 | | | | Sexual / Reproductive Health Headlines | | | CHICAGO (AP) -- For the first time, a large study suggests a higher rate of childhood cancer among test-tube babies, but researchers say the reason probably has nothing to do with how the infants were conceived.
(Associated Press) -- For the first time, a vaginal gel has proved capable of blocking the AIDS virus: It cut in half a woman's chances of getting HIV from an infected partner in a study in South Africa. Scientists called it a breakthrough in the long quest for a tool to help women whose partners won't use condoms.
BERLIN (AP) -- Embryos created during in vitro fertilization can be screened for genetic defects before being implanted in the womb, a German high court said in a landmark ruling Tuesday.
MADRID (AP) -- Spain's highest court has agreed to study whether a new abortion law allowing the procedure without restrictions in the first 14 weeks of pregnancy is constitutional.
JOHANNESBURG (AP) -- South African health officials said Tuesday they are alarmed by the rise in deaths among men who have had botched traditional circumcisions, after 39 young men died in the last month after undergoing the rite of passage into manhood.
LONDON (AP) -- Doctors could one day use a blood test to predict decades in advance when women will go into menopause, scientists say. In research to be presented on Monday at a European fertility conference in Rome, Iranian experts say their preliminary study could be a first step toward developing a tool to help women decide when they want to have children.
LONDON (AP) -- Overweight women have a much higher risk of a miscarriage after having in-vitro fertilization compared with slim women, new research says.
LONDON (AP) -- Human fetuses cannot feel pain before the age of 24 weeks, a British medical association said Friday -- delivering a setback for anti-abortion activists campaigning to lower the country's 24-week time limit.
NEW YORK, N.Y. (Canadian Press) -- Guy Jacobson says he doesn't know how to stop natural disasters, but knows how to "sabotage businesses" that make money using children for sex.
BEIJING (Asia Pulse Pte Ltd) -- Seven out of 10 men admitted to hospital for a heart attack (acute ST segment elevation myocardial infarction (STEMI)) had erectile dysfunction (ED) in the six months prior to their admission according to new data presented today at the World Congress of Cardiology (WCC) Scientific Sessions in Beijing, China.
WASHINGTON (Canadian Press) -- U.S. government health experts said Thursday a new type of morning-after contraceptive that works longer than existing drugs is safe and effective.
(USA TODAY) -- The punishment is brutal -- three push-ups -- each time one of the children kicks a soccer ball into a cone.
(USA TODAY) -- As Lance Somerfeld learned, babies are excellent teachers.
ATLANTA (AP) -- A growing number of teen girls say they use the rhythm method for birth control, and more teens also think it's OK for an unmarried female to have a baby, according to a government survey released Wednesday. The report may help explain why the teen pregnancy rate is no longer dropping.
WINDHOEK, Namibia (AP) -- Supporters of three HIV-positive women in Namibia who say they were sterilized without their consent held protests to support the women's decision to sue the government, a legal aid group said Wednesday.
WASHINGTON (Deutsche Presse-Agentur) -- Katitia Pitts stands before a small group of people at a health centre in Washington and waves a female condom in the air.
ATLANTA (AP) -- The pill is still the No. 1 contraceptive for American women, but it's even more popular in other countries, according to the first government report comparing nations.
ATLANTA (AP) -- U.S. health officials have for the first time released contraception safety guidelines for more than 1 million women who have had weight-loss surgery or have certain medical conditions.
ATLANTA (AP) -- The pill is still the No. 1 contraceptive for American women, but it's even more popular in other industrialized countries.
(Associated Press) -- Researchers may finally be closing in on a way to screen healthy women for ovarian cancer -- a disease that rarely shows symptoms until it's too late to cure.
(Associated Press) -- Surviving a heart attack can kill your sex life.
CHICAGO (AP) -- A world without "the pill" is unimaginable to many young women who now use it to treat acne, skip periods, improve mood and, of course, prevent pregnancy. They might be surprised to learn that U.S. officials announcing approval of the world's first oral contraceptive were uncomfortable.
RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) -- Brazil's health minister has a remedy for the nation's high-blood- pressure problem: More sex.
