At most recent sex, 83% of teen females and 91% of teen males used contraceptives. These proportions represent a marked improvement since 1995, when only 71% of teen females and 82% of teen males had used a contraceptive method at last sex.






Pregnancy-Related News (From All Sources)

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  • FDA Issues Early Communication For Chantix
    posted on 11/22/07 at MedicineNet
    Background: The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) issued an Early Communication about an Ongoing Safety Review of Chantix, a drug approved as an aid to smoking cessation treatment. An Early Communication reflects FDA's current analysis of available data concerning these drugs and does not mean that FDA has concluded that there is a causal relationship between the drug and the emerging safety issue. [click link for full article]

  • Tasmanians Congratulated On Landmark Decision To Phase Out Tobacco Displays, Australia
    posted on 11/22/07 at MedicineNet
    Tasmanian parliamentarians should be congratulated for leading the nation on the removal of tobacco displays and setting an example for other jurisdictions to follow, The Cancer Council Australia said after a landmark amendment to Tasmanian health legislation was passed by the state's upper house. [click link for full article]

  • Combination Of Cigarette Smoke And Alcohol Increases Damage To Heart
    posted on 11/22/07 at MedicineNet
    Tobacco smoke-filled air is bad for cardiovascular health, and drinking alcohol at the same time only makes it worse, according to researchers at the University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB).Testing the theory that moderate alcohol consumption provides some heart-protection benefits, the UAB team said it wanted to take the idea further and look at the effects of smoking and breathing second-hand smoke along with drinking. [click link for full article]

  • Cold Laser Stop Smoking And Weight Loss Education Available
    posted on 11/22/07 at MedicineNet
    A medical training seminar was held in Las Vegas, where Eileen O'Connor from KickButtsUSA an expert experienced in using cold lasers to help people quit smoking and lose weight, demonstrated to medical doctors exactly how she uses cold lasers as part of a program to help patients stop smoking. The seminar included a live cold laser treatment for a patient who wished to stop smoking, so that the doctors in attendance could observe the treatment process and protocol involved. [click link for full

  • Suicidal Thoughts Could Be Linked To Chantix Says FDA
    posted on 11/22/07 at MedicineNet
    The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has issued what the agency terms an "early communication" about a potential, but yet to be confirmed, safety issue with Pfizer's smoking cessation drug Chantix, where a number of postmarketing cases have reported patients on Chantix experiencing suicidal thoughts and related erratic behaviour. [click link for full article]

  • Cigarette Smoke And Alcohol Damage Hearts Worse As Combo
    posted on 11/22/07 at MedicineNet
    Tobacco smoke filled air is bad for cardiovascular health, and drinking alcohol at the same time only makes it worse, according to researchers at the University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB). Testing the theory that moderate alcohol consumption provides some heart-protection benefits, the UAB team said it wanted to take the idea further and look at the effects of smoking and breathing second-hand smoke along with drinking. [click link for full article]

  • The Whole Nine Months
    posted on 11/22/07 at About.com
    Nine months can seem like a long time at the beginning of pregnancy. From the pregnancy test and early pregnancy symptoms to the first contractions, it's almost a year! ...

  • MIT: Prenatal Arsenic Exposure Detected In Newborns -- Research Could Lead To Test For Screening Populations For The Poison
    posted on 11/22/07 at Medical News Today
    MIT researchers have found that the children of mothers whose water supplies were contaminated with arsenic during their pregnancies harbored gene expression changes that may lead to cancer and other diseases later in life. In addition to establishing the potential harmful effects of these prenatal exposures, the new study also provides a possible method for screening populations to detect signs of arsenic contamination. [click link for full article]

  • Smoking Before And After Pregnancy Harms Daughters' Fertility
    posted on 11/22/07 at Medical News Today
    Researchers have identified the chemical pathway by which a mother's smoking before and after pregnancy might reduce her daughter's fertility by as much as two-thirds. Cigarette smoking during pregnancy has been shown in studies to affect the fertility of a woman's offspring, but this is the first study to offer an explanation of the biology behind the effect, the scientists claim. [click link for full article]

