More teenage girls now use the best kinds of birth control, a new government study says. About 60 percent of teenage girls who have sex use the most effective kinds of contraception, including the pill and the patch. That is an increase from the mid-90s, when less than half were using such kinds of contraception, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention found in a study released Thursday. The study is based on a national survey of 2,300 girls ages 15 to 19, conducted between 2006 and 2010. The trend toward better contraception is helping to drive down the teenage birthrate, health officials said. Crystal Tyler, a C.D.C. epidemiologist who was a writer of the new report, said that doctors seemed to be increasingly comfortable prescribing hormonal birth control methods to teenagers.
New York Times.
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/05/04/us/georgia-study-finds-teenage-girls-are-using-better-birth-control.html?smid=fb-share
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