There is "crystal clear" evidence that family planning "is one of the best -- and perhaps the very best -- strategy for women in the United States and across the world to improve their health and well-being, as well as that of their offspring," write Eva Moore, a fellow in adolescent medicine at Johns Hopkins Medical School's
One of the "most lethal forms of sex discrimination" is the "systematic inattention to reproductive health care, from family planning to childbirth" in developing countries, New York Times columnist Nicholas Kristof writes.
President Obama and first lady Michelle Obama's visit to Africa this weekend "will send a powerful message to the world about their commitment to ensuring Africa's continued progress," Rep. Gwen Moore (D-Wis.) writes in an opinion piece in The Hill.
Federally mandated health insurance coverage of in vitro fertilization for women of childbearing age "could lower the extraordinary health care costs associated with the birth of triplets or more" and "even the reproductive odds, giving the middle-class and lower-income Americans access to treatment that is currently reserved for the well-off or the unusually well insured," according to a
The following summarizes selected women's health-related blog entries.~ "Source: White House Leaning Toward Pregnant Women Support Act," Dan Gilgoff, U.S. News & World Report's "God and Country": Congressional sponsors of the
"Human rights organizations around the world are starting to demand that governments recognize preventable maternal death as a violation of women's rights," Mary Robinson and Alicia Yamin, both advisory council members of the International Initiative on Maternal Mortality and Human Rights, write in a Boston Globe opinion piece.
Got a culinary dilemma? Ask Matthew for helpThe baker's dilemmaBicarbonate of soda, baking soda, baking powder, sodium bicarb... are they interchangeable, or do I have to keep them all in store?I've always wondered that myself, with the result that my cupboards are full of half-used containers. It turns out that bicarbonate of soda, sodium bicarbonate and baking soda are one and the same thing -
The "intense focus" on teenage pregnancy in the U.S. "has obscured a more fundamental problem in childbearing trends," W. Bradford Wilcox, a senior fellow at the Institute for American Values and a professor of sociology at the University of Virginia, writes in a
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