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Intervention reduces delinquent teenage pregancy rates

Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry

created Jun 01, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

A program aimed at reducing criminal behavior in juvenile justice teens has yielded a surprising side benefit. The program is also reducing the teens' rate of pregnancy, according to a new study out this week.





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Teens are heading in wrong direction: Likely to have sex, but not use contraception

Medicine & Health / Health

created Jun 18, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Between 2003 and 2007, the progress made in the 1990s and early 2000s in improving teen contraceptive use and reducing teen pregnancy and childbearing stalled, and may even have reversed among certain groups of teens, according ...


Depression linked to subsequent pregnancy in black teens

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created Mar 03, 2008 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

African American adolescent mothers who have symptoms of depression may be more likely to have a subsequent pregnancy within two years of giving birth, according to a report in the March issue of Archives of Pediatrics & ...


Discrimination and Abuse Linked to Higher Rates of Pregnancy Among LGB Teens

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created Dec 16, 2008 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- Lesbian, gay, and bisexual (LGB) teens in British Columbia are at a higher risk of pregnancy because of discrimination, sexual abuse and harassment compared to heterosexual teens, according to a University ...


Anxiety and depression do not affect pregnancy and treatment cancellation rates

Medicine & Health / Research

created Jan 29, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Anxiety and depression before and during fertility treatment does not affect the likelihood of a woman becoming pregnant or of her cancelling her treatment, according to a study published in Europe's leading reproductive ...


Teenage birth rates higher in more religious states

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created Sep 17, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (5) | comments 5

Rates of births to teenage mothers are strongly predicted by conservative religious beliefs, even after controlling for differences in income and rates of abortion. Researchers writing in BioMed Central's open access journal ...


Study is first to link viewing of sexual content on TV to subsequent teen pregnancy

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created Nov 03, 2008 | popularity 3 / 5 (2) | comments 1

Adolescents who have high levels of exposure to television programs that contain sexual content are twice as likely to be involved in a pregnancy over the following three years as their peers who watch few such shows, according ...


Baby boomlet: US births in 2007 break 1950s record (AP)

Baby boomlet: US births in 2007 break 1950s record

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created Mar 18, 2009 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (10) | comments 33

(AP) -- More babies were born in the United States in 2007 than any year in the nation's history, topping the peak during the baby boom 50 years earlier, federal researchers reported Wednesday.


Good news on multiple sclerosis and pregnancy

Medicine & Health / Neuroscience

created Nov 18, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

There is good news for women with multiple sclerosis (MS) who are pregnant or thinking about becoming pregnant. A new study shows that pregnant women with multiple sclerosis are only slightly more likely to have cesarean ...


Enjoying school key to tackling teenage pregnancy

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created Nov 13, 2009 | popularity 2 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Youth development programmes that tackle deprivation and help children and young people enjoy school are successful in reducing teenage pregnancy rates, say researchers in BMJ today.


Pregnancy Has No Impact On Breast Cancer, But Can Delay Diagnosis And Treatment

Medicine & Health / Cancer

created Feb 09, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 1

(PhysOrg.com) -- A new study finds women who develop breast cancer while pregnant or soon afterwards do not experience any differences in disease severity or likelihood of survival compared to other women with breast cancer. ...



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