THE RECENT alarming events at Gloucester High School should be a wake-up call about the precarious sexual health of our nation’s youth. Despite our country’s wealth and educational resources, the United States leads all industrialized Western nations in rates of teenage pregnancy and sexually transmitted diseases.
This epidemic is fueled by inaccurate sexual information, lack of [...]
Three cheers for the news that nearly one in three secondary schools are now running sexual health clinics for pupils - some as young as 11 - offering condoms, pregnancy tests and the morning-after pill.
This figure is revealed in a new report from the Sex Education Forum. And I think it makes encouraging reading.
I’m wholly [...]
I’ve been married to my husband, who’s 58, for 16 years. We had an extremely active, passionate sex life for the first eight years of our marriage, but none since. I miss sex desperately. I’ve contemplated affairs and divorce many times. I love my husband so much, but I’m miserable without sex.
At first he stopped [...]
AIDS advocacy groups and health departments in Florida are planning several events aimed at increasing awareness about HIV among minorities ahead of National HIV Testing Day, which is scheduled for Friday, the Naples Daily News reports.
According to the Daily News, Florida in 2006 reported the third-highest AIDS rate for blacks and fourth-highest rate for Hispanics [...]
The Healthcare Commission found no improvement since last year, despite the focus on areas such as cleanliness.
Next April, trusts will have to meet a range of standards in order to be given a “licence for business”.
The commission warned that meant the 103 failing trusts had just 10 months to address its findings.
Just under a third [...]
Health bosses have secured ï¿¡2.8 million of government funding to provide better mental health counselling services for people.
The new cash will allow both East Sussex Downs and Weald and Hastings and Rother Primary Care Trusts (PCTs), working closely with Sussex Partnership Trust, to recruit staff who offer properly supervised low and high intensity talking therapies.
The [...]
tate and city officials report that flaws in the mental health and criminal justice systems have contributed to violence in people with serious mental illness.
A panel was charged with studying the issue after several high profile incidents of violence involving suspects with mental illness _ including the case of a New York City psychotherapist who [...]
A public consultation is being held this week on planned changes to mental health services in the Glasgow area.
On Wednesday June 25th, NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde is holding a public meeting to discuss proposals to remove services from the Vale of Leven Hospital and transfer them to Glasgow’s Gartnavel Royal Hospital.The Helensburgh Advertiser reports [...]
Kristofer Goldsmith was so distressed about the prospect of returning to Iraq that he decided he was willing to kill himself to avoid serving a second tour.
The Army had mandated an extension of his three-year contract, which had been set to expire, as his unit was set to deploy to Baghdad as part of the [...]
Young people are more likely to use sexual health services if clinics are based in schools, it has emerged.
The UK’s teenage pregnancy rates are among the worst in Europe - rising by 143% from 1991 to 2001 - and the Department of Health has called for children to have better access to school-based clinics.
According to [...]
