Abstinence-Only Programs Puissance Work, Look Says <<>>

Written by pennmedicinenews on February 2, 2010 – 5:21 pm -

Sex information classes that hub on encouraging children to endure abstinent can talk into a momentous shape to poke progenitive activity, researchers reported Monday in a significant about that could have paramount implications for the nation's embattled efforts to keep young people against unwanted pregnancies and sexually transmitted diseases. In the first carefully designed study to value the argumentative proposition to sex ed, researchers organize that at worst reciprocity a third of 6th and 7th graders who went through sessions focused on abstinence started having sex in the next two years. In contrast, less half of students who got other classes, including those that included low-down reciprocity contraception, became sexually active. "I about we've written off abstinence-only drilling without looking closely at the simplicity of the evidence," said John B. Jemmott III, PhD, of the Penn’s School in of Remedy and Annenberg Clique for Communication, who led the federally funded contemplate <<>>

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Is There a History Guide from the Swine Flu of ’76? <<>>

Written by pennmedicinenews on November 30, 2009 – 5:50 pm -

Irving Nachamkin, DrPH, MPH, a professor of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, is quoted in a Washington Postal service fortunes exploring the mysteries around side effects caused by the 1976 swine flu vaccine, which the article notes “is casting a mysterious dimness floor the take a crack at to immunize 200 million people” this occasion. Nachamkin published experiment with pattern year examining samples of the 1976 vaccine – which was implicated in 400 cases of Guillain Barre Syndrome among people who received the vaccine – for the presence of Campylobacter, a bacteria which is linked to Guillain Barre. He inaugurate none, putting to hit the sack the theory that the 1976 GBS cases were the consequence of contaminated vaccine <<>>

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Foreclosure Taking a Toll on Mind-set Healthiness <<>>

Written by pennmedicinenews on August 20, 2009 – 3:02 pm -

In continuing coverage, inspection conducted by Craig Pollack, MD, MHS, an internist who recently completed the Robert Wood Johnson Cellar Clinical Scholars program, is highlighted in a article in the Washington Post. Pollack’s new study, linking foreclosure to healthfulness problems including rich rates of depression, was published this week in the American Log of Visible Health <<>>

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