Health
Young women and girls are taking sex-ed into their own hands on YouTube
Sex education in Canadian schools continues to be highly politicized and young people are paying the price.
Mar 03, 2020
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News tagged with sex education
Health
Survey of Canadians' condom use reveals demographic, social trends in protective practices
Researchers at McMaster University have peered into the most intimate moments of sexually active women and men across Canada to ask if they're using condoms, all in an effort to gather data that could inform decisions around ...
Feb 20, 2020
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Both Democrat and Republican likely voters strongly support sex education in schools
Democrats and Republicans disagree on many policies but not on sex education for teenagers, a Rutgers-led national survey finds.
Oct 15, 2019
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Health
Sex education: Why school and parents should work together
There is an ongoing debate in society about sex education. Now a study funded by the Swiss National Science Foundation suggests that the best approach is a combination of parents and school. And that using friends and the ...
Aug 27, 2019
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Robot babies tackling teenage pregnancies in Colombia
"Anthony" cried so hard at night that Susana Ortegon couldn't sleep. The weekend felt like an eternity for the 13-year-old.
Jun 29, 2019
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Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
Why it's hard to stop Ebola spreading—between people and across borders
Ebola has claimed around 1400 lives in the Democratic Republic of Congo, while there are reports that two people have lost their lives in western Uganda. The Conversation Africa's Ozayr Patel asked Janusz Paweska about how ...
Jun 17, 2019
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Health
Around half of 17-year-olds have had sex and they're more responsible than you think
Just under half of year 10 to 12 students have had sex, according to research released today.
Jun 11, 2019
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Pediatrics
High rate of sex before age 13 among boys from metropolitan areas
Using information from two national surveys, researchers from Johns Hopkins Medicine and the Guttmacher Institute have found that in some metropolitan areas, more than a quarter of young, African American men reported having ...
Apr 08, 2019
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Pediatrics
First-born children more likely to learn about sex from parents
Birth order may play a significant role in how children learn about sex, especially for boys, according to a new study published in the journal Sex Education.
Sep 27, 2018
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Health
Picking up where the sexual revolution left off: The orgasm gap
At the core of the 1960s sexual revolution was "female sexual empowerment." It fell short of this goal. Specifically, while the revolution made women having intercourse before marriage acceptable, it didn't lead women to ...
May 16, 2018
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