Topic: Pregnancy News – Pregnancy targets &#... Teenage pregnancy rates in the UK are the highest in Western Europe Ministers are to step up efforts to reduce teenage pregnancy rates after a report found the government was set to miss a target to halve them by 2010. The Family Education Trust charity told the Sunday Telegraph the report showed the government’s strategy was failing. While rates of pregnancy among under-18s are at their lowest for two decades,...

Pregnancy News – Having the Jamie Lynn Spear... But Jamie Lynn Spears’ pregnancy doesn’t have to be, according to Birds & Bees Connections, a local company that offers courses on adolescence for parents and children. It’s very important to acknowledge feelings and emotions at this particular time in their lives (this goes for boys as well) and brainstorm what they can do with these feelings and emotions. Explain to them that you realize that...

HIV test required during pregnancy (The Record)- T... NEWARK New Jersey will require doctors to test pregnant women for the AIDS virus, except those who opt out, under a bill signed Wednesday by acting Governor Codey. Arkansas, Michigan, Tennessee and Texas require health care providers to test mothers for HIV, unless a mother asks not to be tested, while Connecticut, Illinois and New York test all newborns for HIV, according to the foundation. The federal Centers for...