http://medicalxpress.com/ en-us Medical Xpress internet news portal provides the latest news on Health and Medicine. Don't look for the morning-after pill to move next to the condoms on drugstore shelves right away. But after a fight that's last more than a decade, it appears it really will happen. Backed into a corner by a series of court rulings, the Obama administration has agreed to let the Plan B One-Step brand of emergency contraception sell over the counter to anyone of any age. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-06-otc-morning-after-pill-sales-comingbut.html Medications Tue, 11 Jun 2013 17:52:54 EST news290191969 Using a copper intrauterine device (IUD), or coil, does not exacerbate period pain, reveals a study where researchers from the Sahlgrenska Academy, University of Gothenburg, Sweden, followed 2,100 women for 30 years. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-05-period-pain-worse-copper-iud.html Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes Tue, 07 May 2013 08:36:59 EST news287134612 The U.S. government on Tuesday lowered to 15 the age at which girls can buy the morning-after pill without a prescription and said the emergency contraception no longer has to be kept behind pharmacy counters. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-04-fda-morning-after-pill-over-the-counter.html Medications Tue, 30 Apr 2013 17:44:29 EST news286562662 Ghana is recalling a shipment of 120 million Chinese-made condoms distributed to charities in the country after testing showed that they were riddled with holes and prone to breaking, an official said Tuesday. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-04-ghana-recalls-million-faulty-chinese.html HIV & AIDS Tue, 23 Apr 2013 12:51:02 EST news285940256 New York City this week marked the fifth anniversary of a groundbreaking free condom program that has distributed tens of millions free rubbers, under the racy slogan "NYC Condoms—Get Some!" http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-02-york-years-free-condoms.html Other Sat, 16 Feb 2013 01:50:01 EST news280200105 Parents are more accepting of their teenage daughters using birth control pills than any other form of contraception, including condoms, according to a recent study from UC San Francisco (UCSF). http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-02-parents-teen-girls-birth-pills.html Health Tue, 12 Feb 2013 07:56:40 EST news279878184 (AP)—The U.S. Food and Drug Administration won't take any regulatory action over a vending machine at a Pennsylvania college that dispenses the morning-after pill. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-01-fda-wont-pa-birth-machine.html Health Sat, 26 Jan 2013 05:43:27 EST news278401401 A new condom company, founded by a recent University of Sydney Business School graduate, is offering Australians the opportunity to help "save a life" in Africa each time they have safe sex. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-01-australian-safe-sex-african.html Health Thu, 17 Jan 2013 06:41:10 EST news277627260 Argentina plans to give out 82 million condoms nationwide in 2013 in a campaign against sexually transmitted diseases, including HIV, the health ministry said Friday. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-01-argentina-mln-free-condoms.html HIV & AIDS Fri, 04 Jan 2013 13:20:01 EST news276527407 Combination therapies for AIDS are becoming increasingly effective, but they cannot protect against other sexually transmitted illnesses. It is unsafe for patients taking antiretroviral drugs to stop using condoms. This is one of the findings of research conducted in the Swiss HIV Cohort Study, which is supported by the SNSF. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-11-caution-ever-improving-hiv-drugs.html HIV & AIDS Fri, 30 Nov 2012 10:34:27 EST news273494058 The birth control pill and sterilization are still the most common forms of contraception, but new federal data released Thursday show that long-acting methods are gaining ground while condom use for birth control is declining. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-10-contraceptive-methods-birth-patterns.html Health Fri, 19 Oct 2012 15:20:02 EST news269868517 A drive that would put more condoms in South Africa's classrooms has critics warning it will only stimulate sexual activity, a charge the country's health minister tells AFP is unfounded. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-10-condom-safrican.html Health Fri, 19 Oct 2012 04:40:47 EST news269840438 Young women who start using hormonal contraceptives for birth control often stop using condoms, but a new study in the Journal of Adolescent Health finds that if they later discontinue using hormonal contraceptives, they tend not to resume using condoms. This leaves them open to both unintended pregnancy and sexually transmitted infections (STIs). http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-10-young-women-hormonal-contraceptives-condom.html Health Tue, 09 Oct 2012 09:40:05 EST news268993721 (AP)—The New York City Department of Education is making the morning-after-pill available to high school girls at 13 public schools. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-09-morning-after-pills-nyc-schools.html Medications Mon, 24 Sep 2012 07:26:18 EST news267690311 Reports of several cases of syphilis among porn actors in California has prompted a trade group to call for a temporary halt to shooting in the lucrative US adult film industry. