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    Xavier Becerra, President Biden's nominee for secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services, contended with critics of abortion rights on the first day of his confirmation hearings Tuesday.
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    'It's a Minefield': Biden's Pick For Health Secretary Faces Abortion Politics

    Feb 24, 2021
    As California's attorney general, Xavier Becerra fought Trump-era restrictions on reproductive health. If confirmed, he'll navigate an even more difficult legal and political landscape.
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    According to a review published in 2018, nearly 75% of the drugs approved by the Food and Drug Administration in the 21st century had no data associated with their use during pregnancy.
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    Protect Pregnant Women 'Through Research,' Not 'From Research,' OB-GYNs Urge

    Jan 25, 2021
    As COVID-19 vaccines roll out, doctors say it's long past time to address the exclusion of pregnant women from research on drugs and vaccines. They say better study design is the answer.
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    An illustration shows medical student Elizabeth Blackwell at Geneva Medical College (later Hobart College) in upstate New York, as she eyes a note dropped onto her arm by a male student, during a lecture in the college's operating room.
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    'Doctors Blackwell' Tells The Story Of 2 Pioneering Sisters Who Changed Medicine

    Jan 19, 2021
    Elizabeth Blackwell was the first woman in America to earn her medical degree. Her sister Emily followed in her footsteps. Janice Nimura tells the story of the "complicated, prickly" trailblazers.
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    Roughly 40% of women surveyed by the Guttmacher Institute said they changed their plans on when to have children, or how many to have.
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    Survey: Women Are Rethinking Having Kids As They Face Pandemic Challenges

    Jun 24, 2020
    A survey from the Guttmacher Institute finds that roughly one-third of women say they plan to delay having children, or have fewer, even as they are experiencing difficulty obtaining contraception.
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    Elections
    Former Vice President Joe Biden addresses a Planned Parenthood Action Fund candidate forum in June 2019 in Columbia, S.C. The group declined to back a candidate during the Democratic primaries but announced its support for Biden on Monday.
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    Planned Parenthood Backs Biden, Seeing A 'Life And Death Election' Ahead

    Jun 15, 2020
    Planned Parenthood Action Fund endorses former Vice President Joe Biden despite a mixed record on abortion rights. To support Democrats, the group is boosting spending by 50% over the 2016 campaign.
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    Shots - Health News
    Doctors should start screening all women and girls for anxiety, according a prominent women's health group.
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    All Women Should Be Screened For Anxiety Disorders, Health Group Says

    Jun 11, 2020
    Women suffer from anxiety at nearly twice the rate of men, and a coalition of women's health groups says all teenage girls and women should be screened.
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    Shots - Health News
    Roughly 1 in 10 infants were born prematurely in the U.S. in 2018, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. The drug Makena is widely prescribed to women at high risk of going into labor early, though the latest research suggests the
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    Drug To Prevent Premature Birth Divides Doctors, Insurers And FDA Experts

    Jan 24, 2020
    An expert panel convened by the FDA says the drug Makena should be withdrawn from the market because a review of its effectiveness shows it doesn't work. But OB-GYNS who prescribe the drug disagree.
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    Doctors are performing pelvic exams and Pap smears on girls and young women that may be unnecessary.
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    Teen Girls Don't Need Routine Pelvic Exams. Why Are Doctors Doing So Many?

    Jan 09, 2020
    Guidelines around the procedures have changed, but physicians' habits haven't, according to a new study.
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    7 Women's Health Topics We Need To Talk About In 2020

    Jan 02, 2020
    Shame and taboo have kept many issues affecting women's bodies from getting the attention they deserve. Women are ready to start new conversations about their health.
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    A Massachusetts woman who had an abortion when she was 15 stands outside the Suffolk County Courthouse in Boston. Right now, girls facing that decision who don't want to tell their parents must get a judge's approval.
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    Massachusetts May Drop Requirement That Minors Get Permission For Abortion

    Jan 02, 2020
    The state now requires women and girls under 18 to obtain permission from their parents or a judge. But in a recent poll, most Massachusetts voters favored letting minors decide on their own.
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    Placenta purveyors often dehydrate and grind a new mother's placenta to a powder, then add it to a pill capsule. Generally, the goal is to increase her milk production, energy and mood, but scientists dispute such benefits.
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    Opinion: Placenta-Eating Went Mainstream When Many Doctors Stopped Listening

    Dec 27, 2019
    Preparers of pills made from placental tissue have gained online momentum, claiming to support each new mom in her slog to recovery. A historian traces the trend to a mother's need to be heard.
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    Students in Alice Henshaw's Wilderness Medical Associates CPR training course can practice on a Womanikin, designed to help trainees understand that compressions should be performed the same way on women's bodies as men's.
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    Meet The Womanikin, The Breasted Vest Working To Close The CPR Gender Gap

    Dec 07, 2019
    Studies show women are less likely to receive CPR in public than men. A manikin sleeve with silicone breasts might be part of the solution.
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    A progesterone pill held between a woman's fingers.
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    Safety Problems Lead To Early End For Study Of 'Abortion Pill Reversal'

