Maine middle school to offer the pill
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Pupils at a city middle school will be able to get birth control pills and patches at their student health center after the local school board approved the proposal Wednesday evening.
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Michigan girls entering the sixth grade next year would have to be vaccinated against cervical cancer under legislation backed Tuesday by a bipartisan group of female lawmakers.
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Women over 18 may soon be able to get the morning-after pill without a prescription. In a surprise decision Monday, health officials revived a long-stalled application to allow over-the-counter sales of the emergency contraceptive.
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A health teacher at Argyle Middle School in Silver Spring spoke to eighth-graders yesterday about sexual orientation. And so began a pilot program in Montgomery County schools that delves deeper into issues of sexual and gender identity than most other school systems in the Washington region, if not...
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By Heather Woodward, The Olympian, Olympia, Wash.  Sep. 16--DUPONT -- When a new Steilacoom Historical School District middle school opens here in 2008, the building will be more than three times as big and will sit on more than six times as much land as its predecessor.
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WASHINGTON The first new cancer drug in ten years that is specifically designed to help children is a step closer to approval. An advisory panel at the Food and Drug Administration is recommending the use
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CHICAGO - Some see easy access to emergency contraception as a way to drastically reduce teen pregnancy, already on the decline since the early 1990s. Others worry that its long-term effects on young women are unknown or argue that the drug, also known as the "morning after pill," encourages teens to have sex...
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By Meg Haskell, Bangor Daily News, Maine  Feb. 13--A deadly virus that is the most common cause of cervical cancer in women is the target of proposed legislation in Maine.   Sen.
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The headache pill and other non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs (NSAIDs) have already been shown to lower the risk of a number of cancers, including prostate.
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Secondary schools have been told to allow pupils to carry water and consume it during lessons because of evidence that it improves their health and academic performance.
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WASHINGTON -- A morning-after pill implicated in the death of an 18-year-old California girl last fall will add new warnings linking RU-486 to the risk of serious bacterial infection.
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NEW ORLEANS Nov 9, 2004 - An experimental pill that offers the fairy-tale promise of helping people lose weight and quit smoking has gathered even more stardust.
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A month after distribution began, the over-the-counter version of the morning-after pill is now available at pharmacies nationwide. Planned Parenthood celebrated Wednesday with a free giveaway of the emergency contraceptive, while critics insisted that Plan B's accessibility will soon be a cause for regret.
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A health body is using mobile phones to text reminders to young women to take the contraceptive pill.
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The city school board ordered an investigation into an after-school program run by the YMCA in which some middle school students were taken to visit a Planned Parenthood clinic.
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By Janet Elliott, Houston Chronicle  Feb. 13--AUSTIN -- When Jacqueline Golson hears criticism that Texas is moving too fast to require that middle-school girls be vaccinated against cervical cancer, she recalls the surgeries and radiation that ravaged her body.
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By Sarah Vos, The Lexington Herald-Leader, Ky.  Feb. 16--FRANKFORT -- Under a bill approved by the House Health and Welfare Committee yesterday, middle school girls would be required to be vaccinated for a virus that causes cervical cancer.