IN SPITE OF scientific and medical advances in recent years, the AIDS pandemic remains the greatest public health crisis of our time. Each day 6,000 people die of AIDS and there are 7,000 new infections. These statistics are difficult to comprehend until you see the faces of those most often affected - young women, between [...]
At a time when San Bernardino County has one of the highest teen pregnancy rates in the state, several area school districts are not offering enough lessons in sexual health education in the classroom, according to a report released Wednesday.
Sexual Health Education in Public Schools, a Guide for Parents, issued by Planned Parenthood of Orange [...]
“It’s time for public action against this scourge,” said Valerie Boyer, the bill’s author and a member of France’s ruling party, who said that as many as 40,000 French people, mostly girls and young women, suffer from anorexia. Some lawmakers, fashion industry representatives and advertisers criticized the measure, saying the courts should not be [...]
Many popular notions about the health benefits of water apparently aren’t true - or there is no scientific proof to back them up. That’s the conclusion of two University of Pennsylvania researchers - Stanley Goldfarb and Dan Negoianu - who combed the medical literature for evidence of water’s supposed medicinal properties. [...]
In the first, a 17-year-old girl was walking alone on Friday between 8pm and 8.30pm when three men accosted her on Belfast St, Newtown.
She was punched repeatedly in the stomach and her purse and camera were stolen.
The victim was wearing a light coloured Adidas hoodie.
The second attack took place at around 2.45am today in suburban [...]
The laddish culture promoted by mens magazines has spawned a new medical
condition: athletica nervosa, or an obsession with exercise.
New research shows that the magazines, whose titillating displays of female
flesh were meant to liberate their readers from political correctness, may
be trapping them into an unhealthy obsession with their own bodies.
Some readers become so anxious about their [...]
Last week, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reported the results of a study it conducted of girls ages 14 to 19. The study found that one in four teenage girls has an STD. That’s more than 3 million teens. Nearly half of the black girls [...]
Admitting that they couldn’t create a baby together was painful enough. But finding an Indian woman willing to donate her eggs — someone from their own culture — proved agonizingly difficult. “I was very upset, thinking we can’t fail at this too,” Rajiv said [...]
“It’s like eating too many brownies one day and then jogging extra the next,” said Kimberly Danek Pinkson, 38, the founder of the EcoMom Alliance, speaking to the group of attempts to curb eco-guilt through carbon offsets for air travel.
Part “Hints from Heloise” and part political self-help group, the alliance, which [...]
The Americans also do an excellent line in cool political offspring. George Bush’s daughter, Jenna, has long enjoyed a reputation as the White House’s wild child, with her penchant for partying hard and using dodgy fake IDs to buy frat-party beer kegs. Chelsea Clinton counts Gwyneth Paltrow among her friends and is named after a [...]
