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According to a study performed by Yale University and UC Davis, among women who decided to have hysteroscopic sterilization, it was found they were ten times more likely to be...
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According to researchers at Princeton’s Woodrow Wilson School, tubal ligation policies under Medicaid create many issues for women with low income. Tubal ligation or having yo...
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In a research study conducted by the Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, Mo., it was found that providing free birth control to females has substantially redu...
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The world of female reproductive health may never be the same, thanks to a new biomedical engineer and his intravaginal ring invention. The device delivers an antiretroviral m...
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If you were a man, would you be willing to pop a pill every morning to control your sperm count? Or do you feel birth control is an entirely female responsibility? Popping a b...
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NARAL Pro-Choice America has designed a Facebook app that allows women to take control over their reproductive health. As a part of the healthcare overhaul and the implementat...
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With the passing of the Affordable Care Act or “Obamacare”, women in the United States now have access to affordable preventative healthcare. For many women in America this is...
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Health advocates for women tend to be big proponents of the intrauterine device, also known as an IUD. There are many reasons why advocates favor IUDs and these include conven...
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A new form of male contraception is in the works, and has begun clinical trials in India. The new method is administered as an injection and is being praised as a long term, m...
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The Affordable Care Act—colloquially known as Obamacare—featured at least one highly controversial aspect (OK, maybe more than one). The Act mandated that private health insur...

 
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