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Discouraging teenage girls from becoming pregnant

Last week’s NHS figures showing that one in four young women lost their virginity when they were below the legal age of consent, coupled with the recent Daily Telegraph revelation that the morning-after pill will soon be just a phon [...]

Posted On : Dec, 19 2011 | Comments : 0

Mother's smoking in pregnancy linked to girls' puberty

Women who smoke heavily during pregnancy tend to have daughters who start menstruating months earlier than the daughters of women who did not smoke during their pregnancy. Previous studies have found evidence that women who start me [...]

Posted On : Dec, 18 2010 | Comments : 0

Testing schoolgirls for pregnancy not likely to cut number o...

N’gombeni High School principal Cornelius Maganga makes no secret of the fact that teenage mothers are not welcome at his school. He tells of one student who hid her pregnancy and went home to deliver. “When she came back we tol [...]

Posted On : Dec, 23 2009 | Comments : 0

BPA in womb linked to aggression in girls

Pregnant women exposed to a common chemical found in plastics are more likely to have daughters with aggressive and hyperactive behaviours, a new study that tested two-year-olds suggests. Last year, Canada banned bisphenol A in plastic bab [...]