NHS (UK), Monday March 9 2015
“Getting a good education could be the best form of contraception for teenagers,” The Independent reports after a study of recent data from England found an association between improved GCSE results and lower rates of teenage pregnancy.
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ABC Radio National Health Report, Monday 2 February 2015 5:53PM Researchers from Boston have followed 120,000 female nurses for around 40 years, looking at their health and wellbeing, including their contraception and comparing that to cause and age at death. They wanted to find out whether oral contraceptive use is associated with total and cause specific mortality. Read transcript or download...
Association Between Pornography Use and Sexual Risk Behaviors in Adult Consumers: A Systematic Review Cyberpsychology, Behavior, and Social Networking, doi:10.1089/cyber.2014.0343. Abstract: The purpose of this review was to determine whether an association exists between sexual risk behaviors and pornography consumption. Consumption of pornography is common, yet research examining its link with...
NHS, Monday January 12 2015
“Contraceptive injections moderately increase a woman’s risk of becoming infected with HIV,” The Guardian reports.
The headline was prompted by an analysis of 12 studies, but these results do not prove the injection directly increases the risk of HIV.
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