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A birth control double standard
In the uproar about making the morning-after contraceptive known as Plan B available to our daughters, there has been no similar outcry about condoms and our sons. Anyone of any age can walk into a drugstore — as well as most grocery and big-box...
Tags: Health Treatments, Family Planning, Standards, Plan B (drug), Food and Drug Administration
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Plan B pill age change a big risk, official says
Alamogordo Daily News, N.M.The Director of the local Pregnancy Help Center spoke about the health and social risks she felt could be issues now that the Food and Drug Administration has approved selling the emergency contraceptive known as Plan B One-Step over the counter to...Tags: Walmart, Health Treatments, Family, Plan B (drug), Abortion
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Condom vending machines coming to LC
The News & Advance, Lynchburg, Va.Condom vending machines will return to Lynchburg College in the fall. Although condoms always are available to students for free through the school's health center and resident advisors in the dorms, more than a decade has passed since the school has...Tags: Boston College, Health and Safety at School, George Washington University, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Vanderbilt University
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Getting to responsible sexual health education
As Illinois lawmakers prepare to vote on comprehensive sex education for Illinois' youth (House Bill 2675), they should consider the experience of a young woman who was victimized twice — once by a rapist and again by the inaccurate, ideologically...
Tags: Health Treatments, Family Planning, U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Education, Sexual Health
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Condoms for prisoners and porn stars debated by Legislature
Los Angeles Daily NewsTwo bills are pending in the state Legislature that promote and expand the use of condoms by two very different groups of people -- porn stars and prisoners -- each based on programs that are already in place in Los Angeles. One would require actors...Tags: Research, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Prisons, Cinema Industry, Diseases and Illnesses
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Abortion in the classrooms
The Free Press, Kinston, N.C.A bill filed in February to include abortion education in students' health care studies advanced through the North Carolina Senate on Wednesday. Under Health Curriculum/Preterm Birth, North Carolina public schools health instructors will be required...Tags: Health and Safety at School, Students, HIV, Medical Research, Teaching and Learning
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Chastity the only answer for STDs
The American Academy of Pediatrics recommends Plan B for all sexually active adolescents, giving tacit approval to promiscuous lifestyles. The Centers for Disease Control estimates that there are 700,000 new cases of gonorrhea in the U.S. annually, with...Tags: Medical Specialization, Diamond, Korean War (1950-1953), American Academy of Pediatrics, Chlamydia
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Genesis Community Health Center expands into Delray Beach
After four years treating and serving patients in Boynton Beach, Genesis Community Health Center, a nonprofit agency providing health care to the under served and uninsured in Palm Beach County, will add a new satellite location in Delray Beach, within...Tags: North Palm Beach, High Blood Pressure, HIV, Diabetes, Behavioral Conditions
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Area's first human-milk depot opens Tuesday at Florida Hospital
For some babies, the liquid is life saving. Now more will be able to receive human breast milk when the area's first milk depot — a place where nursing moms can drop off donated breast milk for other women's infants — opens Tuesday at...
Tags: Nursing, Medical Specialization, Hospitals and Clinics, HIV, Winter Park
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Gonorrhea, Chlamydia, Syphilis, HIV, AIDS?
Highlands Today, Sebring, Fla.Highlands County reported 31 HIV cases from 2009-11. That's 10.5 per 100,000. If there's good news in that report, it's that the Florida rate is 27.7. "Those are newly reported cases," said Barbara Moore, an RN with Highlands County Health Department....Tags: Palm Beach County, Demographics, Syphilis, Chlamydia , U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
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Bill touts future risks of abortion
The News & ObserverStudents would have to be taught that abortion increases the risk for subsequent premature births, under a bill a Senate committee approved Wednesday. There are conflicting studies about whether that is true. But the N.C. Child Fatality Task Force...Tags: Health and Safety at School, U.S. House Committee on the Judiciary, Diseases and Illnesses, Nursing Homes, Elections
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Lehigh County 9th in U.S. in newborn deaths
When the international child welfare organization Save The Children began crunching the data for its latest report on mortality rates of newborn babies, it came up with a locally stunning finding: Of the largest counties in the United States, Lehigh...
Tags: Health Organizations, Lehigh County, Demographics, Health and Medical Professionals, Premature Birth
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