VANCOUVER, B.C. (Canadian Press) -- Nurses at a youth clinic in Vancouver say there's a troubling imbalance in just who is walking through their doors to seek sexual-health information and treatment: almost all of them are female.
ATLANTA (AP) -- U.S. births fell in 2008, probably because of the recession, updated government figures confirm. The one exception to the trend was the birth rate among women in their 40s, who perhaps felt they didn't have the luxury of waiting for better economic times.
LONDON (AP) -- An American infertility clinic seeking business in Britain has prompted fierce criticism by offering free eggs from a U.S. woman to one participant in a promotional seminar Wednesday evening in London.
LONDON (AP) -- Women who took the birth control pill beginning in the late 1960s lived longer than those never on the pill, a new study says.
LONDON (AP) -- It seems the old cliche may be true. Men are more likely than women to be interested in sex, have sex and enjoy sex, according to new scientific research, which also found people who stay active and healthy enjoy longer sex lives.
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Too many pregnant women who want to avoid a repeat cesarean delivery are being denied the chance, concludes a government panel that urged doctors to rethink litigation-spurred policies that have swung the pendulum back toward the days of "once a C-section, always a C-section."
NEW YORK (Deutsche Presse-Agentur) -- The United Nations on Tuesday launched a five- year plan to fight for an end to gender inequalities and human rights violations that put women and girls at risk of HIV infection.
(Associated Press) -- Some mullahs in Afghanistan are distributing condoms. Others are quoting the Quran to encourage longer breaks between births. Health experts say contraception is starting to catch on in a country with the world's second highest maternal death rate.
LONDON (AP) -- When Stinne Holm Bergholdt of Denmark was diagnosed with bone cancer at age 27, she was afraid she wouldn't be able to have children.
VIENNA (AP) -- Governments around the world must step up their efforts to limit access to "date-rape drugs," sedatives that are secretly added to a person's drink to limit their ability to resist sexual assault and remember it later, a watchdog said Wednesday.
WASHINGTON (AP) -- They're a bane of that decade or two before menopause, growths in the uterus called fibroids that cause bleeding, pain or other problems in nearly a third of women -- and they're the No. 1 cause of hysterectomies.
LONDON (AP) -- The most powerful force against AIDS in Africa may be circumcision, a procedure that's easily done in the developed world. But it's a challenge on a continent where there are too few medical workers and a reluctance by men for cultural reasons and fear of pain.
DARMSTADT, Germany (Deutsche Presse-Agentur) -- A member of Germany's leading female pop group has been charged with infecting a man with the AIDS virus through unprotected sex, prosecutors said Friday.
(Associated Press) -- A woman's chance of having a child with autism increase substantially as she ages, but the risk may be less for older dads than previously suggested, a new study analyzing more than 5 million births found.
CHICAGO (AP) -- An experimental abstinence-only program without a moralistic tone can delay teens from having sex, a provocative study found.
HANOI, Vietnam (AP) -- Nearly half of all births in China are delivered by cesarean section, the world's highest rate according to a survey by the World Health Organization, which warned Tuesday that a boom in unnecessary surgeries is jeopardizing women's health.
WASHINGTON (AP) -- They're the overlooked viruses: Hepatitis B and C together infect three to five times more Americans than the AIDS virus does, and most don't know it.
VIENNA (AP) -- Austria's health ministry says the contraceptive morning-after pill is now available in pharmacies without a prescription.
INDIANAPOLIS (AP) -- Indiana University researchers say half of all urban teenage girls may get one or more sexually transmitted infections within two years of becoming sexually active.
(McClatchy-Tribune Information Services) -- Concerned that American men may be embracing the same kind of misguided sex-hormone use that brought calamity to women, the government is funding a national study to see whether older men with low testosterone benefit from boosting it.
(USA TODAY) -- Women across the USA have been shocked and angered by new advice to get fewer mammograms. Yet experts have been debating the risks of mammograms and other cancer screenings for more than a decade.
SHANGHAI (AP) -- The virus that causes AIDS is now spreading fastest in China through heterosexual sex, a trend demanding new strategies to stave off a rebound in the epidemic after years of progress in containing it, a United Nations report said.
WASHINGTON (AP) -- The White House is on a collision course with Catholic bishops in an intractable dispute over abortion that could blow up the fragile political coalition behind President Barack Obama's health care overhaul.
