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Senior bishops of the influential Philippine Roman Catholic Church on Friday warned that a proposed law that aims to curb the country's runaway population growth would be a threat to life and family.
The Catholic Bishops Conference of the Philippines (CBCP) urged legislators not to pass the Reproductive Health bill without fixing...
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Senior bishops of the influential Philippine Roman Catholic Church on Friday warned that a proposed law that aims to curb the country's runaway population growth would be a threat to life and family.
The Catholic Bishops Conference of the Philippines (CBCP) urged legislators not to pass the Reproductive Health bill without fixing...
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 Massachusetts' high school board has agreed to allow contraceptives sale among students. After the “pregnancy pact” scandal in June, the board has unanimously voted to allow student to buy contraceptives. Gloucester School Committee made this plan that allows contraceptives to be sold inside school’s health clinic, but their sale will...
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 A new study has shown that women who suffer from migraines can be at an important lower risk to develop breast cancer. Christopher Li, MD, of the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center in Seattle, stated that many of the types of migraine that most women suffer from are “known to be hormonally related, and also are important in the...
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 Exposure to air pollution from traffic fumes raises risks of
potentially fatal blood clots in the leg; it alters the blood’s coagulation
properties and heightens the risk of deep vein thrombosis (DVT), a Harvard research
study showed.
The Harvard School of Public Health published the results of
the first study focused on air...
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 According to a report published in the British medical
journal The Lancet on Friday by international researchers, women who have been
taking the pill for at least five years have nearly a double risk of cervical
cancer as oppose to women who have nerr taken the pill at all.
This is the second round of bad news for the pill this...
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 The Ortho-Evra birth control patch is far riskier than the
pill, a consumer advocacy group said. The group petitioned the government to
remove the birth control patch from the market, as it represents a threat for
women who use it.
An investigation lead by the Associated Press in 2005 found
women who use birth control patch face...
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 According to the FDA (The Food and Drug Administration)
manufacturers of over-the-counter stand-alone vaginal contraceptive and
spermicidal products containing nonoxynol 9 or N9 are now required to put a
warning in the new labeling to inform consumers that use products of this type
do not prevent HIV and sexually transmitted diseases...
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 According to a new study, women who suffer from depression are more likely to reach menopause with a higher risk of bone fractures (osteoporosis), compared to those who don’t have depression. In a study published in Archives of Internal Medicine it was found that 17% of women with depression had less bone mass in a section of their hip,...
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 On Wednesday, leading sex education researchers said that
just teaching abstinence remains unproven as a way to stop teen sex, while
programs that both discuss contraceptives and urge teens to wait have better
track records.
Even as a bill to continue funding abstinence-only
instruction moves forward in Congress, researcher...
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 The teenage pregnancy rate increased in US,
reports from the US Centers for Disease Control and prevention show. On this
ground, a group of 17 girls attending the public high school in the seaside
town of Gloucester, Mass., made a pact to become pregnant and to
raise the children together. At the end of the school year, 17 teenage...
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 The sexual health of children is being once again a topic of
discussion, this time between parents and teachers of Maine
school district.
Parents and school officials are preparing to battle tonight
in a debate about the sexual health of children at one Maine
school district.
Administrators at a Portland
middle school are...
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 Wal-Mart is thinking of expanding its piece of the nation’s
$250 billion retail pharmaceutical market beyond its current share of 5 to 6
percent, and hopes to do so by reaching out to a younger and broader drug
clientele.
Many of the drugs previously on the Wal-Mart plan were
heart, high blood pressure, and diabetes drugs commonly...
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 According to a new study
conducted by Oxford
scientists, oral birth control pills are effective against ovarian cancer.
"Worldwide, the Pill has already prevented 200,000 women from developing
cancer of the ovary and has prevented 100,000 deaths from the disease. More
than 100 million women are now taking the Pill, so the...
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 Researchers at the University of Oxford claim that
oral contraceptives may protect women from ovarian cancer.
The researchers analyzed 45 studies on ovarian cancer
in 21 countries and found that women using birth control pills reduce the risk
of developing the disease.
Valerie Beral of Oxford University and a large number of...
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 The FDA approved yesterday the first continuous use birth control drug for women which, unlike other similar products, completely excludes the menstrual period.
The new contraceptive approved Tuesday by the Food and Drug Administration is called Lybrel and is manufactured by Wyeth of Philadelphia, PA. The product comes in a 28-day-pill...
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