Recent Birth Control Articles page 5

Boston Globe - PORTLAND, Maine -- Reporting of juvenile sexual activity by the city's school-based health centers is likely to change. After the Portland School Committee decided last week to offer prescription birth control at the King Middle School health center ...

Baltimore Sun - The Sun's article regarding minors' access to birth control ("Access to the pill in Md. schools dates back," Oct. 19) presented a misleading analysis of teen pregnancies in a chart titled "Teen Pregnancy Rates Fall in Maryland." The chart used ...

WSTM - He says the state also will add a supplement to the Medicaid rate for Implanon and IUD's, two effective but more costly methods of birth control. Daines spoke yesterday at the annual meeting of Family Planning Advocates, a non-profit organization that ...

Maine Sunday Telegram - The Portland School Committee's decision to make prescription birth control available to students at King Middle School ignited a controversy that cuts across political parties, but Republican critics are moving aggressively to capitalize politically ...

FOX News - LONDON — The architect of the law governing abortions in Britain said the procedure was too common and that he never expected the number of terminations to rise to their current levels, a newspaper reported Wednesday. Lord David Steel, who ...

Chicago Tribune - PORTLAND, Maine - A school board will consider limiting student access to birth control pills and patches at a middle school's health center. Earlier this month, the Portland School Committee approved a plan that made King Middle School the first ...

International Herald Tribune - Schering-Plough agreed in March to acquire Organon, a leading European maker of birth-control pills, to reduce dependence on the cholesterol pills Vytorin and Zetia. As a result of the acquisition, Schering-Plough, based in Kenilworth, New Jersey ...

Iowa State Daily - Last Wednesday, the Portland, Maine, school committee made the correct move when it decided one of its middle schools' student health centers would provide more birth control options to students. King Middle School, comprising sixth through eighth ...

Minnesota Daily - ast Wednesday, a school board in Portland, Maine approved a measure that will make birth control pills available to sixth-through eighth-grade students after they have had a physical examination by a physician or nurse practitioner. This aggressive ...

Maine Sunday Telegram - A Portland School Committee member wants to give parents the power to keep their children from participating in a controversial new plan to make prescription birth control available to students at King Middle School. Benjamin Meiklejohn submitted a ...