If you find out what their intentions are, you may be able to prevent them from causing a pregnancy.

Clearly, if you ask a teenage boy if he plans on pregnancy, he will probably say no. But just because he doesn't plan to get someone pregnant, that doesn't mean he won't. In order to address teenage pregnancy, we need to ask the questions in different ways.

The problem is that most male adolescents don't have discussions about reproductive health-care issues when they go to access health services. So medical health-care professionals should be aware that that's something they should be talking about with their male patients -- not just their female patients.

Males inform how often intercourse takes place and whether or not condoms are used. Males can influence how the female feels about pregnancy, whether or not she'll have an abortion, and how the baby will be raised once it's born. And yet our work is one of the first of its kind because we focus on males, while most adolescent pregnancy work has focused only on females and their attitudes on pregnancy.

What you see in these results is that helping women avoid unintended pregnancy is not just a blue-state issue.

It doesn't dissolve blood clots, but it will help prevent them from growing and causing heart attacks,