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THURSDAY, May 3 (HealthDay News) -- From 1990 to 2006-2010, the
teen birth rate declined among U.S. females, according to a
study published in the May 4 issue of the U.S. Centers for
Disease Control and Prevention's Morbidity & Mortality Weekly
Report. Crystal Pirtle Tyler, Ph.D., from the National Center
for Chronic Disease Prevention and Health Promotion at the CDC
in Atlanta, and colleagues described trends in sexual experience
and contraceptive use among 15- to 19-year old females based on
nationally representative data from three survey cycles of the
National Survey of Family Growth (1995, 2002, and 2006 to 2010).
The researchers found that the U.S. teen birth rate was 34.3
births per 1,000 females in 2010, which represented a 44 percent
decrease from 1990. From