Less than half of all mothers globally breastfeed their newborns within an hour of birth, despite international recommendations to do so. Officials are looking at how to draw attention to this issu…
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The FDA’s allowance for pharmacies to dispense mifepristone will broaden access to the two-pill mifepristone-misoprostol regimen of medication abortion, which is 95% to 98% effective.
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Click here for more.Although reproductive justice leaders have been sounding the alarm for years about massive federal legislative changes, much of the country was caught by surprise when the Supreme Court overturned the…
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Women in Sub-Saharan Africa who experience recent intimate partner violence are three times more likely to contract HIV, research finds.
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The ratio of students to counselors has reached its lowest point in over 30 years, spurred both by an influx of new counselors and a nationwide decline in student enrollment.
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Americans need better access to contraception. In countries where birth control is cheap or free and more easily available to more people, there are much lower rates of unintended pregnancy,…
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Alyssa Shaw’s job is to guide Seattle-area residents through what can be one of the most wrenching and complicated experiences of their lives: petitioning civil courts to temporarily take away…
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The COVID-19 pandemic—and resulting upheaval in public education—has undermined decades of feminist gains in the United States workforce, research finds. The research, forthcoming in Gender & Society, draws on new data…
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The number of deaths related to alcohol use in the US grew by a staggering 25% between 2019 and 2020, the first year of the COVID-19 pandemic.
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“We found that this particular stressor—restriction to abortion—affects women of a specific age in a specific cause of death, which is suicide.”…
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<p>This evaluation indicates that the Los Angeles County Department of Mental Health–Dodgers partnership to expand the reach of the WhyWeRise program successfully reached county residents and raised awareness of county mental health resources.</p>…
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Justin Bieber, Shania Twain, Amy Schumer, Avril Lavigne, Ben Stiller and Kelly Osbourne are just six of the millions of people who report that they have suffered from Lyme disease,…