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| NPR Examines Health Groups Established By Evangelical Christians NPR's "Morning Edition" examined evangelical Christian health groups that share the cost of medical bills among members instead of purchasing traditional health insurance plans, many of which cover services that go against evangelical beliefs... |
| Tumor Surgery Impairs Sexuality Sexual problems are frequent after operations for carcinoma of the rectum. Christian Schmidt et al. describe the consequences for quality of life in the current issue of Deutsches Arzteblatt International (Dtsch Arztebl Int 2010; 107[8]: 123-30). In Germany, each year more than 70,000 people develop colorectal carcinoma... |
| Free Hormonal Contraception Halved Termination Rate 3500 20- to 24-year-old women from Tromsø and Hamar in Norway were offered free hormonal contraception for a year. The result was that the abortion rate in the trial cities was halved... |
| Newsweek Examines Role Of New Female Condom In Efforts To Combat Spread Of HIV In D.C. Women's health experts are watching closely to see whether a recent grant to provide no-cost female condoms in Washington, D.C., will "really make a difference" in the area's HIV/AIDS rate among women, Newsweek's Kate Dailey writes. The goal of the program is to empower women to take control of their own health and safety... |
| Gonorrhea Cases Rise Sharply In Alaska Alaska health officials have reported that the state's gonorrhea rates increased by 69% in 2009 after remaining steady for years, the Anchorage Daily News reports. Susan Jones of the Alaska Department of Health and Social Services said the increase is the biggest one-year jump since the 1970s... |
| NYT Editorial Calls On Abortion-Rights Supporters 'To Make Their Voices Heard' In the "three years since the Supreme Court's conservative majority abruptly departed from precedent to uphold a federal ban on a particular method of abortion, ... foes of reproductive freedom are pressing new attacks on women's rights and health," a New York Times editorial states. Utah Gov... |
| CDC Analysis Shows Genital Herpes Rates Remain High Roughly 16% of U.S. residents ages 14 through 49 are infected with genital herpes, making it one of the nation's most common sexually transmitted infections, according to a Centers for Disease Control and Prevention analysis released on Tuesday, Reuters reports. CDC noted that infection rates for the lifelong and incurable infection varied by gender and race. Twenty-one percent of U.S... |
| Risk-Free Treatment For Low Female Sexual Desire According to the Journal of Sexual Medicine, people who engage in regular sexual activity gain several health benefits, such as longer lives, healthier hearts, lower blood pressure, and lower risk of breast cancer. However, approximately 33 percent of women may not receive these benefits due to low sexual desire... |
| Study Shows Need To 'Speak Plainly' When Discussing Sex, Columnist Writes "A new study suggests that what people mean when they say they've had sex -- or haven't -- depends on whom you ask," St. Petersburg Times columnist Colette Bancroft writes in an opinion piece about new research from the Kinsey Institute for Research in Sex, Gender and Reproduction and the Rural Center for AIDS/STD Prevention... |
| Male Batterers Consistently Overestimate General Rates Of Violence Toward Partners Men who engaged in domestic violence consistently overestimated how common such behavior is, and the more they overestimated it the more they engaged in abusing their partner in the previous 90 days, according to new research conducted at the University of Washington... |
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