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Percentage of girls aged 13 to 18 who filled prescriptions for birth control in 2009, according to an analysis by Thomson Reuters. From 2002, prescriptions increased 50% among commercially insured teens, and 29% among teens with Medicaid. Older teens made up the majority of prescriptions, with many girls favoring Bayer's birth control pill Yaz. [via Reuters]
Married men may eat their broccoli to keep the peace at dinner, but they may be likely to binge on unhealthy food when they leave the house, a recent study by University of Michigan researchers found.
For some healthy people, exercise may actually increase heart risk, according to a paper published this week in the journal PLoS One.
Tuberculosis has been brought under control in much of the world, thanks to prevention practices and powerful antibiotics. But in poor nations like Peru, the disease still kills hundreds of babies and children — and new drug-resistant cases threaten an even bigger resurgence.
