
Expert: Dying woman should have got Irish abortion
A miscarrying woman who died in an Irish hospital should have had her blood poisoning detected much sooner and been offered an abortion to improve her ...

Irish PM: Abortion activists send letters in blood
Irish Prime Minister Enda Kenny says anti-abortion activists in his predominantly Roman Catholic country are inundating his office with threatening ...

State laws varied on gun, abortion laws
The U.S. Supreme Court says women in America can terminate a pregnancy and that every citizen has an individual right to own a firearm, but those ...
Ill woman denied abortion recovers after C-section
An ill Salvadoran woman who delivered a baby without a brain through a cesarean section after being denied a medical abortion is recovering well and ...
J&J recalls 32M contraceptive packages outside US
Johnson & Johnson is conducting a voluntary recall of millions of oral contraceptive packages in 43 countries outside the U.S., but the health care ...
Ill Salvadoran woman denied abortion has C-section
A seriously ill woman denied a medical abortion has had a successful cesarean section to deliver a baby that doctors have given little chance of ...

Advice for black women on breast cancer gene risk
New research suggests that bad genes may be responsible for more breast cancer cases in black women than has been previously known. About 1 in 5 ...

Gene flaws common in blacks with breast cancer
Gene flaws that raise the risk of breast cancer are surprisingly common in black women with the disease, according to the first comprehensive testing ...

Jolie, Pitt talk mastectomy at 'WWZ' London premiere
Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie stepped out together Sunday at the premiere of zombie thriller "World War Z" — Jolie's first public appearance since ...

Vinegar cancer test saves lives, India study finds
A simple vinegar test slashed cervical cancer death rates by one-third in a remarkable study of 150,000 women in the slums of India, where the disease ...

Mom's obesity surgery may help break cycle in kids
Obese mothers tend to have kids who become obese. Now provocative research suggests weight-loss surgery may help break that unhealthy cycle in an ...

Boston cardinal skips event over Irish PM's role
Cardinal Sean O'Malley skipped Boston College's commencement Monday to protest its decision to honor Irish Prime Minister Enda Kenny, who backs ...

Angelina Jolie's double mastectomy: Q&A
Oscar-winning actress Angelina Jolie disclosed Tuesday that she had a preventive mastectomy after learning she had a gene mutation that significantly ...
Turkish womb transplant patient loses baby
A hospital says a Turkish woman who was the first to get pregnant with a transplanted donor womb has had her pregnancy terminated. Derya Sert was born ...
Cardinal skipping graduation over Irish PM's views
Boston Cardinal Sean O'Malley said Friday that he won't attend Boston College's graduation because the Jesuit school's commencement speaker, Irish ...
Drugmakers, health groups bring poor girls vaccine
Two multinational drugmakers are teaming up with global health groups in an attempt to protect millions of girls in the world's poorest countries from ...

Catholic bishops condemn Irish abortion bill
Ireland's Roman Catholic leaders appealed to the public Friday to lobby their lawmakers to reject a bill that would permit abortions deemed necessary ...

Ireland publishes bill on life-saving abortions
Ireland unveiled a long-awaited bill Wednesday that lays down new rules governing when life-saving abortions can be performed, a point of potentially ...
Turkish woman with womb transplant trying for baby
A hospital says a Turkish woman who became the first person to successfully receive the uterus of a dead donor may now be pregnant. Derya Sert, 22, ...

Widower accepts apology in Irish abortion case
The husband of a woman who died after being denied an abortion in an Irish hospital accepted an apology Thursday from a midwife who, when explaining ...

Rivals prepare for legal battle over abortion bans
Rival legal teams, well-financed and highly motivated, are girding for court battles over the coming months on laws enacted in Arkansas and North ...

Scientists find new gene markers for cancer risk
A huge international effort involving more than 100 institutions and genetic tests on 200,000 people has uncovered dozens of signposts in DNA that can ...

Grieving husband pushes bill for unproven remedies
After the best-selling Irish novelist Josephine Hart died from ovarian cancer in 2011, her husband was so devastated he often went to her grave to ...