Study Suggests Drop In Hormone Therapy Contributed To Breast Cancer Decline, Newsweek Opinion Piece Says

While breast cancer continues to be the second most common cancer among women in the U.S., “rates have been declining by about 2% a year since 1999, after having increased for the previous 20 years,” Newsweek contributing editor Barbara Kantrowitz and Washington correspondent Pat Wingert write in a opinion piece…

Newsweek Examines Role Of New Female Condom In Efforts To Combat Spread Of HIV In D.C.

Women’s health experts are watching closely to see whether a recent grant to provide no-cost female condoms in Washington, D.C., will “really make a difference” in the area’s HIV/AIDS rate among women, Newsweek’s Kate Dailey writes. The goal of the program is to empower women to take control of their own health and safety…

Study Examines Reproductive Coercion Of Female Teens By Partners

About one in five female patients at family planning centers report experiencing reproductive coercion — pressure by a male partner through verbal threats, physical violence or birth control tampering to become pregnant, according to a study published in the journal Contraception, Newsweek reports…

Study Finds Unnecessary Mammograms Performed On Elderly Women With Dementia

A new study in the American Journal of Public Health found that 18% of elderly women with severe dementia undergo screening mammograms, despite guidelines from the American Cancer Society and other groups that recommended against such screening for women with a life expectancy of less than five years, Newsweek reports. Elderly women with dementia have an average life expectancy of 3…

Newsweek Examines Fetal Rights Debate In Courts, Legislatures

Courts across the country are deliberating cases challenging state laws affording rights to fetuses and grappling with questions about fetal rights and the rights of pregnant woman, Newsweek reports…

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