Lawmaker: Abstinence Programs Misleading
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Rep. Henry Waxman says federally funded abstinence education programs that are used in 25 states contain false and misleading information about contraception, abortion and sexually transmitted diseases.
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Some federally financed sex education programs that teach an abstinence-only approach have factual errors and are ineffective, a Congressional report says.
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Teenagers who have had formal sex education are far more likely to put off having sex, contradicting earlier studies on the effectiveness of such programs, U.S. researchers said on Wednesday.
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A hormone patch that works to restore a woman's sex drive should not be approved until additional studies to determine its risk, federal health advisers said today.
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Several Democratic lawmakers asked the Bush administration on Monday to replace its new family-planning chief because he has worked for a health provider that opposes the use of birth control.
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The great majority of sexually active young American women enrolled in health plans are ignoring repeated recommendations that they get routine screening
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By Janet Elliott, Houston Chronicle  Feb. 8--AUSTIN -- Blowback continued at the Capitol on Wednesday over Gov. Rick Perry's order mandating that schoolgirls be vaccinated against a sexually transmitted disease linked to cervical cancer.
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Sorry, Senator, but the numbers don't add up.
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THURSDAY, Dec. 20 (HealthDay News) -- Sex education programs do work to help discourage many teens from becoming sexually active before age 15, according to data released Wednesday by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).
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A hormone patch that works to restore a woman&#39;s sex drive should not be approved until additional studies to determine its risk, federal health advisers said today.
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A conservative senator from America&#39;s Bible Belt has apologized after being exposed as a former customer of an upscale prostitution agency whose massive client list is said to include many Washington power brokers.
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Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist said Sunday that the government should review federally funded sexual abstinence programs, under fire from Democrats who say they contain false and misleading medical information.
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WASHINGTON -- Federal funding for abstinence education will likely fall considerably this year as Democratic leaders said Wednesday they will let a $50 million grant program expire on June 30.
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Legislators in glass houses shouldn't throw stones.
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The Bush administration is funding abstinence education curricula that teaches &quot;false and misleading information,&quot; says a report released yesterday by a House Democratic leader.
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We know many of our youth are having sex and will have sex in the future. To teach abstinence without including education on the need for a condom and how to use a condom will lead to more HIV and STD infections.
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By AARON C. DAVIS SACRAMENTO, Calif. - A Democratic lawmaker has abandoned her heavily ridiculed campaign to make spanking a crime, acknowledging that the idea would get whacked even in California's sometimes whimsical Legislature.