The number of Americans newly infected with the sexually transmitted diseases chlamydia and syphilis continues to rise, federal health officials reported Tuesday, with chlamydia infections hitting a record million-plus new cases annually.
The numbers, from 2007, show that cases of chlamydia as well as syphilis rose for the third year in a row, according to a report by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).
“The bad news from last year has continued,” said Dr. John M. Douglas Jr., director of the CDC’s Division of STD Prevention. “These infections remain at very high levels, and frankly, unacceptably high.”
(WASHINGTON) — More women in their early 40s are childless, and those who are having children are having fewer than ever before, the Census Bureau said Monday.
In the last 30 years, the number of women age 40 to 44 with no children has doubled, from 10 percent to 20 percent. And those who are mothers have an average of 1.9 children each, more than one child fewer than women of the same age in 1976. Read more
