They don't care at all. An innovative women's health initiative is heading toward oblivion over a legislative impasse between abortion rights opponents and supporters even though the program has nothing to do with abortions. Unless renewed by law, the 5-year-old Medicaid Women's Health Program will expire in December, ending contraceptive care and disease screening for [...] Whether sex education focuses only on abstinence or teaches students about contraception and other topics as well, it all shares one main message: Wait. In abstinence-only, students are exhorted to wait for sex until they're married. In "comprehensive" or "abstinence-plus," the idea is to delay sexual relations until . . . later. "The underlying assumption is that delay reduces sexual risk-taking" - and with it unwanted pregnancies and sexually transmitted diseases, says University of South Florida psychologist Marina A. Bornovalova... Whether sex education focuses only on abstinence or teaches students about contraception and other topics as well, it all shares one main message: wait. In abstinence-only, students are exhorted to wait for sex until they're married. In "comprehensive" or "abstinence-plus," the idea is to delay sexual relations until later. "The underlying assumption is that delay reduces sexual risk-taking" -- and with it unwanted pregnancies and sexually transmitted diseases -- says a psychologist involved with the research. This assumption has now been challenged. Critical new research has found that lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) youth who experience high levels of school victimization in middle and high school report impaired health and mental health in young adulthood, including depression, suicide attempts that require medical care, sexually transmitted diseases (STDs) and risk for HIV. This is the first known study to examine the relationship between school victimization during adolescence - specifically related to sexual orientation and gender identity - with multiple dimensions of young adult health and adjustment... According to new research Black women are being tested more for sexually transmitted diseases than women of other races: > When young women visit the emergency room complaining of symptoms that mirror those of a sexually transmitted disease, many aren't tested Sexually transmitted diseases can be cured, but not with unproven products, FDA says ANCHORAGE, Alaska (Reuters) - Alaska has the nation's highest rate of Chlamydia and second-highest rate of gonorrhea as the sexually transmitted diseases spread in rural areas, according to the Alaska Division of Public Health. MPs pass first reading of Nadine Dorries' bill to bring abstinence classes for girls aged 13 to 16 by 67 to 61 Teenage girls must be given lessons in how to say no to sex, a Conservative MP has told parliament – and MPs have backed her call. Speaking in the Commons on Wednesday, Nadine Dorries, the MP for Mid Bedfordshire, proposed a bill that would result in classes in abstinence, but only for girls aged 13 to 16. She said society was "saturated in sex" and teenagers should be taught that it was as "cool" to say no to sex as to know how to put a condom on their boyfriend. MPs voted 67 to 61, majority six, in favour of allowing Dorries to bring forward her bill. It will receive its second reading in January, though it is unlikely to become law without government support. The latest data from the Office for National Statistics show teenage pregnancies are at their lowest rate since the early 1980s. The under-18 conception rate for 2009 was 38.3 conceptions per 1,000 women aged 15 to 17. This represents a fall of 5.9% compared with 40.7 conceptions per 1,000 ... WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. health officials are considering including tests for sexually transmitted diseases like syphilis and hepatitis B for the elderly and disabled covered under Medicare. The ... Feds are cracking down on unapproved drugs for sexually transmitted diseases. Federal health officials are cracking down on bogus pills and supplements that their makers claim will cure or prevent sexually transmitted diseases like HIV, herpes and genital warts. U.S. regulators announced Tuesday that they were cracking down on unproven treatments being sold for sexually transmitted diseases (STDs). The Food and Drug Administration and the Federal Trade Commission announced steps to remove products from the market that make "unproven claims to treat, cure, and prevent" STDS. The FDA and FTC said they had sent "multiple letters" to companies selling the products warning them that the products violate federal law. Read full article >> WASHINGTON (AP) -- Federal health officials are cracking down on bogus pills and supplements that their makers claim will cure sexually transmitted diseases like HIV, herpes and genital warts.... Gen-Probe Inc., the tester of sexually transmitted diseases that jumped 18 percent on speculation it will be sold, may still be worth $1.3 billion more in a takeover by Novartis AG or Life Technologies Corp. Glee star Matthew Morrison spent his early years too scared to have sex after his midwife father told him horror stories of sexually transmitted diseases (Stds) and teenage pregnancies. Morrison's dad often regaled the star with tales from the... Two federal agencies are cracking down on bogus claims made by companies that tout their products as treatments, cures, or preventive medications for sexually transmitted diseases such as herpes, genital warts, and HIV, the virus that causes AIDS.
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Tuesday, May 24, 2011
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