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Why Insurance Doesn’t Work Like a Salad Bar

By: Caila Brander , , , ,

One of the most controversial debates stemming from Republican efforts to repeal the Affordable Care Act (ACA) has been over maternity coverage and who should pay for it. Under the ACA, coverage for maternity and newborn care—like mental health care, prescription drugs, and more—is part of the essential health benefits package that insurance companies must include in plans for individuals and small employers.

Our Bodies, Our Lives, Our Right to Decide? How Women’s Health Advocates Might Shape End-of-Life Policies

By: Ninia Baehr , ,

Advances in health care have made it possible to increase the quantity, if not always the quality, of many people’s lives. There is a growing right-to-die movement in the United States. I have been working on exploring whether, and how, veterans of the women’s health movement might engage with and shape the right-to-die movement.

Rx for Change: Jane’s History Resonates

By: Laura Kaplan , , , ,

Over 40 years after Jane folded when abortion was legalized, its echoes continue to reverberate. But the right to an abortion has never stopped being under attack.

Abortion Without Provider Involvement: Exercising Autonomy Beyond Partisan Politics

By: NWHN Staff , , , , , ,

The NWHN defends women’s sexual and reproductive health and autonomy against anti-choice threats that seek to undermine access to contraception and abortion care.

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“Light” Cigarettes Carry Heavy Risk

By: Adriane Fugh-Berman, MD ,, , Deep Dive Articles

Smokers consider so-called light cigarettes to be safer than regular cigarettes. But choosing “lights” isn’t a healthier choice at all.

What Can the Women’s Health Initiative Tell Us About How to Age Healthfully? (Part II)

By: NWHN Staff ,, , , Deep Dive Articles

Low Fat Diet, Hormone Therapy & Calcium: Which One Works, and for What?

Getting Burned: Radiation Exposure from CT Scans

By: Adriane Fugh-Berman, MD ,, , Deep Dive Articles

Do you know that radiation exposure from one “CAT” scan can be equivalent to the dose received by some survivors of the Nagasaki atomic bombing? No? Chances are, neither does your doctor.

What Can the Women’s Health Initiative Tell Us About How to Age Healthfully? (Part I)

By: NWHN Staff ,, , , , Deep Dive Articles

Low Fat Diet vs. Breast Cancer: What You Need to Know

Rx for Change: Waiting Room Activism

By: Adriane Fugh-Berman, MD ,, , , Deep Dive Articles

“Even the scale I was weighed on had the name of a drug on it – a weight loss drug,” said my friend, after visiting her doctor. If it’s any consolation, the ad wasn’t directed at her.

Harmless Hormones? Bah, Humbug!

By: Adriane Fugh-Berman, MD ,, , , , Deep Dive Articles

Do you need your hormones 'balanced?' Some alternative doctors are promoting hormone cocktails to cure what ails you, and if you think nothing ails you, well, maybe that's just your haywire hormones talking.

Wild Yam Cream, Diosgenin, and Natural Progesterone: What Can They Really Do for You?

By: Adriane Fugh-Berman, MD ,, , , , , Deep Dive Articles

Amidst the large and sometimes confusing variety of hormone replacement therapy options, “natural" hormones have been growing in both visibility and popularity. Creams containing wild yam extracts or natural progesterone, or oral natural progesterone preparations are emerging as the HRT...

Dr. Helen Rodriguez-Trias: A Warrior in the Struggle for Reproductive Rights

By: Kathryn Krase , Deep Dive Articles

An interview with long-time NWHN board member Dr. Helen Rodriguez-Trias, M.D. on her work fighting against sterilization abuse.

Sterilization Abuse: The Policies Behind the Practice

By: Kathryn Krase , Deep Dive Articles

Instead of providing women with access to alternative forms of safe, legal, and reversible contraception, U.S. policy promoted the use of permanent sterilization. By 1968, women of childbearing age in Puerto Rico were more than ten times more likely to...