Gen Y asked to record sex views to help health study
Written by news.com.au on Wednesday, 12 August 2009Sex files ... health professionals want to know what Gen Y think of sex so they can provide better health services
Doctor's orders to corrupt minds
Written by Ann-Louise Brown - Sunshine Coast Daily on Wednesday, 12 August 2009DR Peter Vardy describes his job as "corrupting young minds". Yesterday Mr Vardy, a renowned academic, ethicist and philosopher from the University of London, addressed more than 300 Year 12 students from independent schools across the Sunshine Coast at Immanuel Lutheran College.
Clinic wins the right to use pill for abortions
Written by Nick Miller - Sydney Morning Herald on Monday, 10 August 2009Medical abortion is about to become more widely available, after a sexual health clinic won the right to use the so-called abortion pill RU486 in its clinics.
Dispensing the abortion pill RU486 from community-based clinics will not lead to more terminations, says the not-for-profit sexual-health service behind the move. Marie Stopes International has successfully applied the Therapeutic Goods Administration to have 14 of its doctors listed as authorised prescribers of the drug mifepristone (RU486).
DISPENSING the abortion pill RU486 from community- based clinics will not lead to more terminations, says the not-for profit sexual health service behind the move. Marie Stopes International has successfully applied to the nation's health regulator to have 14 of its doctors listed as authorised prescribers of the drug mifepristone (RU486). These doctors can now provide the drug to women - up to nine weeks into their pregnancy - from nine clinics across Victoria, NSW, Queensland, the ACT and Western Australia.
One step forward, two back, in fight for reproductive rights
Written by Leslie Cannold - The Age on Tuesday, 11 August 2009RU486 is available, but in Queensland a teenager is charged over an abortion.
TWO southeast Queensland sexual health clinics have started prescribing the controversial abortion drug RU486 to women seeking a termination in the first nine weeks of pregnancy.
Greater access to abortion drug
Written by Natasha Rudra - Canberra Times on Tuesday, 11 August 2009ACT politicians have reacted cautiously to the introduction of the abortion drug RU-486 to a non-profit health clinic. Canberra women will gain wider access to RU-486 this week after the sexual health organisation Marie Stopes received approval to prescribe the drug.
MEDICAL abortion is about to become more widely available across Australia, after not-for- profit sexual health organisation Marie Stopes International won the right to use the so-called "abortion pill" RU486 in its clinics. From today the drug, also known as Mifepristone, will be offered as an alternative to surgical abortion by 14 doctors at MSI's nine centres in Victoria, NSW, the ACT, Western Australia and Queensland.
Having sex without using a condom is good for your mental health, according to a controversial new study.
