| LONDON (AP) -- Researchers have encouraging news for women who find themselves in a very frightening situation: having cancer while pregnant. Studies suggest that these women can be treated almost the same as other cancer patients are, with minimal risk to the fetus.
BUDAPEST, Hungary (AP) -- A Hungarian obstetrician known for promoting home births lost an appeal Friday against her two-year prison sentence for malpractice.
(Associated Press) -- The U.S. Food and Drug Administration is gathering facts about a vending machine at a Pennsylvania college that dispenses the "morning-after" pill.
(Associated Press) -- Students at Shippensburg University in central Pennsylvania can get the "morning-after" pill by sliding $25 into a vending machine installed at the request of the student government.
(Chicago Tribune) -- Upon learning they are pregnant, most women dutifully nix the alcohol, sushi and caffeine.
HONG KONG (Deutsche Presse-Agentur) -- Chinese mothers who travel to Hong Kong to give birth to a second child are being fined on their return for breaching Beijing's one-child policy, a radio report said Tuesday.
(Associated Press) -- The Obama administration's decision requiring church-affiliated employers to cover birth control was bound to cause an uproar among Roman Catholics and members of other faiths, no matter their beliefs on contraception.
NEW YORK (AP) -- The Susan G. Komen for the Cure breast-cancer charity on Friday abandoned plans to eliminate grants to Planned Parenthood. The startling decision came after three days of virulent criticism that resounded across the Internet, jeopardizing Komen's iconic image.
NEW YORK (AP) -- Planned Parenthood said Wednesday that it received more than 400,000 dollars from 6,000 donors in the 24 hours after news broke that its affiliates would be losing grants for breast screenings from the Susan G. Komen for the Cure breast-cancer foundation.
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Pfizer Inc. is recalling 1 million packets of birth control pills after uncovering a packaging error that could leave women with an inadequate dose of the hormone-based drugs and raise the risk that they will get pregnant accidentally.
ATLANTA (AP) -- A new government study suggests a lot of teenage girls are clueless about their chances of getting pregnant.
LONDON (AP) -- Abortion rates are higher in countries where the procedure is illegal and nearly half of all abortions worldwide are unsafe, with the vast majority in developing countries, a new study concludes.
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