"Your health should come first, but when you're a healthy and busy working adult, you tend to forget how quickly the time flies."
This is Beth, a Planned Parenthood patient, talking about how, when she was 32, her doctor found a lump in her right breast. The discovery was made...
(17) Comments | Posted February 29, 2012 | 2:39 PM
It was another victory for women's health. This month and last, the World Health Organization (WHO) convened two meetings of public health experts and citizens from some of the countries of the world most affected by HIV/AIDS. Participants were asked to review a new study suggesting that hormonal contraception increases...
(7) Comments | Posted October 5, 2011 | 6:55 PM
There is one thing I can't stress enough about sex: The need to talk about it. My previous post on Black Voices was about how hard it is for adults to talk about sex -- with each other! So you can imagine how tough it is for us...
(9) Comments | Posted September 15, 2011 | 6:00 PM
How many negative statistics do we have to read before we get the message? When it comes to practicing safer sex, much work still needs to be done. According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), as many as 19 million new sexually transmitted infections occur...
(29) Comments | Posted August 4, 2011 | 9:00 AM
It's a delivery that is long overdue: Federal health officials on Monday defined birth control as preventive health care. That means that, starting next year, private insurers of new plans will have to cover FDA-approved contraceptives without any fees or co-payments (public insurance plans already provide basic birth control coverage...
(2) Comments | Posted May 14, 2012 | 6:00 PM