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...adoption of new (injectable or implant) contraceptive devices. In other words, the good news about teen pregnancy is traceable to a combination of abstinence and contraceptive education, or an inclusive curriculum. Not coincidentally, the vast majority of Americans favor inclusive sex education; according to HHS, more than 80 percent of Americans over 30 and 90 percent of Americans under 30 believe that birth control information should be made available to teenagers. The American Medical Association recently announced its support for comprehensive sex education - specifically, a curriculum that includes both abstinence and contraception. Their researchers found that students who received this...
...straight facts about sex at home. For example, rates of pregnancy among Hispanic teens have been slower to drop than among other population groups. This week, the National Campaign to Prevent Teen Pregnancy released a survey showing just how much at risk that population remains: While 90 percent of Hispanics feel teen pregnancy is a problem in their community, only 48 percent of Hispanic parents said they had ever had in-depth talks with their children about sex. This information gap needs desperately to be filled - most likely by the public schools. If honest information isn't made available...
...several studies conducted with college women, nearly half tested positive for HPV. It is estimated that 10 million American women have active viral infections and perhaps 10 percent of them have diseased tissue as a result. Papilloma is associated with 95 percent of cervical cancer cases...
...always accurate. The results can be skewed due to human error in spreading the samples on slides and in reading the results. Since each of the hundreds of thousands of cells needs to be examined, abnormal cells are often missed. It is estimated that 20 to 40 percent of lesions are missed...
Meningitis is extremely powerful. According to CDC statistics, roughly 13 percent of bacterial meningitis cases result in death, including 20 to 25 percent of meningococcemia cases...