Posts Tagged ‘ contraception ’

Bring Issue Of Sexual Health Into The Open

Jun 25th, 2008 | By admin | Category: Health

THE RECENT alarming events at Gloucester High School should be a wake-up call about the precarious sexual health of our nation’s youth.
Despite our country’s wealth and educational resources, the United States leads all industrialized Western nations in rates of teenage pregnancy and sexually transmitted diseases. This epidemic is fueled by inaccurate sexual information, lack of [...]



School Health Clinics Could Reduce Pregnancy, Infection

Jun 12th, 2008 | By admin | Category: Health

Young people are more likely to use sexual health services if they can access them at schools, according to research by the University of the West of England. A pilot scheme offering drop-in sexual health clinics in Bristol schools has successfully accessed ‘hard to reach’ groups including boys and vulnerable young people who would not [...]



Ted Turner Churches Fight Malaria

Apr 1st, 2008 | By admin | Category: Opinion

Turner now says he does not consider himself agnostic or atheist, as he had sometimes described himself previously. He prays for sick friends because “it doesn’t hurt,” he said, and maintains several churches on his properties for employees and others who live nearby.”As I get older, you know, I get more, you know, more tolerant,” [...]



Girls as young as 14 seeking abortions

Mar 26th, 2008 | By admin | Category: Information

Some are on their third abortion, Auckland University associate professor Felicity Goodyear Smith says.
There are Korean, Japanese, Thai and Vietnamese, but Chinese women predominate.
The numbers have dropped slightly in the past few years, possibly because fewer Asian women are choosing to study in New Zealand, schools are employing nurses and sex education and health promoters, [...]



Mills suffered miscarriage with McCartney

Mar 26th, 2008 | By admin | Category: Culture

Heather Mills suffered a miscarriage while married to Sir Paul
McCartney.
The Beatles legend, who must pay his ex-wife %26#163;24.3 million
in their divorce settlement, revealed in his High Court battle that
Heather had a miscarriage in the first year of their marriage.
Paul, who has a four-year-old daughter Beatrice with Heather,
told the court: “We stopped using contraception the night [...]