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Mar 27

U.S. to require breast density information after mammograms

By Matthew Perrone, Associated Press

The Food and Drug Administration's proposed rules would standardize the information given to millions of women following scans to detect breast cancer.

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Mar 20

What we know about the FDA’s new postpartum depression drug

By Laura Santhanam

A new treatment could offer much-needed help to some new mothers with this disorder, but questions remain about how affordable or accessible it will be.

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Feb 01

Planned Parenthood group from western states adds Indiana, Kentucky in ‘strategic alliance’

By Rick Callahan, Associated Press

Planned Parenthood's affiliate overseeing Hawaii and three western states announced Friday that it was adding Indiana and Kentucky, a first-of-its-kind consolidation based not on geography but on reallocating resources to fight new abortion restrictions in the Midwest and South.

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Aug 15

The year after childbirth is the deadliest for addicted women

By Christine Vestal, Stateline

Growing evidence suggests that women should receive continuous medical attention during what is now called the “fourth trimester” — a period lasting at least a year after childbirth.

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Jul 24

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Why do pregnant women get confusing guidance about alcohol?

By Amna Nawaz, Lorna Baldwin

How much alcohol can cause fetal alcohol spectrum disorder, a difficult to diagnose condition, sometimes called an "invisible disability"? Doctors don't know. While official guidelines say no amount of alcohol is safe to drink during pregnancy, women often receive mixed…

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Jul 05

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How giving black women time for self-care benefits the whole community

Black women carry the trauma of systemic racism and serving other people before taking care of themselves, and it's killing them, say GirlTrek founders Morgan Dixon and Vanessa Garrison. Dixon and Garrison give their Brief but Spectacular take on mobilizing…

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Mar 23

Analysis: California’s forced sterilization programs once harmed thousands, especially Latinas

By Nicole L. Novak and Natalie Lira, The Conversation

In the first half of the 20th century, approximately 60,000 people were sterilized under U.S. eugenics programs. California led the nation in this effort at social engineering.

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Jan 05

The fallout of police violence is killing black women like Erica Garner

By Christen A. Smith, The Conversation

An anthropologist, who studies the impact of police violence on black communities, examines the ways that police violence kills black women slowly through trauma, pain and loss.

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Dec 19

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Impact of ‘global gag rule’ goes beyond abortion for these health groups in Kenya

By Fred de Sam Lazaro

The so-called global gag rule, which cuts off some U.S. government aid to health agencies that offer or mention abortion services, has been reinstated by every Republican president going back to Reagan. But the Trump administration has gone much further,…

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Oct 06

Trump weakens Obamacare’s birth control mandate

By Ricardo Alonso-Zaldivar, Associated Press

The Trump administration is allowing more employers to opt out of providing no-cost birth control to women for religious and moral reasons.

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