WASHINGTON (AP)-- First mammograms. Now -- in an apparent coincidence -- Pap smears.
ATLANTA (AP) - Sexually spread diseases continue to rise, with reported chlamydia cases setting yet another record in 2008, government health officials said Monday.
NEW YORK (AP) -- Male factory workers in China who got very high doses of a chemical that's been widely used in hard plastic bottles had high rates of sexual problems, researchers reported Wednesday.
GENEVA (AP) -- In its first study of women's health around the globe, the World Health Organization said Monday that the AIDS virus is the leading cause of death and disease among women between the ages of 15 and 44.
ATLANTA (AP) -- Premature births, often due to poor care of low-income pregnant women, are the main reason the U.S. infant mortality rate is higher than in most European countries, a government report said Tuesday.
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Hoping to schedule your baby's birth while your mother's in town, or before the doctor goes on vacation? Labor is becoming less of a late-night surprise, but some hospitals are starting to tighten the rules for elective deliveries - because some babies are being delivered too early.
MANILA (The New York Times News Service) -- Gina Judilla already had three children the first time she tried to terminate a pregnancy. "I jumped down the stairs, hoping that would cause a miscarriage," she said. The fetus survived and is now an 8-year-old boy.
ATLANTA (AP) -- A second kind of vaccine against cervical cancer may be added to the recommended list for girls and young women after a federal advisory panel voted Wednesday to support it.
CHICAGO (AP) -- A sperm donor passed on a potentially deadly genetic heart condition to nine of his 24 children, including one who died at age 2 from heart failure, according to a medical journal report.
TAMPA (The New York Times News Service) -- When Geri Bell lost her breasts to cancer, she joked that at least she wouldn't need a bra. When she lost her hair to chemotherapy, she'd say how her wig made it so easy to get ready in the morning.
LONDON (AP)-- Giving contraceptives to people in developing countries could help fight climate change by slowing population growth, experts said Friday.
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Drugmaker Merck likely will face U.S. competition for its vaccine Gardasil, after federal experts recommended rival GlaxoSmithKline's Cervarix also be approved to prevent the virus that causes most cervical cancers.
DENVER (The New York Times News Service) -- A 70-year-old real estate broker from Spokane, Wash., has been indicted for making threats against a Boulder abortion provider, the first federal prosecution of abortion threats since the slaying of a Kansas doctor.
ATLANTA (AP) -- Circumcision, which has helped prevent AIDS among heterosexual men in Africa, doesn't help protect gay men from the virus, according to the largest U.S. study to look at the question.
NEW YORK (AP) -- Scientists say they've found a big reason why treatment for chronic hepatitis C infection works better for white patients than for African-Americans. It's a tiny variation in a gene.
ROME (AP) -- Italy's health and drugs authorities have approved the use of the abortion drug RU486, drawing immediate protests by the Vatican.
(McClatchy-Tribune Information Services) -- Increases in parental unemployment and teen pregnancy are making life more difficult for children in Pennsylvania, which is ranked 23rd in a national report on child well-being released Tuesday.
(McClatchy-Tribune Information Services) -- The largest-ever trial for a cervical cancer vaccine shows that the drug Cervarix protects women from five of the most common cancercausing viruses, a University of New Mexico researcher said Tuesday.
ATLANTA (AP) -- In a perverse twist of medical fate, Farrah Fawcett has become the poster girl for anal cancer, a rare disease often linked to a sexually transmitted virus.
LONDON (AP) -- For men with fertility problems, some doctors are prescribing a very conventional way to have a baby: more sex.
(McClatchy-Tribune Information Services) -- Four years ago, after talking to doctors at the Philadelphia VA Medical Center, the Rev. Ricardo Flippin opted for a radiation therapy that would precisely target his prostate cancer and leave nearby organs unharmed.
ATLANTA (The New York Times News Service) -- When he takes the helm of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention on Monday, Dr. Thomas Frieden will bring a solid record of success -- and controversy.
(McClatchy-Tribune Information Services) -- Fake erectile dysfunction (ED) drugs have become increasingly widespread as traders are tapping high demand from Thai consumers via the internet, say international drugmakers.
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