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Article: Web sites often mislead teens about sexual health.(BEHAVIORAL PEDIATRICS)
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- Pediatric News
- Article date:
- June 1, 2009
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LOS ANGELES -- Teens cruising mainstream Web sites can hardly be faulted for thinking that emergency contraception is difficult to obtain, birth control pills will make them fat, and IUDs are meant for older women, not adolescents.
That's because incomplete and inaccurate information abounds on the Internet, even within very well-known Web sites, according to an analysis performed in 2008 by Stanford (Calif. University researchers.
"We found a lot of myths about IUDs, emergency contraception birth control, and when women should be getting Pap smears, especially their first one." said Alisha T. Tolani a student in the human biology program at the ...