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Plan B pill age change a big risk, official says
Alamogordo Daily News, N.M.The Director of the local Pregnancy Help Center spoke about the health and social risks she felt could be issues now that the Food and Drug Administration has approved selling the emergency contraceptive known as Plan B One-Step over the counter to...Tags: Family, Women's Health, Diseases and Illnesses, Health Treatments, Abortion
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Condoms for prisoners and porn stars debated by Legislature
Los Angeles Daily NewsTwo bills are pending in the state Legislature that promote and expand the use of condoms by two very different groups of people -- porn stars and prisoners -- each based on programs that are already in place in Los Angeles. One would require actors...Tags: Isadore Hall, III, Prisons, Pornography, HIV, Research
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Condom vending machines coming to LC
The News & Advance, Lynchburg, Va.Condom vending machines will return to Lynchburg College in the fall. Although condoms always are available to students for free through the school's health center and resident advisors in the dorms, more than a decade has passed since the school has...Tags: George Washington University, Boston College, Washington, DC, Vanderbilt University , Teaching and Learning
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Getting to responsible sexual health education
As Illinois lawmakers prepare to vote on comprehensive sex education for Illinois' youth (House Bill 2675), they should consider the experience of a young woman who was victimized twice — once by a rapist and again by the inaccurate, ideologically...
Tags: Diseases and Illnesses, Health Treatments, U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Birth Control, Family Planning
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Abortion in the classrooms
The Free Press, Kinston, N.C.A bill filed in February to include abortion education in students' health care studies advanced through the North Carolina Senate on Wednesday. Under Health Curriculum/Preterm Birth, North Carolina public schools health instructors will be required...Tags: Abortion, Health and Safety at School, Medical Procedures and Tests, Criminal Minds: Suspect Behavior (tv program), Freedom of the Press
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Chastity the only answer for STDs
The American Academy of Pediatrics recommends Plan B for all sexually active adolescents, giving tacit approval to promiscuous lifestyles. The Centers for Disease Control estimates that there are 700,000 new cases of gonorrhea in the U.S. annually, with...Tags: Chlamydia , Diseases and Illnesses, Gonorrhea , U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Viral Diseases and Infections
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Genesis Community Health Center expands into Delray Beach
After four years treating and serving patients in Boynton Beach, Genesis Community Health Center, a nonprofit agency providing health care to the under served and uninsured in Palm Beach County, will add a new satellite location in Delray Beach, within...Tags: High Blood Pressure, Delray Beach, Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, Boynton Beach, North Palm Beach
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Gonorrhea, Chlamydia, Syphilis, HIV, AIDS?
Highlands Today, Sebring, Fla.Highlands County reported 31 HIV cases from 2009-11. That's 10.5 per 100,000. If there's good news in that report, it's that the Florida rate is 27.7. "Those are newly reported cases," said Barbara Moore, an RN with Highlands County Health Department....Tags: Syphilis, Palm Beach County, Gonorrhea , Viral Diseases and Infections, HIV
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Area's first human-milk depot opens Tuesday at Florida Hospital
For some babies, the liquid is life saving. Now more will be able to receive human breast milk when the area's first milk depot — a place where nursing moms can drop off donated breast milk for other women's infants — opens Tuesday at...
Tags: Orlando, Hospitals and Clinics, Diseases and Illnesses, Hepatitis, Premature Birth
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Lehigh County 9th in U.S. in newborn deaths
When the international child welfare organization Save The Children began crunching the data for its latest report on mortality rates of newborn babies, it came up with a locally stunning finding: Of the largest counties in the United States, Lehigh...
Tags: Family, Lehigh County, Health and Medical Professionals, Premature Birth, Obstetrics
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Teen Fest speaks to young people for the 20th year
The Free Press, Kinston, N.C.There was a time to face reality, and a time for having fun. The time for both was Saturday at the 20th Annual Teen Fest, sponsored by the Young Women's Outreach Center. The event was held for ages 10-18 at Lenoir Community College. There were...Tags: Health and Safety at School, Freedom of the Press, Students, Martin Luther King Jr., Snow Hill
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N.C. political trajectory clear
News & Record, Greensboro, N.C.The true nature of this state legislature is coming into view. You can't judge it by campaign rhetoric or by the fringe proposals. You judge it by what moves forward. And what's moving is a decidedly right-leaning agenda -- fiscally and socially --...Tags: Temporary Assistance for Needy Families, Credit and Debt, Health Insurance, Barack Obama, Punishment
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