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Herckleperckle
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11-20-2003

Wednesday, May 10, 2006 - 2:25 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Herckleperckle a private message Print Post    
Hate to start this thread out with a note of warning. But I just opened my email and found this. Had to share.


Source: Ivanhoe.com
Reported May 10, 2006


College Freshmen at High Risk for Chlamydia


(Ivanhoe Newswire) -- You may want to send your child off to college armed with an arsenal of condoms, based on the findings of a new study. It reveals college freshmen younger than age 20 are 70-percent more likely to test positive for the STD chlamydia than older college students.

Researchers from Emory University School of Medicine in Atlanta found of 789 college students screened for chlamydia in the southeastern United States, 9.7 percent tested positive, while 13 percent of 263 freshmen tested positive.

Adelbert James, Ph.D., the director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention-sponsored Region IV Infertility Project, says: "The CDC recommends that women under the age of 25 who are sexually active and engage in unprotected sex be tested for chlamydia. This is very important because chlamydia causes ectopic pregnancies and infertility in young women; it is asymptomatic in 80 percent of women and 50 percent of men." He adds, "These findings underscore the importance of providing chlamydia education, screening and testing services to all students, with efforts targeting freshmen, in particular."

Dr. James says a few colleges have begun routine screening for chlamydia since his study began.


SOURCE: The 2006 National STD Prevention Conference, Jacksonville, Fla., May 8-11, 2006

Mocha
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08-12-2001

Wednesday, May 10, 2006 - 5:33 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Mocha a private message Print Post    
Hey Eeyore is this one ok?? :-)

Eeyoreslament
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07-20-2003

Thursday, May 11, 2006 - 3:09 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Eeyoreslament a private message Print Post    
LOL Mocha!!

Shashakaye
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05-19-2003

Thursday, August 03, 2006 - 9:54 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Shashakaye a private message Print Post    
My oldest DD will be starting her senior year at college this year(hopefully). She has really messed up within this past year financially(credit cards). She's back on track now, going through a credit counseling agency, but was just denied her student loan for having bad credit. Does anyone know of a place she can go through that gives student loans to students in this situation? I don't want her not to be able to attend her senior year.

Kaili
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08-31-2000

Thursday, August 03, 2006 - 9:58 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Kaili a private message Print Post    
The Dept. of Education denied her, or is her loan through a bank? My loan is a federal one- I don't even know what type though.

Shashakaye
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05-19-2003

Thursday, August 03, 2006 - 10:11 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Shashakaye a private message Print Post    
I fill out the fafsa(sp?) for her every year and she gets a federal loan for a small amount and the rest she has been getting a partnership loan. The partnership loan was the one that was denied. The federal loan that she gets doesn't cover 1/4 of her expenses.