  • Smoking May Affect Fertility Of Female Offspring
    posted on 11/22/07 at Medical News Today
    Smoking during pregnancy has many adverse effects on fetal development. A new study in mice by Andrea Jurisicova and colleagues at the University of Toronto, Canada, now adds the possibility that smoking before pregnancy or while breast-feeding might substantially decrease the fertility of female offspring to the long list of possible negative outcomes. [click link for full article]

  • Antenatal HIV
    posted on 11/22/07 at Medical News Today
    South Africa's Prevention of Mother to Child Transmission (PMTCT) Programme has severe shortcomings that could be doing more harm than good. HIV patients are missing out on opportunities to receive a key intervention namely the nevirapine tablet according to a study published in the online open access journal AIDS Research and Therapy. [click link for full article]

  • Smoking May Affect Fertility Of Female Offspring
    posted on 11/22/07 at MedicineNet
    Smoking during pregnancy has many adverse effects on fetal development. A new study in mice by Andrea Jurisicova and colleagues at the University of Toronto, Canada, now adds the possibility that smoking before pregnancy or while breast-feeding might substantially decrease the fertility of female offspring to the long list of possible negative outcomes. [click link for full article]

  • Heart Disease Death Rates Going Up In Young US Women
    posted on 11/22/07 at MedicineNet
    A new study by scientists in the US and the UK shows that the rate of deaths due to heart disease in young American adults has reached a plateau and may even be going up again in young women, after decades of hard won progress in reducing it. Researchers suggest the worrying trend could be due to bad health habits. [click link for full article]

  • Found In Translation: Prioritising Research Questions In Breast Cancer
    posted on 11/22/07 at MedicineNet
    The key priorities that will impact on the future treatment of breast cancer have been identified by a group of experts on the disease. Research published in the online open access journal Breast Cancer Research may focus research resources onto the issues highlighted as top priorities. [click link for full article]

  • Arterial Vascular Disease Underdiagnosed, Undertreated In Older U.S. Women
    posted on 11/22/07 at MedicineNet
    Though arterial vascular disease is widespread and often deadly among older American women, doctors too often fail to spot and treat it, according to a new report by a team of vascular surgeons from the Columbia University Medical Center and Weill Cornell Medical College campuses of NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital. [click link for full article]

  • Smoking Before, After Pregnancy Harms Daughters' Fertility (HealthDay)
    posted on 11/21/07 at Yahoo!
    HealthDay - WEDNESDAY, Nov. 21 (HealthDay News) -- Researchers haveidentified the chemical pathway by which a mother's smoking before andafter pregnancy might reduce her daughter's fertility by as much astwo-thirds.

  • National Marrow Donor Program(R) Commends New American Medical...
    posted on 11/21/07 at Topix
    "Through our network of cord blood banks we are working with the physician community to encourage moms to donate their babies' cord blood. The new AMA guidelines will help us with our efforts" Main Category: Transplants / Organ Donations News Article Date: 19 Nov 2007 - 2:00 PST newsletters The National Marrow Donor Program commends the nation's largest physicians' association for new guidelines ...

  • Canada: Nova Scotia Town Votes Unanimously To Ban Smoking In Cars Carrying Children
    posted on 11/21/07 at MedicineNet
    The Canadian Cancer Society has applauded a small town in Nova Scotia which dismissed criticism that banning smoking in cars carrying children is too intrusive and instead cited the evolution of anti-smoking laws across the country. The town council of Wolfville voted in favour of the bylaw, the first of its kind in Canada. [click link for full article]

  • Winter Coats for Pregnant Women
    posted on 11/21/07 at About.com
    It's getting cold, so staying warm is on people's minds. Okay so I get an email that I think I know the answer to, but it's a fashion question regarding...

  • Hazardous Advanced Micro Devices ('A.M.D.') 'Clean Room' Chemicals Allegedly Caused Multiple Birth Defects
    posted on 11/21/07 at Medical News Today
    Advanced Micro Devices ("A.M.D.") and a regional medical association that claims to treat 15 percent of Austin-area residents are responsible for multiple birth defects in an Austin youth born with a missing lower right arm and lifelong cognitive deficits, according to a lawsuit filed in Travis County District Court. The youth's mother, a former A.M.D. "clean room" employee, was wrongfully exposed to birth defect-causing hazardous chemicals during her pregnancy. A.M.D. [clic

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