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Results of a new study indicate individuals who contract sexually transmitted infections (STIs) during their teen years have a greater HIV risk into young adulthood.
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It was my privilege to be on the Williams College Board of Trustees with a remarkable man, Faye Vincent. After graduating from Williams and from the law school at Yale, he became a successful lawyer and then president of Columbia Pictures, which at that time was owned by Coca Cola. So he was also a vice president of Coca Cola. Later on, he became commissioner of Major League Baseball.
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New data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) show about one in five boys got at least one of the recommended three doses of human papillomavirus (HPV) vaccine last year.
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The Food and Drug Administration has given approval to Skyla, a new intrauterine system (IUS) from Bayer HealthCare Pharmaceuticals of Wayne, NJ. Available by prescription in February 2013, Skyla is the first new intrauterine contraceptive to receive U.S. approval in more than a decade.
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Sterilization continues to be a leading contraceptive choice for women in the United States; between 2006 and 2008, 10.3 million women looked to the method for birth control.
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The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has given clearance to Cepheid of Sunnyvale, CA, to market its Xpert CT/NG test.
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According to a just-released analysis of the latest national sexually transmitted infection (STI) surveillance data, 1.4 million new cases of chlamydia were reported in the United States in 2011.
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In one of its final acts, the lame-duck 112th Congress did something unprecedented over its two-year term: It expanded access to publicly financed abortion, ever so slightly.