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 [...]

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 [...]

Health professionals have stressed the need to promote health education at federal, state and local government levels.
They made the call in a communiqué issued at the end of the first National Conference on Health Promotion and Education (HPE)in Abuja.
The communiqué stressed the need to make advocacy a major tool for making HPE a priority.
Education It [...]

Women who stop smoking can enjoy major health benefits within five years, but it can take decades to correct respiratory damage and lower their risk of lung cancer, researchers reported on Tuesday.
Those who kicked the habit had a 13 per cent reduction in the risk of death from all causes including heart and vascular problems [...]

Family Health Insurance Vaccinations are a childhood ritual and provide vital protection against diseases like measles, mumps, rubella and polio, which can be extremely dangerous for young children. But a report, issued today by the Centers for Disease Control and Preve ntion, found an alarming 28 percent of toddlers have not been vaccinated according to [...]

Zinc acetate lozenges taken within 24 hours of developing symptoms of the common cold reduce the duration and severity of symptoms, according to a report in The Journal of Infectious Diseases.
Previous studies of zinc treatment for common cold symptoms have yielded conflicting results Health, the authors explain.
Dr Ananda S Prasad from Wayne State University [...]

Drinking a lot of water is claimed to be helpful for everything from clearing toxins and keeping organs in tip-top shape to keeping weight off and improving skin tone. At best, however, the evidence to back up these claims is weak, according to a new scientific review published in the Journal of the American Society [...]

%26quot;We hope our study provides a tool for better treatments of neurological diseases, diagnosis, prognosis during therapy, and improved delivery of therapeutic agents to the brain,%26quot; said Philip Liu of Harvard, one of the researchers involved in the study. Liu also said that more research is necessary to determine exactly how these gene probes reach [...]

However, new research by scientists at the Universities of Cambridge and Exeter suggests that menopause is an adaptation to minimize reproductive competition between generations of females in the same family unit.
Even in ‘natural fertility’ human societies (i.e., those without access to modern medicine or technology) women typically survive for many years after they have ceased [...]

The scientists caution that the discovery does not suggest the presence of chronic disease, nor does it support extended use of antibiotics to treat Lyme disease in humans. Their findings are reported in the March issue of the journal Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy.
However, they say, the results of this study do set the stage for [...]