SUNDAY, Aug. 24 (HealthDay News) — With new “extended cycle” and “continuous” oral contraceptives on the market, women today can choose to have monthly withdrawal bleeding just four times a year — or not at all. To many American women of childbearing age, these options have tremendous appeal. In fact, more than two-thirds of women [...]
Years of hard training may be to blame for the higher-than-average rates of asthma that are seen in elite swimmers, the results of a new study suggest.
The study, which compared teenage competitive swimmers with other adolescents, found that the young swimmers were no more likely than their peers to have airway hypersensitivity and respiratory symptoms [...]
WEDNESDAY, Aug. 13 (HealthDay News) — More U.S. women are availing themselves of contraceptives services, such as birth control pill prescriptions, according to a new national survey.
From 1995 to 2002, the percentage of American women who said they received contraceptive services rose from 36 percent to 41 percent, according to Jennifer J. Frost, a senior [...]
Children who attended a daycare center as infants are 35 percent less likely than their peers to have asthma symptoms by age 5, according to new research.
The British study, published in The Journal of Allergy and Clinical Immunology , found those enrolled between age 6 months and 12 months were most likely not to develop [...]
A national campaign to teach parents how to protect kids from skin infections caused by dangerous methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) bacteria was launched this week by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
MRSA, a type of staph bacteria that’s resistant to certain antibiotics, can cause severe infections in people in hospitals and other [...]
FRIDAY, March 28 (HealthDay News) — A combination of testosterone and progestin suppresses sperm production faster and more completely than testosterone alone, according to an analysis by an international team of researchers.
The scientists said that hormonal contraception may become a safe, effective and reversible form of male birth control.
“It is possible to suppress sperm output [...]
The purpose was to investigate whether clusters—based on physical activity (PA) and eating habits—can be found among children, and to explore subgroups’ characteristics. A total of 1725 10-year olds completed a self-administered questionnaire. K-means cluster analysis was based on the weekly quantity of vigorous and moderate PA, the excess index (weekly consumption of sugar and/or [...]
During adolescence, there is a steady decline in the use of sun protection and increased use of indoor tanning lights. Previous health education efforts have changed knowledge but not these behaviors. Middle school students (n = 113) received a single educational class that included personal viewing of skin changes visible under ultraviolet (UV) filtered light. [...]
This paper describes how barriers to, and facilitators of, good mental health amongst young people (11–21 years) were elucidated from a systematic review of studies of young people’s views and how these barriers and facilitators were compared with effectiveness studies to identify effective and appropriate interventions, promising interventions needing further evaluation and the need for [...]
To examine modelling of outcomes relevant to sun protection in Australian women’s magazines, content analysis was performed on 538 spring and summer issues of popular women’s magazines from 1987 to 2005. A total of 4949 full-colour images of Caucasian females were coded for depth of tan, extent of clothing cover, use of shade and setting. [...]