    Dec 05, 2019
    Three of the 12 women enrolled in a study of progesterone to reverse a medication-based abortion required ambulance transport to a hospital for treatment of severe vaginal bleeding.
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    Bridget Desmukes (center) and her husband, Jeffrey, love having a big, active family. "The kids are always climbing on things, flipping all the time — it's not dull," she says, laughing. Because Desmukes had developed preeclampsia in a previous pregnan
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    A Daily Baby Aspirin Could Help Many Pregnancies And Save Lives

    Sep 16, 2019
    Pregnant women at high or even moderate risk of developing the life-threatening condition preeclampsia should consider taking a very small dose of aspirin daily to prevent it, doctors say.
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    National
    Rebecca Gomperts says that the government has seized abortion drugs she has prescribed from overseas to patients in the U.S. The drugs are approved by the FDA to induce abortion under a doctor's direction.
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    European Doctor Who Prescribes Abortion Pills To U.S. Women Online Sues FDA

    Sep 09, 2019
    A federal lawsuit seeks to block the Food and Drug Administration from taking enforcement actions against a European doctor or her U.S.-based patients for prescribing or buying abortion pills online.
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    In <em>The Vagina Bible</em>, gynecologist Jen Gunter dispels myths about the female body.
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    'Vagina Bible' Tackles Health And Politics In A Guide To Female Physiology

    Aug 27, 2019
    Frustrated with online marketing sites that peddle needless "health aids" and fears, gynecologist and columnist Jen Gunter aims to dispel myths about the female body and restore power to patients.
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    Mahmee CEO Melissa Hanna (right) and her mother Linda Hanna (left) co-founded the company in 2014. Linda's more than 40 years of clinical experience as a registered nurse and certified lactation consultant helped them understand the need, they say.
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    This App Aims To Save New Moms' Lives

    Aug 18, 2019
    The startup Mahmee hopes to help OB-GYNs, pediatricians and other health providers closely monitor a mother and baby's health so that any red flags can be assessed before they become life-threatening.
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    National
    Unless a federal court intervenes, Planned Parenthood says it will formally withdraw from the nation's family planning program for low-income people.
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    Planned Parenthood To Withdraw From Title X, Unless Court Intervenes

    Aug 14, 2019
    Planned Parenthood officials asked for a stay against new Trump administration rules that forbid organizations receiving Title X funds to provide or refer patients for abortion.
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    In the Tennessee capitol, state Rep. Matthew Hill took heat from abortion-rights proponents last month who had gathered to protest a bill he favored that would ban abortions after about six weeks' pregnancy. That legislation was eventually thwarted in th
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    Republican State Lawmakers Split Over Anti-Abortion Strategy

    Apr 12, 2019
    Ohio is the latest Republican-led state to pass a ban on abortion once a fetal heartbeat can be detected. But Tennessee this week backed off on a similar bill, fearing costly legal battles. What now?
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    Shots - Health News
    "The optimist in me says in three years we can train this tool to read mammograms as well as an average radiologist," says Connie Lehman, chief of breast imaging at Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston.
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    Training A Computer To Read Mammograms As Well As A Doctor

    Apr 01, 2019
    Artificial intelligence is now being brought to bear on mammograms and could improve the accuracy of diagnoses. But previous computerized technology to do that didn't live up to the hype.
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    The American College of Obstetrics and Gynecology says suggestions that a medical abortion can be reversed after more than an hour has passed aren't supported by scientific evidence.
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    Controversial 'Abortion Reversal' Regimen Is Put To The Test

    Mar 22, 2019
    Several states require doctors who perform medical abortions to tell their patients the procedure can be "reversed" with progesterone. There's an absence of evidence to support that contention.
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    For most of us, the benefits of a walk greatly outweigh the risks, doctors say. Get off the couch now.
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    Walk Your Dog, But Watch Your Footing: Bone Breaks Are On The Rise

    Mar 11, 2019
    Maybe it's just because a large number of older people have learned the benefits of exercise and canine companionship. Whatever the reason, walking a dog on a leash has been linked to more fractures.
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    Their research is still in early stages, but Kristin Myers (left), a mechanical engineer, and Dr. Joy Vink, an OB-GYN, both at Columbia University, have already learned that cervical tissue is a more complicated mix of material than doctors ever realized
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    Scientific Duo Gets Back To Basics To Make Childbirth Safer

    Feb 18, 2019
    Remarkably little is known about the fundamentals of how a woman carries a baby inside her. Two Columbia University researchers aim to change that, to reduce the number of kids born too soon.
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    Dramatic decreases in deaths from lung cancer among African-Americans were particularly notable, according to the American Cancer Society.
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    Racial Disparities In Cancer Incidence And Survival Rates Are Narrowing

    Feb 14, 2019
    African-Americans still have the highest death rate and the lowest survival rate of any U.S. racial or ethnic group for most cancers. But the "cancer gap" between blacks and whites is shrinking.
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    Chronic pain is just one health concern women can struggle with after giving birth. Some who have complicated pregnancies or deliveries can experience long-lasting effects to their physical and mental health, researchers find.
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    '4th Trimester' Problems Can Have Long-Term Effects On A Mom's Health

    Jan 24, 2019
    A woman's health issues related to pregnancy don't always end at the baby's birth. Scientists say complications from childbirth, such as hypertension or diabetes, increase her risk of heart disease.

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