Today, in its Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention released its Assisted Reproductive Technology Surveillance Summary for 2009.
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CDC Updates Gonorrhea Treatment Guidelines
Today, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) released updated guidelines for the treatment of the sexually transmitted disease gonorrhea in response to significant increases in documented cases throughout the US to the resistance of antibiotics in treating the disease.
Babies Who Drink Before They’re Born
by S. Fenella Das Gupta, Ph.D., Neuroscience
According to a new CDC study (of more than 340,000 self reports between the ages of 18 and 44), about 1 in 13 women drink while pregnant. Among pregnant women, the highest prevalence of reported …
CDC Seeks Comments on Draft National Action Plan on Infertility
The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is requesting comment on its draft National Public Action Plan for the Detection, Prevention and Management of Infertility. ASRM members may recall the outline for a draft plan was developed in 2010 by an infertility working group within the CDC’s Division of Reproductive Health.
CDC – Fewer Teens Having Sex, More Using Contraception
A survey, conducted by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, found that 56.7 percent of older teen girls had never had vaginal intercourse. That’s an increase of 16 percent since 1995 and reflects a steady downward trend in teen sex. Of those teens who had had sex, 59.8 percent were using what CDC considers “highly effective” forms of contraception, an even larger increase of 26 percent.
Increased Contraception Use Leads to All Time Low in Teen Birth Rate
The most recent decline in teen births can be linked almost exclusively to improvements in teens’ contraceptive use, according to data from another CDC survey, the National Survey of Family Growth (NSFG).