Center For Reproductive Rights Challenges FDA Over Emergency Contraception Access

The Center for Reproductive Rights has filed a motion for contempt against FDA for failing to respond to a court order instructing it to reconsider permitting over-the-counter sales of emergency contraception to women of all ages, the New Mexico Independent reports. The drug currently is available without a prescription to women ages 17 and older (Doland, New Mexico Independent, 11/16)…

NPR Examines Pew Study On Number Of Women Without Children

NPR’s “Tell Me More” on Tuesday spoke with the co-author of a new Pew Research Center report that found the percentage of women ages 40 and older who do not have children has doubled to nearly 20% since the 1970s. Among black women, the proportion of women without children has increased three times faster than among white women, according to the report…

Merck Submits Final Data For Application To Market HPV Vaccine Gardasil To Older Women

Merck on Wednesday announced that it has provided FDA with completed trial data on its human papillomavirus vaccine, Gardasil, in support of its application to market the vaccine to women ages 27 through 45, Reuters reports. FDA in 2006 approved Gardasil for girls and women ages nine through 26 to protect against certain strains of HPV that can lead to cervical cancer and genital warts…

Parental Notification Requirement Added To Spanish Abortion-Rights Bill

The Spanish government has agreed to alter a proposed law that would have allowed young women ages 16 and 17 to receive an abortion without parental notification, the AP/Washington Post reports. The changes would alter the proposed law to require teenagers to inform at least one parent before undergoing the procedure…

Health Policy Research Roundup

UCLA Center For Health Policy Research: Health Disparities Among California’s Nearly Four Million Low-Income Nonelderly Adult Women – Using data from the 2007 California Health Interview Survey, the authors of this policy brief compare low-income women, ages 18-64, to others…

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