10/31/07: From Colorado
Public Radio
LATINA TEEN PREGNANCY HIGH IN COLORADO
Lori Casillas, Executive Director of COAPPP, and
Alma Aranda, Metro Community Provider Network,
discuss teen pregnancy rates among the Latino
community.
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10/30/07: From The Denver
Post
DO SCHOOLS HAVE BIRTH-CONTROL ROLE?
Health clinics in
six Denver high schools should be allowed to
dispense birth control and emergency contraceptive
pills, according to a new report by a health task
force.
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10/28/07: From The Pueblo Chieftain
Teen
pregnancy remains major problem in Pueblo
Dr. Christine Nevin-Woods, director of the
Pueblo City-County Health Department, discusses the
growing problem of teen pregnancy in Pueblo.
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10/24/07: From
kaisernetwork.org
Senate Passes Labor-HHS-Education Bill After
Removing Amendments Related to Abstinence Education,
Stem Cell Research The Senate passed
HR 3043 after
removing an amendment that would have prohibited
federally funded abstinence education programs from
using medically inaccurate information in their
curricula.
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10/22/07: From
kaisernetwork.org
New York
City Department of Education Recommends
'Research-Based' Sex Education Curriculum for City
High Schools The New York City
Department of Education on Thursday announced it
would recommend the "research-based" sex education
curriculum, Reducing the Risk at all high schools in
the city, the AP/Long Island Newsday reports.
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10/19/07: From
kaisernetwork.org
HPV TEST MORE ACCURATE THAN PAP TEST AT DETECTING
CERVICAL CANCER Human papillomavirus tests
are more accurate than Pap tests in the detection of
cervical cancer and precancerous changes in the
cervix, according to two studies published on
Thursday in the New England Journal of Medicine, the
Wall Street Journal reports (Tomsho, Wall Street
Journal, 10/18).
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10/18/07: From The Denver
Post
MAINE SCHOOL TO OFFER CONTRACEPTIVES King
Middle School will become the first middle school in
Maine, and apparently one of only a few in the
nation, to make a full range of contraception
available, including birth-control pills and
patches.
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10/2/07: From
kaisernetwork.org
JENNA BUSH LAUNCHES BOOK TOUR, AIMS TO GET TEENAGERS
INVOLVED IN ISSUES INCLUDING HIV/AIDS
First daughter Jenna
Bush on Saturday in Annapolis, Md., launched a
three-month, 25-city tour to promote her nonfiction
book, titled "Ana's Story: A Journey of Hope," that
profiles a 17-year-old single mother in Panama who
is HIV-positive, the Washington Post reports (Argetsinger,
Washington Post, 9/30).
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