Two Women are Too Embarrassed to Discuss Vaginal Discomfort With Their Doctors

...encing vaginal discomfort is normal for every woman. It is a lack of knowledge about this topic that leads women to equate bad hygiene (50 percent) or promiscuity (9 percent) with vaginal discomfort. It's important for women to realize there are many reasons for experiencing itching, burning, discharge and somet...

ICYMI: YouTube Censors American Life League

...sor the truth about Planned Parenthood." The Planned Parenthood campaigns are criticized by many parents as a faulty argument that only encourages promiscuity and unhealthy relationships that often times lead to the tragedy of an abortion. The e-mail sent to American Life League by Google-sponsored YouTu...

Gadrasil Could Prove Effective in Men too

...that grade-school aged girls be inoculated has caused a stir among social conservatives in the U.S. who argue that such a vaccine would only encourage promiscuity and a false sense of invulnerability to sexual disease. But it appears to be popular among parents of young girls, according to surveys, and at l...

Useful Parasites

...ing of the lot, is turning the male into female. Even causing the female to reproduce without the male, due to this there is an increase in the female promiscuity and male collapse. Many a times there has been instances of a decrease in the female eggs produced. Weeks and his team studied the fruit fly D...

Useful Parasites

...ing of the lot, is turning the male into female. Even causing the female to reproduce without the male, due to this there is an increase in the female promiscuity and male collapse. Many a times there has been instances of a decrease in the female eggs produced. Weeks and his team studied the fruit fly Dro...

Why Public Should Really Know About HPV?

... transmitted infections; or, the vaccine protects against cervical cancer, sexually transmitted infections and may or may not lead to increased sexual promiscuity among those vaccinated. The survey was then given to gauge intentions toward vaccination. It was completed by 635 adults, 49 percent of whom were wome...

Controversial Vaccine Raises Fury of the Church

... introduction of the drug. A spokesman for the Catholic Church said: "Our concern would be that this vaccine is seen as giving the green light to promiscuity on the grounds that the vaccine protects young people from developing the virus that is the main cause of cervical cancer." However the rates of ...

AIDS Control Programme to Focus on District Level

...ntly home to 5.21 million HIV-infected people and 60 percent of them live in rural areas. "It is not that rural folks are not a victim of sexual promiscuity but it is the bridging population that is contributing to the spread of HIV in these areas," said Rao, who is also the additional secretary of ministr...

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NYC Department of Health's 'Get Some NYC Condoms' Sends Wrong Message and Misuses Tax Dollars, says MIM President Bob Peters

...Americans do not want to view endless ads for 'erectile dysfunction' products on TV, so most New Yorkers do not want to see endless ads for condomized promiscuity on TV and in the subway cars they and their children must ride. "The ads are also misleading, because they imply that condoms protect against STDs, ...

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Sex education

... about... Sex education is literally what it says. ... Sex education classes put children at serious risk by teaching them sexual liberty, promiscuity and unsafe, unhealthy sexual practicesi The Healthcare NewsLadder - providing the progressive online community with a ... Tags: reproductive healt...

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Queen bee promiscuity boosts hive health

Though promiscuity may be risky behavior for humans, it's healthy for honeybees: Queen honeybees who indulge in sexual surfeits with multiple drones produce more disease-resistant colonies than monogamous monarchs. According to a new Cornell study published in the Jan. 7 issue of the Proceedings ...

The more promiscuous the female, the speedier the sperm

... Female promiscuity appears to have triggered changes in the type of s... to females mating with multiple males." Female promiscuity is a major problem for males because the sperm fro...(Africa). After examining the relationship between promiscuity and sperm quality the researchers used computer si...

Australian frog species chooses not to put eggs in 1 basket

...ehaviour because males generally invest less in reproduction. This level of promiscuity is a new record among vertebrates and certainly supports the old adage of n... basket," Dr Byrne said. "Our study advances our understanding of female promiscuity by being the first to show that promiscuous females can safeguard against c...

New evidence for female control in reproduction

...n-vitro fertilization (IVF), cloning, and animal breeding. It is also a windfall for evolutionary biology, providing a possible explanation for female promiscuity in the animal kingdom, he adds. In a first-of-its-kind study scheduled for ACS Journal of Proteome Research, Fazelis international scientific team ...

Philandering female felines forgo fidelity

... study by the Wildlife Conservation Society and the Zoological Society of London has found that many cheetah litters have more than one father. While promiscuity in the animal kingdom is generally a male thing, researchers for the Wildlife Conservation Society and the Zoological Society of London (ZSL) have fou...

Male-killing bacteria makes female butterflies more promiscuous

...including the butterfly, actually increases female promiscuity and male fatigue. The team found that when the m..."Contrary to expectation, we also find that female promiscuity actually rises when male numbers are reduced. Grea... (Spermatophore) per copulation to find how female promiscuity was affected by the sex ratio. They found that the...

What does the public really know about HPV?

... transmitted infections; or, the vaccine protects against cervical cancer, sexually transmitted infections and may or may not lead to increased sexual promiscuity among those vaccinated. The survey was then given to gauge intentions toward vaccination. It was completed by 635 adults, 49 percent of whom were wo...