Topic: United States
ADELPHI, Maryland (Reuters) - U.S. drug advisers recommended that the label for Johnson and Johnson's Ortho Evra birth control patch be simplified to better explain the risk of blood clots.In a 20 to 3 vote with one abstention, advisers to the Food ...
LONDON (Reuters) - Nuns should be offered the contraceptive pill, on health grounds, since it would cut their risk of getting cancer, two Australian doctors said on Thursday.The vow of chastity taken by the world's 95,000 Catholic nuns carries with it an ...
Democratic US lawmakers worry President Barack Obama may bow to Catholic groups fighting new rules to expand access to birth control for millions of women, congressional aides confirmed Wednesday.US media have reported that the lawmakers were pressing Obama to hold the line ...
(Reuters) - Most U.S. doctors believe pregnancy starts when the sperm fertilizes the egg, a survey shows, contradicting the position of a key medical group with a view that could potentially affect U.S. policy and laws regarding contraception and research.The American College ...
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Bayer AG won the dismissal on Wednesday of U.S. antitrust claims by Sandoz Inc over Bayer's popular Yaz and Yasmin birth control pills, the final claims in the three-year-old Manhattan case.U.S. District Judge Paul Gardephe said Sandoz failed ...
LITTLETON, New Hampshire (Reuters) - The federal government has committed to taking over family planning services for poor women in much of New Hampshire, in a move that may allow Planned Parenthood to resume providing a full range of care including birth ...
DAKAR (Reuters) - The Horn of Africa food crisis shows the need to provide the world's poor with better access to family planning as part of efforts to prevent future tragedies, the head of the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) said.The United ...
Birth control pills, breast-feeding equipment and HIV testing will be covered under US health plans at no cost to women beginning next year, but a religious exemption has some advocates fuming.The US government on Monday announced the sweeping changes that should save ...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. health department on Monday issued a plan to provide women with free preventive health services, including birth control, under the nation's healthcare overhaul, but gave religious institutions the flexibility to opt out.The guidelines, which the Health and ...
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Giving women free access to long-term birth control after they've had an abortion may help them avoid a second one, New Zealand researchers suggest.Of 510 women who'd been offered contraceptives free of charge at an abortion clinic, ...
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