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-08-syphilis-prompts-halt-porn.html Health Thu, 23 Aug 2012 04:54:09 EST news264916438 Study results released today by the HIV Prevention Trials Network (HPTN) show additional benefits of early antiretroviral therapy (ART) in HIV clinical outcomes. Expanded analysis of HPTN 052 study data, presented today at the XIX International AIDS Conference in Washington, D.C., demonstrated that early versus delayed ART showed a trend toward delaying the time to both AIDS and non-AIDS primary events and significantly delayed the time to AIDS events, death and tuberculosis. The overall incidence of clinical events was significantly lower in participants treated in the early therapy arm. The new findings show that immediate ART significantly decreased the incidence of clinical events likely due to reversal of immune suppression. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-07-hptn-results-reveal-additional-benefits.html HIV & AIDS Thu, 26 Jul 2012 16:46:28 EST news262539978 (HealthDay) -- Black teenagers in the United States have become much less sexually active over the past two decades, and those who do have sex appear to be more likely to use condoms, a new survey has found. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-07-survey-big-sexual-black-teens.html Health Tue, 24 Jul 2012 10:20:01 EST news262342421 (AP) -- A pill that has long been used to treat HIV has moved one step closer to becoming the first drug approved to prevent healthy people from becoming infected with the virus that causes AIDS. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-05-fda-favors-drug-hiv.html HIV & AIDS Tue, 08 May 2012 14:48:15 EST news255707287 More US teenagers are postponing sex than in 1995, and hormonal contraceptive use is up among those who are sexually active, said US health authorities on Thursday. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-05-cdc-teen-girls-birth.html Health Thu, 03 May 2012 15:20:02 EST news255274214 A study carried out by fourth year medical students of Universiti Malaysia Sarawak (UNIMAS) has shown that taking contraceptive pill is the most common method for birth control. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-02-pill-birth-malaysia.html Obstetrics & gynaecology Wed, 29 Feb 2012 08:06:55 EST news249725204 Young women whose boyfriends are their primary source of spending money are more likely to report that their boyfriends never use condoms, according to a study in the Journal of Adolescent Health. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-02-girls-boyfriend-money-condoms.html Health Tue, 28 Feb 2012 11:44:47 EST news249651882 The government of Rio de Janeiro state will distribute more than three million condoms free of charge during Brazil's five-day carnival that begins Friday. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-02-rio-million-free-condoms-carnival.html Health Thu, 16 Feb 2012 13:50:02 EST news248621716 (AP) -- Students at a Pennsylvania university can obtain the "morning-after" pill from an unusual source - a vending machine at the campus health center. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-02-pa-college-machine-morning-after-pill.html Health Tue, 07 Feb 2012 13:00:57 EST news247842034 (AP) -- Some condoms burst. Others leaked like sieves. South Africa's leading anti-AIDS group said Tuesday that allegedly faulty condoms are among more than 1.35 million handed out at the African National Congress' 100th birthday party. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-01-south-africa-recalls-million-condoms.html HIV & AIDS Tue, 31 Jan 2012 12:21:18 EST news247234873 British women are being offered free supplies of the emergency "morning-after" contraceptive pill over the Christmas and New Year holidays, the country's leading abortion agency said Tuesday. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-12-british-women-free-contraception-pill.html Health Tue, 06 Dec 2011 06:38:23 EST news242375892 Brazil said Monday its AIDS epidemic was under control, with a 0.61 percent cut in new cases between 2009 and 2010, although a rise among young homosexuals was a cause for concern. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-11-brazil-aids.html HIV & AIDS Tue, 29 Nov 2011 02:20:01 EST news241755032 Use of the contraceptive pill is associated with an increased risk of prostate cancer around the globe, finds research published in BMJ Open. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-11-contraceptive-pill-prostate-cancer-worldwide.html Medications Tue, 15 Nov 2011 03:44:08 EST news240551024 A surprising 80 percent of teenage boys say they are using condoms the first time they have sex, a government survey found in a powerful sign that decades of efforts to change young people's sexual behavior are taking hold. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-10-percent-boys-condoms.html Health Wed, 12 Oct 2011 15:31:51 EST news237652269 (AP) -- The head of the United Nations AIDS program called Sunday for an increase in access to drugs that help treat or prevent the spread of the disease, saying it is "morally wrong" to keep millions of people off lifesaving medication. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-07-aids-conference-rome.html HIV & AIDS Mon, 18 Jul 2011 06:20:01 EST news230187947 Many young women do not want to start taking the contraceptive pill because they are worried that they will put on weight, or come off it because they think that they have gained weight because of it. However, a thesis from the University of Gothenburg, Sweden, has demonstrated that the combined contraceptive pill does not cause weight increase. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-06-pill-weight-gain.html Health Tue, 07 Jun 2011 10:46:22 EST news226662360