Minister backs contraceptive jabs
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Minister for Children Margaret Hodge is calling for schoolgirls to receive contraceptive injections.
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This is a document from the Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency (MHRA), UK, to doctors regarding updated prescribing advice on the effect of Depo-Provera contraception on bones.
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Ministers hint new controls needed to prevent children being exposed to harmful material.
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Young people are to be offered a much broader range of contraception in a bid to cut the high teenage pregnancy rate.
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Multimillion-pound programme will vaccinate all girls aged 12 to 13.
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The government on Tuesday said a controversial abortion pill is safe enough to remain on the market, despite a third death and a grieving father's plea.
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Gov. Rick Perry on Thursday angrily defended his relationship with Merck &amp; Co. and his executive order requiring that 11- and 12-year-old girls receive the drugmaker's vaccine against the sexually transmitted cervical-cancer virus.
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Young people should be informed about sexual health services and have access to them, ministers say.
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The British government took a step Wednesday toward offering vaccinations against cervical cancer for girls as young as 12,  a measure that could be carried out by late next year.
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Ministers will unveil plans to give health workers are to be given more protection against attacks in communities.
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Gov. Rick Perry on Thursday angrily defended his relationship with Merck &amp; Co. and his executive order requiring that schoolgirls receive the drugmaker's vaccine against the sexually transmitted cervical-cancer virus
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Brazil will subsidize birth control pills for the poor, Health Minister Jose Temporao said on Monday, a decision that may stoke a simmering conflict between the state and Catholic Church over contraception and abortion.
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A plan to offer girls aged 12 to 13 vaccinations against cervical cancer from September 2008 could end up saving 400 lives a year, the government announced Friday.
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A health minister is to face a panel of MPs investigating whether the abortion time limit should be reduced.
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The government warns "natural" products being snapped up by people who can't get shots may not prevent illness.
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Ministers claim issues raised in Human Fertilisation and Embryology Bill are matters of conscience
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British newspapers have backed a government minister embroiled in a political storm sparked by his views on the problems posed by Muslim women wearing a veil.