THURSDAY, March 7, 2024 (HealthDay News) — Abortion rights will play a pivotal role in determining how people will vote in the 2024 election, a new KFF poll has found. About one in eight voters (12%) now say abortion is the most important issue for their vote in the upcomingContinue Reading
FRIDAY, Feb. 16, 2024 (HealthDay News) — Medication abortion can be delivered safely and effectively using telemedicine, a large, new study concludes. Women who received abortion pills through the mail following a video visit with a doctor fared just as well as women who visited a clinic, researchers report Feb.Continue Reading
WEDNESDAY, Feb. 14, 2024 (HealthDay News) — Everyone’s heard of fighting fire with fire. Now that tactic is coming to breast cancer treatment. Researchers think they’ve figured out a better way to fight breast cancer fueled by the female hormone estrogen – by employing mechanisms used by the male hormoneContinue Reading
THURSDAY, Feb. 8, 2024 (HealthDay News) — Two studies that warned of the harms of the abortion pill have been retracted by the journals’ publisher over flaws in the data and conflicts of interest among the researchers. Complicating matters even further, the papers were cited in a Texas Court rulingContinue Reading
MONDAY, Jan. 22, 2024 (HealthDay News) — On what would have been the 51st anniversary of the landmark Roe v. Wade ruling, the Biden Administration on Monday announced new measures it will take to further protect a woman’s access to abortion. “Fifty-one years ago today, the Supreme Court recognized aContinue Reading
WEDNESDAY, Nov. 6, 2023 (HealthDay News) — States that ban abortion could be headed to a brain drain when it comes to up-and-coming medical professionals. Three out of four future U.S. doctors say state access to abortion is a key factor in choosing where they’ll apply for their residency training,Continue Reading
WEDNESDAY, Nov. 22, 2023 (HealthDay News) — New data shows that births rose in the first half of 2023 in states where abortion bans came into effect following the fall of Roe v. Wade in 2022. States with bans had an average 2.3% rise in the fertility rate compared toContinue Reading
TUESDAY, Nov. 7, 2023 (HealthDay News) — When states have restrictive abortion laws in place, more children end up in foster care, new research finds. This happened even before the U.S. Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade in June 2022, the investigators noted. The study, published Nov. 7 in theContinue Reading
THURSDAY, Oct. 26, 2023 (HealthDay News) — Abortion numbers increased — not decreased — slightly in the year after the U.S. Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade, the 1973 ruling that legalized the procedure. Some states immediately banned access and numbers of abortions fell to nearly zero in those withContinue Reading
WEDNESDAY, Aug. 2, 2023 (HealthDay News) — The President’s Emergency Program for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR), a program that’s long successfully provided relief to people with AIDS around the world, will now be housed within the U.S. State Department. The move comes after years of pressure by anti-abortion groups and someContinue Reading