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Geographic Technology Helps Put Ethiopia on Map of Global Health Success

David J. Olson | Posted 04.24.2013 | Impact
Read More: Emergency Contraception, HIV/AIDS, Addis Ababa, Family Planning, Contraceptives, Injectables, Ethiopia, HIV Prevention, Global Positioning System, Geographic Information Systems, Condoms, Social Marketing, Oral Contraceptives, Global Motherhood, Impact News
David J. Olson

In just six years, DKT Ethiopia has transformed its system for tracking contraceptive sales from pins and pencils to computers and satellites and, in the process, helped create a family planning and HIV prevention success story in the Horn of Africa.

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Should Women Be Taxed For Taking The Pill?

The Huffington Post | Emily Cohn | Posted 06.04.2012 | Home
Read More: Birth Control Pill, Contraception Tax, Birth Control Effects, Contraceptives, Potomac River Polluted, Birth Control Hormones, Contraception, Birth Control Sewage, Poll, Birth Control, Obama Contraception, Contraceptive Pill Tax, Pollution, Birth Control Tax, Oral Contraceptives, Home News

While President Obama wants to grant women access to free birth control, this guy thinks women ought to pay more for access to contraception -- $1,50...

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Why Aren't Men More Outraged by the Oral Contraceptives Debate?

John Blumenthal | Posted 05.09.2012 | Fifty
Read More: Arsenic, Prophylactics, Chivalry, Rush Limbaugh, Oral Contraception, Roy Blunt, Viagra, Rick Santorum, Sluts, Diaphragms, Groucho Marx, Sandra Fluke, Spermicides, 1958, Oral Contraceptives, Fifty News
John Blumenthal

So here's the question, guys: Why is this considered a "women's issue"?

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Cara Santa Maria

5 Things Rush Limbaugh Should Learn About Birth Control

HuffingtonPost.com | Cara Santa Maria | Posted 05.07.2012 | Science
Read More: Video, The Pill, Rush Limbaugh, Gynecology, Talk Nerdy to Me, Shari Brasner, Sandra Fluke, Science, Contraception, Cara Santa Maria, Birth Control, Health Insurance, Oral Contraceptives, Science News

2012-03-08-Screenshot20120308at8.35.48AM.jpgRush Limbaugh made some comments this past week that raised more than a few eyebrows. In addition to being anti-woman, what he said is fundamentally anti-science.

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Teens Use Birth Control -- But Not to Prevent Pregnancy

Cathy Margolin, L.Ac. Dipl. OM | Posted 02.14.2012 | Healthy Living
Read More: Birth Control, Birth Control Pills, Oral Contraceptives, The Pill, Birth Control Risks, Teens and Birth Control, Birth Control Teens, Healthy Living News
Cathy Margolin, L.Ac. Dipl. OM

Do the 82 percent of teenagers using the pill for non-contraception reasons understand the risks of these drugs? Do they know all the possible ramifications of their choices?

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The Nutritional Cost of Birth Control Pills

Craig K. Comstock | Posted 08.26.2011 | Healthy Living
Read More: Nutrient Depletion, Drug-Induced Nutrient Depletion Handbook, The Pill, Birth Control Pills, Oral Contraceptives, Ross Pelton, Smiciklas-Wright, Healthy Living News
Craig K. Comstock

Scientific researchers have known for years that the birth control pill depletes nutrients, but to what extent have women been told this information and guided to supplements that will supply what's lost?

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More U.S. Teens Using This Contraceptive

Reuters | Posted 05.31.2011 | Home
Read More: Teen Oral Contraceptives, Oral Contraceptives Teens, More Teen Women on the Pill, More Teens on the Pill, Birth Control Teens, Teens Birth Control, Teens on Birth Control, Teen Girls Use the Pill, Oral Contraceptive Teens, Teens Using Birth Control, Oral Contraceptives, Home News

More U.S. teenagers are using birth control pills, according to a new study by Thomson Reuters released on Thursday. Eighteen percent of teenag...

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The Pill Turns 50: Taking Stock

Christiane Northrup, MD | Posted 11.17.2011 | Healthy Living
Read More: Dr. Christiane Northrup, Birth Control, Sexual Dysfunction, The Pill, Women's Health, Health, Oral Contraceptives, Healthy Living News
Christiane Northrup, MD

This year marks the 50th anniversary of the birth control pill, which ushered in the sexual revolution of the 60s and gave women unprecedented freedom to explore their sexuality without worrying about pregnancy.

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New Study Confirms HRT Helps Ward Off Colon Cancer On Yahoo! Health

health.yahoo.com | Posted 11.17.2011 | Healthy Living
Read More: Stroke, Cancer Prevention, Women's Health, Colon Cancer, Health, Hrt, Hormone Replacement Therapy, Breast Cancer, Cancer, Heart Disease, Cancer Risk, Bowel Cancer, Oral Contraceptives, Healthy Living News

Hormone replacement therapy (HRT) cuts a woman's risk of developing colon cancer, new research confirms....

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What Happened to the Father of the Pill? Whitewashed Out of History...

Heidi Kingstone | Posted 05.25.2011 | Media
Read More: Fda, Time, The Pill, Time Magazine, Carl Djerassi, Oral Contraceptives, The Pill at 50, Media News
Heidi Kingstone

For the last 50 years Carl Djerassi has been known as the father of "the pill." So I was surprised to see that nowhere in Time's cover story on the pill was there any mention of Djerassi.

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Rethink Pink NOW! Saner Solutions to Breast Cancer, Part 2

Helen Cordes | Posted 11.17.2011 | Healthy Living
Read More: Endocrine Disruptors, Breast-Cancer-Prevention, Breast Cancer, Hrt, Oral Contraceptives, Healthy Living News
Helen Cordes

Starting this October, let's rethink our pink passion and take some steps that go beyond the conventional "wisdom" on breast cancer detection and prevention.

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