Time has an intriguing piece on CNN.com about a Gloucester High School in Gloucester, Mass., which has 17 pregnant girls going into summer vacation. What a coincidence with another teen girl Jamie Lynn Spears giving birth to her baby girl.
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The end of California’s 15-year decline in teen pregnancy and birth rates couldn't come at a worse time for a state already in fiscal crisis. According to the No Time for Complacency: Teen Births in California report released today by the Public Health Institute (PHI), rising teen birth rates are costing California taxpayers $1.7 billion dollars a year, levying an average taxpayer cost per county of more than $29 million.
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New data showing a significant increase in the Montana teen birth rate for 2006 has drawn the attention of officials with the Department of Public Health and Human Services (DPHHS).
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More than two thirds (69%) of sexually active New York City teens use condoms, compared to 63% nationwide, according to a new survey of public high school students.
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Improving the institutional culture (ethos) of schools in the UK may help reduce substance abuse and teenage pregnancies, says an article in this week's BMJ.
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Eighty-six percent of the recent decline in U.S. teen pregnancy rates is the result of improved contraceptive use, while a small proportion of the decline (14%) can be attributed to teens waiting longer to start having sex, according to a report by John Santelli, MD, MPH, department chair and professor of Clinical Population and Family Health at the Mailman School of Public Health and published in the January issue of the American Journal of Public Health.
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