Poll: Most OK birth control for schools
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People decisively favor letting their public schools provide birth control to students, but they also voice misgivings that divide them along generational, income and racial lines, a poll showed.
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WASHINGTON -- New birth-control pills that are less effective in preventing pregnancy than the original contraceptives of the 1960s still could win federal approval if they promise other benefits, under a recommendation by health advisers.
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AUSTIN, Texas -- The Texas Board of Education approved new health textbooks for the state's high school and middle school students Friday after the publishers agreed to change the wording to depict marriage as the union of a man and a woman.
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Taking the pill can reduce the risk of heart disease and cancer, according to research out yesterday. Researchers from Wayne State University in Detroit used data from 162,000 women in the largest and most
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NEW YORK  - Many women who value the option of over-the-counter emergency contraceptive pills for themselves may worry that it's not a good idea for women in general, a small survey suggests.
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A study pins declining US teenage pregnancy rates on better use of contraception - not abstinence.
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The Pill, can reduce your risk of cancer and heart disease, a new study finds. Researchers at Wayne State University in Detroit used information from 162,000 women in the most comprehensive study on long term contraception.
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Oct. 20, 2004 -- Birth control pills may lower women&#39;s risk of certain cancers and heart disease, according to two new studies from Wayne State University.
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Statiscians reviewing a study on oral contraceptive use find the study&#39;s claims that birth control pills reduce the risk of heart disease and does not increase the risk of heart cancer are wrong.
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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 Emily Ramshaw, The Dallas Morning News  Feb. 18--AUSTIN -- Advocates of mandatory HPV vaccines for Texas schoolgirls rest their case on sound science -- medical evidence that a few shots could nearly eradicate the sexually transmitted disease and the cancer it can cause.
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School officials on Thursday defended a decision to allow children as young as 11 to obtain birth-control pills at a middle-school health center, saying the new policy is aimed at a tiny number of sexually active students.
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BITTER PILL: Federal officials say research was flawed in two major Wayne State University studies showing oral contraceptives cut the risk of heart disease and carried no increased risk of breast cancer -- results contrary to many previous findings.
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NEW YORK  - A small survey of young pregnant women found that just half had ever heard of an intrauterine device (IUD), and only a minority was aware of the contraceptives' record of safety and effectiveness.
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NEW YORK  - A method of natural family planning that closely monitors two indicators of fertility is just as effective as oral contraception in preventing unwanted pregnancies if used correctly, European researchers report.
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Taking the contraceptive pill greatly reduces women's risk of ovarian cancer and continues to protect them for at least 30 years after they stop taking it, research has shown.
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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.