Maine school to offer contraceptives
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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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Gov. Timothy M. Kaine said Thursday he would sign legislation requiring all sixth-grade girls to be vaccinated against the sexually transmitted virus that can cause cervical cancer.
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Last summer, Maine signed off on a $41 million contract with Apple Computer Corp. to provide new laptop computers to more than 30,000 seventh-  and eighth-graders and their teachers, extending the program originally started by former Gov. Angus King in 2002, near the end of his second term.
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Young people should be informed about sexual health services and have access to them, ministers say.
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RICHMOND, March 2 -- Virginia Gov. Timothy M. Kaine said Friday that he has decided to sign legislation requiring all sixth-grade girls to get immunized against a virus that causes cervical cancer if their parents don't object.
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MONDAY, Feb. 7 (HealthDay News) -- The bone loss experienced by teenagers who use Depo-Provera for birth control appears to be reversible.
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Schoolgirls should be vaccinated against cervical cancer, a panel recommends.
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An important new study shows that teaching kids about contraception doesn't necessarily change their sexual habits
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A natural family planning method is as effective as the contraceptive pill, German research suggests.
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As lawmakers prepare to debate an override of the governor's order that schoolgirls be inoculated against the virus that causes cervical cancer, a group of legislators wants the state to produce a brochure about the vaccine.
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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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The majority of sex ed classes that preach abstinence for US teens feature incorrect or misleading information about the effectiveness of contraceptives and the dangers of abortion, according to a report released by a Democratic congressman.
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New Hampshire announced plans Wednesday to become the first state to offer the new cervical-cancer vaccine free to all girls.
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By Leigh Woosley, Tulsa World, Okla.  Feb. 19--Mary Bryce Fox didn't ask her daughters. She told them.   The girls would get a controversial vaccine that protects against the sexually transmitted disease that causes genital warts and most cervical cancer.
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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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The number of girls in school and women in parliaments has risen, and their overall access to contraception has improved in the past decade, according to a new report by the United Nations Population Fund.
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The majority of teachers think sex education should include information  on  abortion, a survey suggests.