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You are lazy. One of the most interesting new forms of birth control is the Implanon implant. According to Planned Parenthood’s website, there are many other benefits of Implanon, like the ability to become pregnant quickly soon after you stop using Implanon. The negative side effects of Implanon...
Center for Research in Reproduction and Contraception, Department of Medicine, University of Washington School of Medicine, Seattle, WA. Despite significant advances in contraceptive options for women over the last 50 years, world population continues to grow rapidly. Scientists and activists...
Where's the Religious Right? Christian conservatives and their core issues were everywhere in 2000 and 2004 during George W. Bush's two runs to the White House. This election cycle, as the Politico reports, the religious right is feeling left out. “In 2004, there was great emphasis on marriage,...
Close it down. Implode it. Sow the ground with salt - just make certain that once we kill the UN, it stays dead: The United Nations will send nearly a quarter of a million condoms into cyclone-hit Myanmar to help needy survivors with no access to contraceptives, a UN official ...
Last October, President Bush appointed Susan Orr to oversee federal family planning programs at the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS). Orr, who previously directed HHS child welfare programs, was touted by the administration as “highly qualified.” But after less than a year on the...
750,000 teens will become pregnant this year, with 3 in 10 girls getting pregnant at least once before they hit the age of 20. Just under half of teen moms ever graduate from high school - of which only 1.5% earn a college degree - and 80% of unmarried teenage mothers end up on welfare. These fun...
A new program aimed at reducing the rate of new HIV infections and child mortality and improving reproductive and sexual health for Cambodians begins May 6 thanks to the joint efforts of the U.S. Agency for International Development and the British Department for International Development (DFID)....
In an epidemiological study, Tufts University researchers identified trends of vitamin B6 status in a sample of the United States population based on measures of plasma pyridoxal 5'- phosphate (PLP) levels in the bloodstream. Plasma PLP is the indicator used by the federal government to set the...
Teen pregnancy rates are up and abstinence only programs are not working. There was a study of birth and marriage records from the turn of the 20th century that showed that 30 percent to 50 percent of all first children were conceived before the wedding. Among the results documented by Akerlof...
Prices for birth control have been rising, as have cries of protest Many college students are up in arms about the federal Deficit Reduction Act of 2005, which had a purported goal to increase federal student loan packages. However, here's the catch: By changing the way pharmaceutical companies...
