This is National Women’s Health Week, an annual, week-long observance that reminds women to make their personal health a priority. But until this year, millions of women have found it difficult to follow through on that advice, because a broken health insurance system limited their access to medical care…
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During the release of its five-year plan to help drive down high maternal death and fertility rates in low-income countries, the World Bank on Tuesday said “that family planning and other reproductive health services have fallen off the radar of many governments, donors and aid agencies,” Reuters reports. Under its Reproductive [...]
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As an adviser in the Clinton White House, Solicitor General Elena Kagan — President Obama’s Supreme Court nominee — co-authored a May 1997 memo recommending that President Clinton support a compromise proposal by then-Sen. Tom Daschle (D-S.D…
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On Monday, Michigan Democrat Connie Saltonstall announced the end of her primary campaign for Rep. Bart Stupak’s (D-Mich.) seat, saying that the Democratic Party “pre-emptively anointed” state Rep. Gary McDowell, an abortion-rights opponent, as Stupak’s successor, Politico reports…
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The following summarizes selected women’s health-related blog entries. ~ “Just a Nick: Pediatricians Endorse Minor Female Genital Cutting,” Alex DiBranco, Change…
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K-V Pharmaceutical Company ( KVa; KVb) (the “Company”) announced it has been informed by Hologic, Inc…
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In the “latest development in a long-running debate” on whether or how much egg donors should be paid, a recent study found advertised compensation for human egg donations often exceeds industry guidelines, the New York Times reports. The study — published in the Hastings Center Report, a bioethics journal — examined more than 100 egg [...]
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Ejaculation is where semen is squirted out of the penis during sexual climax. Ejaculation problems are quite common, many men occasionally ejaculate sooner during sexual intercourse than they or their partner would like. It is not a cause for concern when it happens infrequently…
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Whistle-blowers in the healthcare industry endure substantial hardship and often pay a high personal price for cooperating with Justice Department investigations, according to a report based on detailed interviews with more than two dozen informants.
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Diagnostic practices differ substantially across regions of the U.S., according to a study of Medicare beneficiaries.
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