Cancer

Diseases such as diabetes and cancer cause tens of millions of deaths each year, many of which are premature. Once the burden of rich countries, these non-communicable diseases are increasingly affecting individuals in low- and middle-income countries where they impose heavy burdens on already fragile health systems. Among the most deadly—and preventable—of these diseases is cervical cancer.

Yesterday, a new study made headlines claiming that oral contraceptive use is associated with prostate cancer. Scary, right? Wrong... There's no evidence of a link, though that didn't stop media from claiming there is.

As the uncertainty of the very real-life drama about the budget stalemate and threatened shutdown of the federal government drags on, there is one thing you can count on. Every single major media outlet has gotten the story about riders wrong.

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Spending scarce time, money, and energy, Andrea Grimes goes on a hunt to find one of those many "alternatives" to Planned Parenthood anti-choicers claim will provide access to reproductive health care.  Problem is, in Texas they don't exist.

Governor Brian Schweitzer vetoed a bill that would have prohibited coverage of abortion in state insurance exchanges; the wife of Kermit Gosnell is released on house arrest; Justice Sotomayor will visit a birthing center/Head Start provider in DC next week; and could HPV contribute to lung cancer?

Operation Rescue holds breath, stamps feet about Planned Parenthood funding, Arkansas legislature introduces "fetal pain" bill, will GOP choose budget cuts or denial of women's rights, and a Montana judge orders a hysterectomy against a woman's will.

With millions of Americans out of work, House Republicans are focusing in on real priorities: decimating private abortion coverage and crippling public funding for abortion.

An HIV-positive woman in Florida serving a five-year prison sentence for spitting on a police officer is dying from cancer and has one month to live. Her family is pleading for her release so she can die at home.

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New studies show that women who undergo cancer treatments during pregnancy may be more likely to see good outcomes for themselves and the fetus.  But anti-choice activists want to know why women won't "sacrifice themselves" anyway.

More than half of sexually active men in the United States will have some form HPV at some point during their lifetime. Yet many don't know the HPV vaccine was recently approved for men.

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