Posts Tagged ‘pregnancy’

The Contraception Gap

By Dr. Charlie Glickman • Mar 5th, 2010 • Category: Blog

I just read an amazing report by The National Campaign to Prevent Teen and Unplanned Pregnancy called  The Fog Zone: How Misperceptions, Magical Thinking, and Ambivalence Put Young Adults at Risk for Unplanned Pregnancy (PDF). It’s a thorough and impressive bit of research about the gap between what young adults know about contraception and [...]



some new info on pulling out

By Dr. Charlie Glickman • May 15th, 2009 • Category: Blog

A new report by the Guttmacher Institute shows that withdrawal (aka pulling out and coitus interruptus) may be more effective than was previously thought. According to “Better Than Nothing or Savvy Risk-Reduction Practice? The Importance of Withdrawal,” by Rachel K. Jones et al., in the June 09 issue of Contraception, “perfect use” of withdrawal results [...]



The Belly Project

By Kuono • Mar 25th, 2009 • Category: Blog

Dr. Karen Rayne and Midwife Christy Tashjian are working on a new project involving… BELLIES.
The Belly Project (http://thebellyproject.wordpress.com)

They say:
Women (and sometimes men…you know who you are…) can be obsessed with their bodies. Hair, nails, toes, skin, breasts, hips, eyes, they all get fixated on. But perhaps nothing is as preoccupying to us as [...]