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FDA: Stop the birth control lies!
Yaz is sold as a cure for PMS, but it’s not — and drug regulators aren’t amused.
By Tracy Clark-Flory October 8, 2008
Let’s hear it for Harald zur Hausen!
Virologist who discovered HPV shares Nobel Prize in physiology or medicine.
By October 6, 2008
Is breast cancer lurking in your family?
A new PBS documentary explores the dreaded “BRCA” gene mutation, which is leading more and more women to get preventive double mastectomies.
By Jessica Wakeman October 1, 2008
Paying for sterilization
Louisiana state Rep. John LaBruzzo wants to offer poor women $1,000 to have their tubes tied.
By Kate Harding September 26, 2008
Use a condom, win a TV
A new program rewards Indonesian sex workers for protecting themelves.
By Judy Berman September 24, 2008
Roe plaintiff speaks out for choice
Although “Jane Roe” is now an anti-choice activist, another plaintiff in the case has no regrets.
By Kate Harding September 22, 2008
“WTF” of the day
Salon writers puzzle over a Belgian sex-ed PSA that attempts to answer the age-old question, “Spit or swallow?”
By Judy Berman September 19, 2008
First pet food, now infant formula?
Chinese authorities are scrambling to deal with contaminated milk powder that’s making thousands of babies sick.
By Catherine Price September 18, 2008
Americans and food: Together again?
Mmm … butter.
By Lynn Harris September 17, 2008
Planned Parenthood responds to “perverse” McCain ad
A new clip debunks Republicans’ accusations that Obama supports comprehensive sex ed for kindergarteners.
By Judy Berman September 12, 2008
Are we pathologizing PMS?
A psychologist who served on two DSM committees argues that premenstrual dysphoric disorder is bunk.
By Kate Harding September 8, 2008
A new way to check your boobs
A technique called molecular breast imaging may help spot cancer in women with dense breast tissue.
By Catherine Price September 4, 2008
The joy of abstinence
A humorous blog and a conservative think tank on the benefits of not having sex.
By Judy Berman August 27, 2008
A different kind of double D
Is your breast milk vitamin D deficient?
By Catherine Price August 26, 2008
Big fat contradictions
Weight-loss programming on TV is full of contradictions — and so is the criticism of it.
By Kate Harding August 25, 2008
“What to expect when you’re aborting”
A young woman blogs about terminating her pregnancy.
By Judy Berman August 25, 2008
Slipped through the cracks
The stories we missed this week: More women opting for double mastectomies, working women thwarted by insecurity and the top 10 literary virgins.
By Logan Scherer August 22, 2008
Viagra for women
Two experimental products aim to jump-start women’s desire.
By Judy Berman August 21, 2008
In California, docs can’t say, “Sorry, you’re gay”
In a final decision on a 1999 lawsuit, the state Supreme Court rules that antidiscrimination law trumps “religious freedom.”
By Lynn Harris August 20, 2008
A new use for stem cells: Breast augmentation
Enterprising doctors have figured out a way to use a woman’s own stem cells to make her boobs look bigger.
By Catherine Price August 19, 2008
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