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Plans sought to curb teen girls’ high STD rate

April 6th, 2008    Posted by: Dr. Dobson

Adolescent women have a high rate of sexually transmitted infections, and preventing these diseases needs to be an important public health goal, according to a paper presented by Centers for Disease Control and Prevention researchers at the 2008 National STD Prevention Conference in Chicago last month.

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Girls Don’t Follow Trends in Marijuana Risk, Researchers Say

March 14th, 2008    Posted by: Dr. Dobson



From:
Treatment Research Institute
600 Public Ledger Building, 150 S. Independence Mall West
Philadelphia, PA 19106
Tel: (215) 399-0980
http://www.tresearch.org

Paying substance abuse treatment providers for results, not services, may lead to improved quality of care, according to the first published study of a novel performance-based contracting system implemented by the State of Delaware in 2002.

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Nude Pose of Vanessa Hudgens, Good Girls Gone Bad

December 4th, 2006    Posted by: Dr. Dobson

Nude Pose of Vanessa Hudgens, Good Girls Gone Bad

A nude photo is floating around the Web of Vanessa Hudgens, the 18-year-old star of “High School Musical 2″ and squeaky-clean “it” girl for the tweener set. Rep for Hudgens, 18, told tmz.com that the photo was taken privately. “It is a personal matter and it is unfortunate that this has become public.” She wouldn’t say anything about who took the picture and how it slipped out onto the Internet.
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