News tagged with perspectives on sexual and reproductive health

Unplanned pregnancies in U.S. at 40 percent

About 40 percent of pregnancies across the United States were unwanted or mistimed, according to the first-ever state-by-state analysis of unintended pregnancies.

Medicine & Health / Health

created May 20, 2011 | popularity 3.7 / 5 (3) | comments 3

Study points out risks of nonromantic sexual relationships

A University of Iowa study found that one-third of sexual relationships in the Chicago area lack exclusivity. One in 10 men and women reported that both they and their partner had slept with other people.

Medicine & Health / Health

created Apr 01, 2010 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0




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A mating dance with Popeye arms

A research team at Bielefeld University headed by the evolutionary biologist Dr. Holger Schielzeth is now studying how far a comparable mechanism is involved in mate choice among locusts. The male Siberian ...

Biology / Plants & Animals

created May 25, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Psychology professor's book explores everyday feminism

Social psychologist Aaronette M. White believes in living feminism not just talking about it.

Other Sciences / Social Sciences

created Feb 10, 2011 | popularity 4 / 5 (2) | comments 1

National study: Abortion does not cause depression or low self-esteem in adolescents

A new study has determined that teenagers who have abortions are no more likely to become depressed or have low self-esteem than their peers whose pregnancies do not end in abortion.

Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry

created Sep 24, 2010 | popularity 3.4 / 5 (5) | comments 35

Women: Hope to marry young? Head to Alaska, steer clear of Alabama

When men outnumber women, females marry younger and the age gap between spouses grows, a University of Michigan study shows.

Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry

created Sep 15, 2010 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Study shows behaviors and attitudes towards oral sex are changing

University of Alberta researcher Brea Malacad says results from a study on oral sex indicate there is little doubt that oral sex is becoming a more common activity for young women. Study results show the act has become a ...

Medicine & Health / Health

created Aug 11, 2010 | popularity 4.2 / 5 (20) | comments 14 | with audio podcast

Limited long-term effects of school based sexual health education

An intensive sexual health education programme in schools had only a small effect on reported sexual behaviors among African adolescents and no effect on the prevalence of HIV and genital herpes (HSV2) 9 years after the start ...

Medicine & Health / Health

created Jun 08, 2010 | popularity not rated yet | comments 1

Why do sexually experienced girls resume sexual activity after abstinence?

An Indiana University School of Medicine study provides a better understanding of why sexually experienced girls resume sexual activity after periods of abstinence, information key to dealing with sexually transmitted diseases ...

Medicine & Health / Health

created Mar 15, 2010 | popularity 2 / 5 (4) | comments 3

Researchers to perform sex change operation on papaya

The complicated sex life of the papaya is about to get even more interesting, thanks to a $3.1 million grant from the National Science Foundation. The grant will fund basic research on the papaya sex chromosomes ...

Biology / Biotechnology

created Nov 02, 2009 | popularity 3.3 / 5 (3) | comments 0

BPA chemical leaches from plastic drinking bottles into people

(PhysOrg.com) -- A new study from Harvard School of Public Health (HSPH) researchers found that participants who drank for a week from polycarbonate bottles, the popular, hard-plastic drinking bottles and ...

Medicine & Health / Health

created May 21, 2009 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (19) | comments 9

New study points to agriculture in frog sexual abnormalities

A farm irrigation canal would seem a healthier place for toads than a ditch by a supermarket parking lot. But University of Florida scientists have found the opposite is true. In a study with wide implications for a longstanding ...

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created Jul 03, 2008 | popularity 4 / 5 (4) | comments 0


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