Public Policy

Many women with breast implants experience a range of complications, from ruptured implants to chronic illness.

A journalist who became an activist after covering "women's lib," Barbara Seaman played an huge role in the emerging women’s health movement.

Most puberty education classes avoid addressing gender, leaving many students wondering about their bodies, identities, and health.

In my last year of medical school, I began looking into residency programs in obstetrics and gynecology. My first interview of the season was at a Catholic-affiliated hospital.

As abortion becomes harder to access, more and more women are taking matters into their own hands with self-managed abortion—buying abortion pills on the internet and using them without medical supervision.

The Big Horn County Attorney General's office is calling on pregnant women to “self-report” themselves to the sheriff’s office if they use alcohol or non-prescribed drugs.

A proposed draft of a new HSS strategic plan says life begins at conception and pits the rights of women against the rights of the "unborn."

While the Brazilian government has declared that Zika is no longer a national public health emergency, the crisis persists.

An increasing number of U.S. women with early-stage breast cancer are choosing to undergo double mastectomy, despite evidence that lumpectomy is safer.

The Trump Administration may remove birth control from the list of covered preventive health care services without a copay. And that's not all.

There's a big need for long-acting, reversible birth control that can be used by men. Vasalgel, a method currently in testing, may just fit the bill.

HHS, under the direction of vehemently anti-LGBT chair Tom Price, recently decided that it will stop collecting data on LGBT older adults.

U.S. patients already have the right to try experimental drugs that have at least some evidence of safety & effectiveness. So why lower the standards?

International commercial surrogacy is a complex arrangement that can pose benefits and harms to intended parents, gestational mothers, and the children.

Does using Depo-Provera increase a woman’s risk of acquiring HIV or not? WHO says probably not, but maybe for high risk women.

The research is clear: criminalizing pregnant women who use or abuse drugs doesn’t help them or their babies. Treatment and harm reduction strategies do.

The Republican plan to eliminate or change substantial portions of the Affordable Care Act is likely to disproportionately hurt women.

Women want and need protection methods that will both provide contraception and prevent the transmission of HIV and other sexually transmitted infections.

The ACA mandate to cover women's reproductive health services is especially critical for women of color, low-income women, and immigrant women.

It’s time for California to provide reparations to the approximately 800 survivors of compulsory sterilization who are likely still alive in the state.