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Weekly News Roundup
March 7, 2016
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Dennis J. Barbour, JD, Editor
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Report: R.I. second in nation for preventative health care; first for HPV vaccination
Rhode Island was first for its rate of HPV vaccinations for adolescent males, at 42.9 percent. It was second in the nation at 53.7 percent for its HPV vaccination rate for adolescent females.
Providence Business News, March 4, 2016 |
Young educated men more likely to have unprotected sex
High-risk, unprotected sex is more likely for young men than women - even among educated urban populations - reveals a study, suggesting that males are at least 10 times more likely to engage in high-risk sexual behaviour than their female counterparts.
Health Site, March 4, 2016
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Bromances may be good for men's health
Male friendships, portrayed and often winked at in bromance movies, could have healthful effects similar to those seen in romantic relationships, especially when dealing with stress, according to a new study of male rats by researchers at the University of California, Berkeley.
Berkeley News, March 3, 2016
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| A Majority Of College Men Know Very Little About HPV, Study Finds
According to a new study published in the Health Education Journal, about 88 percent of undergraduate men know very little about HPV and its risks to their gender. The study, led by Theresa Hunter of the Department of Applied Health Science in Indiana University Bloomington, took a sample of 116 undergrad male students from a Midwestern university and asked them to complete a survey questionnaire on their attitudes toward the HPV vaccine. As the study found, the knowledge male undergrads had about HPV and the vaccine was very low. Because of that, the intention to get vaccinated was also very low.
Bustle, March 2, 2016
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| Risk has rewards for male teenage brain
Male teenagers tend to have a bad reputation. They are more likely to engage in binge drinking, drug use, unprotected sex, criminal activity and reckless driving.
But a recent study may reveal a silver lining to all that misbehavior. While male adolescents will take more risks with peers than when alone, it turns out peers can also encourage them to learn faster and engage in more exploratory acts.
"Risk-taking in and of itself is not a bad thing, and taking risks is one way we learn about the world around us," said study author Laurence Steinberg, professor of psychology at Temple University. "Peers may motivate each other to explore their environment in a way they might not do if they were being more cautious. Sometimes that leads to harmful consequences, but sometimes it leads to learning new things that are good, and I think that's one of the points of the paper."
Washington Post, March 1, 2016
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| Boys and Body Image: Eating Disorders Don't Discriminate
You see, as a registered dietitian, I know that eating disorders, including anorexia nervosa, bulimia nervosa and binge eating, spare no one, adolescent boys included.
Dallas News, February 29, 2016
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Hint of protection against oral HPV infection should encourage further studies on oral cancer prevention, say investigators
The quadrivalent HPV vaccine Gardasil
does not protect older adults with HIV (>27) against persistent anal infection with human papillomavirus
(HPV) or the development of HSIL, but the ACTG A5298 study showed some evidence that it may protect against persistent oral infection, Timothy Wilkin of Weill Cornell Medical College told the
Conference on Retroviruses and Opportunistic Infections (CROI 2016)
in Boston on Thursday.
AIDS Map, February 29, 2016
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