A recent examination of a two-year study at the University of Minnesota is giving health care professionals an encouraging look at the future of care for girls at high risk of teen pregnancy.

The results appeared this week in JAMA Pediatrics.

Renee Sieving, R.N., Ph.D., an associate professor in the School of Nursing, and an interdisciplinary team of researchers created an intervention program called Prime Time to study the effects of immediate and immersive intervention in the lives of teenage girls identified for sexual health risk behaviors.

February is National Condom Month … and, if you didn’t already know, February 14th is National Condom Day.

When it comes to birth control for men, National Condom Day seems like an appropriate commemoration, because while women can choose from an array of female condoms, pills, contraceptive injections and more, men are limited to either condoms or a more permanent option: the vasectomy.

So why, after years of research, do we still lack an in-between: a male birth control pill?

As it turns out, one University of Minnesota expert may soon have the answer.