Women's health

Women's health

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  APNewsBreak: Deal in Mass. suit on pregnancy drug

  Four sisters who claimed their breast cancer was caused by a drug their mother took during pregnancy in the 1950s reached a settlement Wednesday with ... 

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  Retooling Pap test to spot more kinds of cancer

  For years, doctors have lamented that there's no Pap test for deadly ovarian cancer. Wednesday, scientists reported encouraging signs that one day, ... 

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  Mass. women at trial: Pregnancy drug caused cancer

  Eli Lilly and Co. failed to test a drug's effect on fetuses before promoting it as a way to prevent miscarriages, a lawyer charged Tuesday in opening ... 

• Trial set to begin in Boston over pregnancy drug

  At first, the Melnick sisters thought it was just a cruel coincidence that two of them were diagnosed with breast cancer. But when two more sisters ... 

• CDC: Women getting unneeded Paps post-hysterectomy

  Many women don't need to be screened for cervical cancer after a hysterectomy, but a new study says most get the test anyway. A government survey ... 

• Texas judge OKs ban on Planned Parenthood funding

  Texas can cut off funding to Planned Parenthood's family planning programs for poor women, a state judge ruled Monday, requiring thousands to find new ... 

• Atty: Hobby Lobby won't offer morning-after pill

  An attorney for Hobby Lobby Stores said Thursday that the arts and crafts chain plans to defy a federal mandate requiring it to offer employees health ... 

• Justice refuses to block morning-after pill rule

  Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor on Wednesday denied a request to block part of the federal health care law that requires employee health-care ...