Young teen pregnancy at 60-year low
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Early teen and pre-teen pregnancy in the United States has dropped to its lowest levels in nearly 60 years. &quot;Births to 10 to 14 Year-Old Mothers, 1990-2002: Trends and Health
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NEW YORK  - Young adults who were born at a  very low weight may have a higher-than-average rate of some  psychological problems, a new study suggests.
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Not having children, having too many, or  too young or not spaced far enough apart could be detrimental  to a woman's health later in life, researchers said on Tuesday.
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The birth rate among adolescent and  young teen girls in the United States fell sharply in the  1990s, hitting a 58-year-low in 2002, the Centers for Disease  Control and Prevention reported on Monday.
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Laws that would require parents to be notified when teens seek birth control would do little to curb underage sex and could cause a troubling number of girls to engage in unsafe intercourse, a survey of teens in 33 states suggests.
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BUCHAREST: A 67-year-old retired Romanian university teacher, Adriana Iliescu, is seven months pregnant with twins after almost a decade of treatment in fertility clinics.
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Jamie Lynn Spears wasn't the only one who was "shocked and scared" when the popular U.S. television star realized she was pregnant at age 16.
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NEW YORK  - In discussions with 300 pregnant adolescents, 42 percent expressed fears of not being able to get pregnant. This is remarkable, say doctors from Rhode Island.
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Research from Australia in this weekâs issue of THE LANCET suggests that tall girls given oestrogen therapy in adolescence to reduce adult height are more likely to experience later fertility problems than the general population.
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Among teens in one Los Angles public school, 60 percent reported dieting at some point in their lives -- primarily before the age of 14 -- and many said they skipped meals or vomited to control their weight.
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The dramatic declines in  teenage pregnancy rates noted in the United States between 1995  and 2002 were largely due to improved contraceptive use, not to  abstinence, a new study shows.
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Investigators have found that  children, whose mothers had a larger body mass index (BMI)  prior to pregnancy or a large mid-upper arm circumference in  late pregnancy, also had higher levels of body fat at the age  of 9 years than other children of the same age. The amount of  weight mothers put on during pregnancy, however, had no effect  on their child&#39;s body fat.
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MONDAY, Feb. 5 (HealthDay News) -- The teen pregnancy rate in the United States is at an all-time low, while the rate of Caesarean deliveries is at an all-time high.
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Britney Spears, expecting baby No. 2, says she and husband Kevin Federline didn't plan the pregnancy. "It just kind of happened," the 24-year-old singer reveals in an interview in the latest issue of People magazine, on newsstands Friday.
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The birth rate among American girls ages 10 to 14 has fallen to its lowest level since 1946, the government reported Monday. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said
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Alternative therapies such as reflexology and herbal supplements may reduce a woman's chance of getting pregnant, experts said Wednesday.
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Although rumor doubted her wedding license, Britney Spears, 22, has already hoped to have a baby in her second marriage. Spears told People magazine today that she wanted to be &quot;a young mom&quot;.