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Is it Possible to Get Pregnant on Birth Control?
Sometimes precautions fail and unplanned pregnancies occur, even when you’re careful. While the birth control pill is quite effective, you can get pregnant on the pill. With perfect use, the pill is more than 99 percent effective; however, typical use failure rates are around 8 percent. Daily life may interfere, causing you to miss pills, and other medications can lower the pill’s effectiveness. In some cases, even with perfect use, pregnancy results.
Preventing Risky Behavior
The statistics are frightening: *One-in-four girls aged 14-19 in the United States have at least one of the five most common sexually transmitted diseases (STDs), based on data analyzed by the CDC.
The Best Sleeping Position for a Baby
One of the lessons drummed into new mothers and fathers is the importance of sleeping position for babies during the first year of life. Knowing that sleeping position has been linked to occurrences of SIDS—sudden infant death syndrome—today’s parents are understandably eager to know the best way to put their babies to sleep. Although medical researchers have not yet come to a consensus on how to prevent all cases of SIDS, amazing strides have been made since the introduction of the Back to Sleep Campaign in the 1980s, which has reduced the number of babies who die from SIDS by as much as 50 percent. The best thing you can do to lower your baby’s risk of SIDS is to put your baby to sleep in the recommended sleeping position.
The Health Benefits of Yoga
Historically, much of the research that has been done on the health benefits of yoga has been conducted in India. Only in the last several decades, as interest in yoga practice swept the nation, have American researchers begun to examine the topic in replicable scientific studies.
How Potent is Your Anti-Aging Cocktail?
I walk into Vitamin World and the walls close in. My head starts to spin as if on a swivel. The lights go dim. Find your happy place, I whisper to myself before my panic has a chance to kick in. But its too late, I am overwhelmed. I …