Could the decades-long global impasse over abortion worldwide be overcome — by little white pills costing less than $1 each? That seems possible, for these pills are beginning to revolutionize abortion around the world, especially in poor countries. One result may be tens of thousands of women’s lives saved each year. Read more...

By Adriane Fugh-Berman, M.D.
The exodus from menopausal hormone therapy after the Women’s Health Initiative (WHI) proved that the risks of this therapy outweighed its benefits has resulted in a stunning drop in breast cancer rates. A new study shows that, in 2003, the year after the estrogen-progestin arm of the WHI was stopped, breast cancer rates plummeted by seven percent. Read more...

By the National Women's Health Network
On August 13th, the FDA announced its approval of ella (ulipristal acetate), giving women another effective method of preventing unintended pregnancy. Ella allows a woman to back up her birth control not just the morning after unprotected sex or contraceptive failure but up to five days after unprotected or under-protected sex. Read more...

Women who use EvaMist to treat their hot flashes need to take precautions to ensure that children and pets don't come into contact with skin sprayed with the estrogen mist.

An advisory committee recommended on Tuesday that the Food and Drug Administration revoke approval of the drug Avastin as a treatment for breast cancer, saying the drug was not helping patients.

By Amie Newman
Good news from the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists (ACOG), on VBACs (Vaginal Birth After Cesarean). New guidelines were released by the organization marking a significant change in their recommendations regarding VBACs.

Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, June 8, 2007 – At the 2007 meetings of the Society for Menstrual Cycle Research, members discussed current consumer and medical interest in extended hormonal contraceptives to reduce or eliminate menstruation (cycle-stopping contraception).

By Lois Uttley. Yesterday, the Obama administration shocked women’s health organizations by announcing it had decided to sharply restrict abortion coverage in the new federally-subsidized “high-risk pool” insurance plans that will be offered to people with pre-existing conditions, such as breast cancer and diabetes. The coverage will only be allowed in cases of rape, incest or danger to the woman’s life, according to a press statement from the Department of Health and Human Services(HHS)

National Advocates for Pregnant Women (NAPW) works on behalf of all pregnant women including pregnant women who have been arrested and charged with child abuse or some other crime because they continued a pregnancy to term in spite of a drug problem.

Lana Kahn, 89, passed away June 13, 2010 at home with family, friends and her beloved dogs Sassy and Molly.

The New "Morning After Pill" approved by The Reproductive Health Drugs Advisory Committee of the Food and Drug Administration (FDA)

By Faiz Shakir, Amanda Terkel, Matt Corley, Benjamin Armbruster, Zaid Jilani, and Alex Seitz-Wald.

By Lori Freedman, Uta Landy, Philip Darney and Jody Steinauer.

When the US Preventive Services Task Force recommended, last fall, that routine mammography for women start at age 50 -- instead of the previous recommended age of 40. Women felt abandoned by the medical establishment.

“By overcoming barriers between us and hearing each other's stories, we may come to see what we have in common…”

Women's health activists challenged the pill and its dangers to women after it became available 50 years ago. 40 years ago, Barbara Seaman was a voice for women about the high dose pills that caused strokes, heart attacks, blood clots, and depression.

Author Betsy Hartmann doesn't buy into the standard notion of overpopulation and that it causes global warming. In this article she states:

By Laura Eldridge, Good history of the Pill and how it has helped - and hurt - women.

The National Women's Health Network (NWHN) published an e-alert on Sunday, May 10. "Unproven hormone use - are we repeating history?", about a NY Times story written by Cynthia Gorey. The NWHN called Gorey's article "a compelling personal story...about her experience with debilitating depression during perimenopause and the relief she found when she started taking estrogen."

Insightful article on the current politics of abortion and the myth of making abortion rare. By Aimée Thorne-Thomsen.

SisterSong, a Women of Color Reproductive Justice Collective, is headquartered in Atlanta.

Women in the women's movement and people of the civil rights movement mourn the passing of a great leader, Dorothy I. Height. She was a community activist and stood by Dr. Martin Luther King, Sr. during his historic "I have a dream" speech, and was present when President Lyndon Johnson signed the civil rights act of 1964 into law.

Access to abortion services is still under threat while Congress continues to debate how the logistics of the reform will take place, and the effects of banning coverage for abortion under the Stupak Amendment.

The Governor of Nebraska signed an anti-abortion law that will take effect in October. The law makes it illegal to perform abortions after 20 weeks gestation, or after "viability" which is generally thought to be 22 weeks.

Two television commercials for Bayer AG's birth control pill Yaz (which is a combination of progestin and estrogen-like drugs) give a misleading impression of its benefits, U.S. health regulators warned the company in a letter released on Tuesday.

Rebecca Chalker's article, "The 'Perfect' Porn Vulva: More Women Demanding Cosmetic Genital Surgery" was recently published in August 2009.

On November 16, the US Preventive Services Task Force announced their recommendation that women under 50 not get routine screening mammograms. They also recommend women over 50 have mammograms only once every two years instead of every year.

On Friday, November 20, 2009, the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists
announced that women should have their first cancer screening at age 21 and can be
rescreened less frequently than previously recommended. Read more...

Alert: Women have reported that taking Mucinex - an over-the-counter medication for reducing mucus for colds - can effect cervical mucus. For women who are using Fertility Awareness as a method of birth control or to become pregnant, taking Mucinex can interfere with detection of fertile mucus. Since mucinex makes Fertility Awareness less effective, women might want to use a backup method of birth control or not take Mucinex.

On July 17, 2005, the Associated Press (AP) published an article on deaths and serious health risks of strokes that may be related to the birth control patch. The birth control patch is a square patch that is placed on the skin. It contains hormone-like drugs, similar to those found in the birth control pill, which prevent ovulation.