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Yesterday I spoke with a reporter about teen pregnancy and have been stewing over something she said ever since. She suggested that the"teen pregnancy" media in the last year or so, including films like Knocked Up and Juno, Jamie Lynn's pregnancy,...
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Have you seen the movie" Juno?". It is a great movie about teenage pregnancy, but I have to admit, it pretty much normalizes teen pregnancy, continues the myth that it is"the girl's problem," and presents a year of Juno's life as just a blip- the ...
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The annual summary from the National Center for Health Statistics and the Centers for Disease Prevention and Control for 2006(most recent data) support my simple observations in the trenches that began a few years back. Teen pregnancy rose 3% in 2...
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So sorry to say- it is not abstinence!. The January 2007 issue of the American Journal of Public Health includes an article that reports the declining adolescent pregnancy rates in the United States between 1995 and 2002 were primarily due to impr...
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The reader below underwent combined first trimester screening for aneuploidy and during the process, the baby was found to have an absent nasal bone. Due to the difficulty in routinely obtaining a definitive assessment of the nasal bone, and its c...
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Do not provide your children with real sex education. If you want to increase your child's chance of having an unintended pregnancy, teach only abstinence and do not discuss contraception or condom use. 2.
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Recently, I received a phone call from our billing office reporting that an insurance company had declined to reimburse us for a claim that included charges for Doppler flow velocimetry for the indication of intrauterine growth restriction(IUGR). ...
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Below is a series of excellent questions and my responses related to first trimester screening from a woman who has an IVF pregnany and twins... At Fri Jun 27, 06:53:00 AM 2008, Anonymous said Hi: How reliable is first trimester screening(FTS) in ...
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In our last post, we described the condition called Ashermans syndrome wherein scarring of the intrauterine cavity can cause aberrations of menstrual bleeding(in the most extreme cases very light or absent periods), infertility, recurrent pregnanc...
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Thanks to The Happy Hospitalist for the effort and the humor put into this week's rendition of Grand Rounds. I am thankful and quite grateful that he chose to include my recent post on"Teen Pregnancy: We ARE Failing Our Children.".
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In addition, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention( CDC) suggests: youth are having less intercourse; using more contraception, and that there was 30% less teen pregnancy between 1994 and 2004. Now the bad news!.
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Today is Prematurity Awareness Day. At a local press conference sponsored by the March of Dimes, I had the opportunity to discuss some of my thoughts on this subject with a reporter.
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The reader whose comments are featured below has had two miscarriages associated with chromosomally abnormal babies. She also has several medical problems that may or may not decrease her chances for a successful pregnancy.
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Thanks to Dr. David Khorram at Marianas Eye for hosting and all the effort put into this week's Grand Rounds 4.39.
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