Health
Teen birth rate falls in US
The birth rate among US teenagers has continued to decline, but health authorities said Tuesday that even greater strides could be made if more teens used long-acting forms of contraception.
Apr 7, 2015
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Sexually Transmitted Diseases
Health
Domestic violence deters contraception
Domestic violence takes many forms. The control of a woman's reproductive choices by her partner is one of them. A major study published in PLOS One, led by McGill PhD student Lauren Maxwell, showed that women who are abused ...
Mar 31, 2015
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Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
Predicting your risk of infection
Research publishing this week in PLOS Computational Biology analyses the livestock trade in Italy and sexual encounters in a Brazilian prostitution service to find a correlation between loyalty and infection risk.
Mar 12, 2015
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HIV & AIDS
Web app prompts important sexual health testing
A personalized web app designed to encourage young men at risk for sexually transmitted diseases to go for testing has proven successful in a small trial conducted in Southeast Michigan.
Feb 24, 2015
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Pediatrics
Book reveals teens' questions about sex and relationships, then provides the answers
A new book co-authored by a Virginia Commonwealth University professor reveals the frank questions teenagers have about sex and relationships, and answers them all with factual, medically based responses.
Feb 11, 2015
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Health
High student ignorance about sexual health issues increases multiple risks
University students lack education in sexual and reproductive health by the time they start university. This is one of the results of doctoral thesis "Teaching strategies in Nursing for addressing sexuality, sexual health ...
Feb 5, 2015
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HIV & AIDS
Two male porn performers test positive for HIV
Two adult film actors have contracted HIV, with one most likely infecting the other during unprotected sex at a film shoot in Nevada where testing was less stringent than industry standards, officials said.
Dec 30, 2014
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HIV & AIDS
Alert issued after likely HIV porn set infection
California public health officials issued an alert Monday after finding "very strong evidence" that an adult film actor became infected with HIV as a result of unprotected sex on an out-of-state film shoot.
Dec 30, 2014
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Health
Appeals court upholds condom use in LA porn films
A Los Angeles County ordinance requiring actors in pornographic films to use condoms does not violate the porn industry's First Amendment rights of free expression, a federal appeals court ruled Monday.
Dec 15, 2014
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Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
Did Columbus really bring syphilis to Europe?
(HealthDay)—A new study is intensifying the debate over whether Christopher Columbus or his crews brought syphilis from the New World to Europe, setting the stage for hundreds of years of illness and death.
Dec 3, 2014
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