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Teacher-led sex education of limited benefit
Improvements in teacher-delivered sex education have some beneficial effect on the quality of young people’s sexual relationships, but do not reduce sexual risk taking in adolescents, finds a study in this week’s BMJ.   view more (2002-06-12)

'Corrective' sex education may make sexual offenders more dangerous
While it is commonly thought that men with low IQs sexually offend because of a lack of knowledge or sexual deviance, new research has found the men may sexually offend because of their exposure to "corrective" sex education previously taken.   view more (2007-10-17)

Mixed Results For Study Assesing Effectiveness Of Peer-Led Sex Education
Results of a study in this week's issue of THE LANCET suggest a modest benefit for the use of peers (older pupils) to deliver sex-education classes rather than teachers. However the study does not show any effect of such peer-led sex education in reducing the incidence of unprotected first intercourse by age 16 years.    The UK has... view more... (2004-07-21)

Sex Education Taught By Pupils - A New Approach To Tackling Pregnancy And Infection.
Researchers carrying out a major new Medical Research Council study said today (23 July 2004), that sex education delivered by teenagers for teenagers could be a promising way forward if we are to tackle some of the major sexual health problems facing the UK today. The MRC study known as RIPPLE (A Randomised Intervention trial of Pupil-led sex... view more... (2004-07-22)

Most US adults in favor of more balanced approach to sex education in schools
The majority of U.S. adults, regardless of political affiliation, support a more balanced approach to sex education in schools, including teaching children about both abstinence and other methods of preventing pregnancy and sexually transmitted diseases.   view more (2006-11-07)

Launch of handbook for European sex workers - UK press briefing
Drawing directly from the experience of sex workers, Hustling for Health is a practical guide which promotes health and safety in the sex industry through better access to good services. The guide was produced by a network of projects in health care, social services and the sex industry in 16 European countries, and has been supported by the... view more... (1999-06-03)

Elderly women have better mental ability than men, despite less formal education
Elderly women have a better mental function than men despite their lower level of formal education, conclude Dutch researchers in the Journal of Neurology, Neurosurgery and Psychiatry. These findings challenge the view that a limited formal education is associated with lower mental ability and suggest that biological differences between men and... view more... (2001-06-14)

A new explanation for evolutionary changes in genetic sex-determination systems
In animals with separate sexes, embryos commit to becoming male or female at an early stage. Often this key decision is made by sex determination genes on the sex chromosomes. The genes involved in sexual development have changed remarkably little during evolution. In contrast, the sex determination genes and the sex chromosomes themselves are... view more... (2007-10-22)

When it comes to abstinence teens, adults aren't speaking the same language
Abstinence can mean different things to adolescents than to adults. That's one reason why abstinence-only programs do not have strong effects in preventing teenage sexual activity, according to new University of Washington research.   view more (2008-08-07)

Infant girls in India twice as likely to die as boys
In India, infant girls are twice as likely to die as boys because girls are regarded and treated less favourably. There are also a large number of unexplained female deaths, which may be considered as deaths under suspicious circumstances, argue researchers in this week’s BMJ.   view more (2003-07-16)

Study shows that anal cytology predicts anal precancer in HIV-positive gay men
HIV-positive men who have sex with men are up to 90 times more likely than the general population to develop anal cancer. Detection of precancerous changes (anal dysplasia) by anal cytology — essentially an anal canal Pap smear — is a relatively new procedure and one that has yet to enter standard practice.   view more (2007-03-22)

One-off lesson improves teenagers` knowledge of emergency contraception
A single lesson on emergency contraception, given by a trained teacher, improves teenagers' knowledge of the correct time limits for using emergency contraception, finds a study in this week's BMJ. Researchers recruited 1,974 boys and 1,820 girls in year 10 (14-15 years old) from 24 mixed sex, state secondary schools in south west England. Trained... view more... (2002-05-14)

Thirty per cent of school children have sex before they're sixteen
A survey of 931 school children has found that 31 per cent had reported that they had had sex at least once before they were 16. 'Half of these children had not used any form of contraception during these sexual encounters,' said Professor Louise Wallace at the joint British Psychological Society's Division of Health Psychology and European... view more... (2001-08-30)

People with dementia survive on average 4 and a half years after diagnosis
People with dementia survive an average of four and a half years after diagnosis, with age, sex, and existing disability all having an influence on life expectancy, finds a study published on bmj.com today.   view more (2008-01-11)

Working too much can be dangerous for teen's sexual health
Allowing teens to work too many hours in the wrong environment can be dangerous for their sexual health by fostering conditions that lead them to older sex partners, a new study shows.   view more (2009-08-27)

Why don't more animals change their sex?
Most animals, like humans, have separate sexes - they are born, live out their lives and reproduce as one sex or the other. However, some animals live as one sex in part of their lifetime and then switch to the other sex, a phenomenon called sequential hermaphroditism.   view more (2009-02-04)

Computers in the classrooom: girls lose out in the boy zone
Boys dominate computers in the classroom, and young girls still see the computer as predominantly a 'male preserve' according to research presented today, Tuesday 15 December, to The British Psychological Society's London Conference, held at the Institute of Education, by psychologists Dr Helen Fitzpatrick (Strathclyde University) and Dr Margaret... view more... (1998-12-03)

Fungi can tell us about the origin of sex chromosomes
Fungi do not have sexes, just so-called mating types. A new study being published today in the prestigious journal PLoS shows that there are great similarities between the parts of DNA that determine the sex of plants and animals and the parts of DNA that determine mating types in certain fungi.   view more (2008-03-18)

Double identities lie behind chromosome disorders
Chromosome disorders in sex cells cause infertility, miscarriage and irregular numbers of chromosomes (aneuploidy) in neonates. A new study from Karolinska Institutet published in the scientific journal Nature Genetics shows how chromosome disorders can arise when sex cells are formed.   view more (2007-07-09)

Sex unlikely to cause a stroke and may reduce risk of sudden death
Middle aged men should be heartened to know that frequent sex is not likely to increase their risk of stroke. It may actually reduce the risk of sudden death, suggests research in the Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health.   view more (2002-01-15)
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