Sex-Disease Chlamydia Rife Among Japanese Teens
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More than 10 percent of Japanese teenagers who were screened for a sexual disease that can cause infertility tested positive, a newspaper reported, adding to concerns about increasing sexual activity among Japan's youth.
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Young people should be encouraged to consider abstaining from sex as one of the options for protecting themselves against the epidemic of sexually transmitted infections sweeping the UK, the Health Protection Agency suggested yesterday.
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LONDON (Agence de Presse Medicale) - British teenagers will be able to get text messages about contraception and safe sex as part of a campaign to reduce the high number of unwanted pregnancies and sexually transmitted infections, a charity announced.
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Two New Yorkers have been diagnosed with a rare sexually transmitted disease that is spreading among gay and bisexual men in Europe, the city health commissioner said on Wednesday.
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NEW YORK  - Delinquent and at-risk teens who complete a brief computer-based program designed to reduce risky sexual behaviors are less likely to have sex and more likely to have sex with fewer partners, after completing the program, a new study shows.
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NEW YORK  - Many young men could use a bit more instruction on proper condom use, according to lead author of a new study that found nearly one in three experienced recent condom breakage.
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Sex education in school may  encourage teenagers to put off having sexual intercourse, the  results of a U.S. government study suggests.
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Laws that would require parents to be notified when teens seek birth control would do little to curb underage sex and could cause a troubling number of girls to engage in unsafe intercourse, a survey of teens in 33 states suggests.
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More than a quarter of U.S. girls and women ages 14 to 59 are infected with the sexually transmitted human wart virus, which causes most cases of cervical cancer, U.S. health officials estimated on Tuesday.
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Japan&#39;s Health Ministry reported a record 209 new HIV/AIDS infections in the July through September quarter, with most victims in their 20s or 30s.
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US teenagers are waiting longer to engage in sexual intercourse and an overwhelming majority of those who are sexually active report using contraception, according to a comprehensive, well-respected government survey.
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MOST of the new HIV/AIDS cases reported locally occur among persons between ages 15 and 24, according to Dr Yitades Gebre, a senior medical officer at the Ministry of Health.
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The long decline in sexual activity among U.S. teenagers, hailed as one of the nation's most important social and public health successes, appears to have stalled.
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A rare and potentially serious sexually transmitted disease has turned up in a few patients in San Francisco, prompting health officials to issue a public warning.
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THURSDAY, Oct. 7 (HealthDayNews) -- More thorough screening for chlamydia, a sexually transmitted bacterium that is the most commonly reported infectious disease in the United States, would probably reduce the incidence of the disease and be cost-effective as well, researchers say.
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The first "map" of teen sexual behavior gives new meaning to the old warning that you don't just have sex with a person, but with everyone that person ever had sex with, researchers said on Monday.
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NEW YORK  - A relatively new sexually transmitted infection has surpassed Neisseria gonorrhea in prevalence among young adults in the US, according to a new study.