 | | | | Sexual / Reproductive Health Headlines | | | (Associated Press) -- A woman's chance of having a child with autism increase substantially as she ages, but the risk may be less for older dads than previously suggested, a new study analyzing more than 5 million births found.
CHICAGO (AP) -- An experimental abstinence-only program without a moralistic tone can delay teens from having sex, a provocative study found.
HANOI, Vietnam (AP) -- Nearly half of all births in China are delivered by cesarean section, the world's highest rate according to a survey by the World Health Organization, which warned Tuesday that a boom in unnecessary surgeries is jeopardizing women's health.
WASHINGTON (AP) -- They're the overlooked viruses: Hepatitis B and C together infect three to five times more Americans than the AIDS virus does, and most don't know it.
VIENNA (AP) -- Austria's health ministry says the contraceptive morning-after pill is now available in pharmacies without a prescription.
INDIANAPOLIS (AP) -- Indiana University researchers say half of all urban teenage girls may get one or more sexually transmitted infections within two years of becoming sexually active.
(USA TODAY) -- Women across the USA have been shocked and angered by new advice to get fewer mammograms. Yet experts have been debating the risks of mammograms and other cancer screenings for more than a decade.
(McClatchy-Tribune Information Services) -- Concerned that American men may be embracing the same kind of misguided sex-hormone use that brought calamity to women, the government is funding a national study to see whether older men with low testosterone benefit from boosting it.
SHANGHAI (AP) -- The virus that causes AIDS is now spreading fastest in China through heterosexual sex, a trend demanding new strategies to stave off a rebound in the epidemic after years of progress in containing it, a United Nations report said.
WASHINGTON (AP) -- The White House is on a collision course with Catholic bishops in an intractable dispute over abortion that could blow up the fragile political coalition behind President Barack Obama's health care overhaul.
WASHINGTON (AP)-- First mammograms. Now -- in an apparent coincidence -- Pap smears.
ATLANTA (AP) - Sexually spread diseases continue to rise, with reported chlamydia cases setting yet another record in 2008, government health officials said Monday.
NEW YORK (AP) -- Male factory workers in China who got very high doses of a chemical that's been widely used in hard plastic bottles had high rates of sexual problems, researchers reported Wednesday.
GENEVA (AP) -- In its first study of women's health around the globe, the World Health Organization said Monday that the AIDS virus is the leading cause of death and disease among women between the ages of 15 and 44.
ATLANTA (AP) -- Premature births, often due to poor care of low-income pregnant women, are the main reason the U.S. infant mortality rate is higher than in most European countries, a government report said Tuesday.
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Hoping to schedule your baby's birth while your mother's in town, or before the doctor goes on vacation? Labor is becoming less of a late-night surprise, but some hospitals are starting to tighten the rules for elective deliveries - because some babies are being delivered too early.
MANILA (The New York Times News Service) -- Gina Judilla already had three children the first time she tried to terminate a pregnancy. "I jumped down the stairs, hoping that would cause a miscarriage," she said. The fetus survived and is now an 8-year-old boy.
ATLANTA (AP) -- A second kind of vaccine against cervical cancer may be added to the recommended list for girls and young women after a federal advisory panel voted Wednesday to support it.
CHICAGO (AP) -- A sperm donor passed on a potentially deadly genetic heart condition to nine of his 24 children, including one who died at age 2 from heart failure, according to a medical journal report.
TAMPA (The New York Times News Service) -- When Geri Bell lost her breasts to cancer, she joked that at least she wouldn't need a bra. When she lost her hair to chemotherapy, she'd say how her wig made it so easy to get ready in the morning.
LONDON (AP)-- Giving contraceptives to people in developing countries could help fight climate change by slowing population growth, experts said Friday.
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Drugmaker Merck likely will face U.S. competition for its vaccine Gardasil, after federal experts recommended rival GlaxoSmithKline's Cervarix also be approved to prevent the virus that causes most cervical cancers.
DENVER (The New York Times News Service) -- A 70-year-old real estate broker from Spokane, Wash., has been indicted for making threats against a Boulder abortion provider, the first federal prosecution of abortion threats since the slaying of a Kansas doctor.
ATLANTA (AP) -- Circumcision, which has helped prevent AIDS among heterosexual men in Africa, doesn't help protect gay men from the virus, according to the largest U.S. study to look at the question.
NEW YORK (AP) -- Scientists say they've found a big reason why treatment for chronic hepatitis C infection works better for white patients than for African-Americans. It's a tiny variation in a gene.
ROME (AP) -- Italy's health and drugs authorities have approved the use of the abortion drug RU486, drawing immediate protests by the Vatican.
(McClatchy-Tribune Information Services) -- Increases in parental unemployment and teen pregnancy are making life more difficult for children in Pennsylvania, which is ranked 23rd in a national report on child well-being released Tuesday.
(McClatchy-Tribune Information Services) -- The largest-ever trial for a cervical cancer vaccine shows that the drug Cervarix protects women from five of the most common cancercausing viruses, a University of New Mexico researcher said Tuesday.
ATLANTA (AP) -- In a perverse twist of medical fate, Farrah Fawcett has become the poster girl for anal cancer, a rare disease often linked to a sexually transmitted virus.
LONDON (AP) -- For men with fertility problems, some doctors are prescribing a very conventional way to have a baby: more sex.
(McClatchy-Tribune Information Services) -- Four years ago, after talking to doctors at the Philadelphia VA Medical Center, the Rev. Ricardo Flippin opted for a radiation therapy that would precisely target his prostate cancer and leave nearby organs unharmed.
ATLANTA (The New York Times News Service) -- When he takes the helm of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention on Monday, Dr. Thomas Frieden will bring a solid record of success -- and controversy.
(McClatchy-Tribune Information Services) -- Fake erectile dysfunction (ED) drugs have become increasingly widespread as traders are tapping high demand from Thai consumers via the internet, say international drugmakers.
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