http://medicalxpress.com/ en-us Medical Xpress internet news portal provides the latest news on Health and Medicine. An HIV prevention trial that pre-dates the shift to antiretroviral (ARV)-based approaches is nonetheless helping to answer some of the most relevant and topical questions the field is facing today. More than three years after reporting the primary results of HPTN 035, one of the last trials of the so-called first generation microbicides, researchers from the National Institutes of Health-funded Microbicide Trials Network (MTN) reported two new sets of findings gleaned from the study's trove of statistical data and laboratory specimens. The results of both analyses were presented at the International Microbicides Conference (M2012). The meeting, which started Sunday, April 15 and ends tomorrow, April 18, is being held in Sydney. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-04-microbicide-trials-network-hiv.html HIV & AIDS Tue, 17 Apr 2012 10:15:51 EST news253876530 (AP) -- Teen births fell again in the United States in 2010 with the highest rate once more in Mississippi, according to a new government report. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-04-teen-births-highest-nh-lowest.html Health Tue, 10 Apr 2012 09:39:34 EST news253269569 A district in Indonesia is handing out cash to civil servants who volunteer for vasectomies -- but the initiative has upset women who fear their sterilised husbands will be more likely to have affairs. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-04-indonesian-district-cash-vasectomies.html Other Wed, 04 Apr 2012 08:16:21 EST news252746164 (HealthDay) -- While most pharmacies report having emergency contraception (EC) in stock, misinformation regarding what age women can take it without a prescription is common, according to a study published online March 26 in Pediatrics. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-03-emergency-contraception-access-common.html Health Mon, 26 Mar 2012 16:46:22 EST news251999171 A study has revealed that injectable contraceptives that are widely used around the world influence the risk of developing several types of cancer. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-03-reveals-contraceptive-cancer.html Cancer Wed, 07 Mar 2012 08:50:01 EST news250331426 Seven US states have filed a lawsuit challenging a requirement in President Barack Obama's 2010 health care law that religious organizations provide insurance covering birth control. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-02-states-obama-birth.html Other Fri, 24 Feb 2012 04:40:10 EST news249280803 Half of the young adult Latino men and women responding to a survey in rural Oregon acknowledge not using regular effective contraception – despite expressing a desire to avoid pregnancy, according to a new Oregon State University study. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-02-contraceptive-young-latinos-sexual-decision-making.html Health Wed, 15 Feb 2012 10:10:01 EST news248521862 Researchers from Boston Medical Center (BMC) and Boston University School of Medicine (BUSM) have found that in low-income neighborhoods, misinformation about access to emergency contraception is a common occurrence. These findings appear as a research letter in the Dec. 19 on-line issue of the Journal of the American Medical Association. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-12-misinformation-emergency-contraception-common-low-income.html Health Mon, 19 Dec 2011 16:07:39 EST news243533251 Women's health advocates said Tuesday they will sue the US government for allegedly violating the constitutional rights of young teens by denying them over-the-counter access to emergency contraception. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-12-court-fray-morning-after-pill.html Medications Tue, 13 Dec 2011 11:40:01 EST news242998156 (AP) -- President Barack Obama on Thursday endorsed but said he did not steer his administration's decision to halt the over-the-counter sale of an anti-pregnancy drug to girls under 17, saying it was common sense to keep a morning-after pill away for children who may misuse it. Citing his own daughters, he said: "I think most parents would probably feel the same way." http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-12-obama-morning-after-pill-decision-common.html Medications Thu, 08 Dec 2011 13:05:41 EST news242571929 It's the morning after and the controversy over how to sell emergency contraception still looms. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-12-block-otc-morning-after-pill-outrage.html Medications Thu, 08 Dec 2011 05:40:01 EST news242540839 US regulators on Wednesday rejected a drug company's request to make emergency contraception available over the counter to consumers of all ages instead of by prescription to those under 17. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-12-restrictions-morning-after-pill-sales.html Medications Wed, 07 Dec 2011 12:49:23 EST news242484543 US regulators are considering whether to grant a drug company's request to make emergency contraception available over the counter to people of all ages instead of by prescription. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-12-mulls-easier-access-emergency-contraception.html Medications Tue, 06 Dec 2011 19:20:01 EST news242419563 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 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 Today's hormonal forms of birth control are vastly different from those used by earlier generations of women, both with lower levels of hormones and with different means of delivery (not just a pill), but many of the same problems related to women's pleasure remain. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-10-mother-birth.html Health Mon, 31 Oct 2011 01:05:10 EST news239241902 Women using hormonal contraception --such as a birth control pill or a shot like Depo-Provera – are at double the risk of acquiring HIV, and HIV-infected women who use hormonal contraception have twice the risk of transmitting the virus to their HIV-uninfected male partners, according to a University of Washington-led study in Africa of nearly 3,800 couples. The study was published in The Lancet Infectious Diseases. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-10-lancet-hormonal-contraception-hiv.html HIV & AIDS Mon, 03 Oct 2011 18:52:49 EST news236886732 The number of young people having unprotected sex in the West has risen sharply over the past two years, a survey said Monday, with health professionals concerned the safe sex message is falling on deaf ears. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-09-young-people-unprotected-sex.html Health Mon, 26 Sep 2011 09:18:28 EST news236247497 Repeat abortions are significantly reduced if women use long-acting reversible contraceptive methods such as intrauterine devices (IUDs) after an abortion. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-07-long-acting-contraception-methods-abortions.html Health Mon, 25 Jul 2011 09:10:22 EST news230803803 (Medical Xpress) -- How people choose to consume resources and use contraception influences their responses to climate change, according to a team of psychologists. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-06-culture-people-response-climate.html Psychology & Psychiatry Wed, 29 Jun 2011 10:38:38 EST news228562693 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 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. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-05-true-wont-safer-lover.html Psychology & Psychiatry Tue, 17 May 2011 13:03:19 EST news224856179 (PhysOrg.com) -- Two new drug safety studies conducted by researchers at Boston University School of Medicine (BUSM) provide strong evidence that women taking oral contraception with drospirenone have an increased risk of nonfatal venous thromboembolism, or blood clots, compared to women taking oral contraception with levonorgestrel. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-04-blood-clots-oral-contraception-drospirenone.html Medications Thu, 21 Apr 2011 18:56:27 EST news222630963