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Reproductive Health Urged to be at Heart of Humanitarian Crisis Response

By Juhie Bhatia ● Health & Science ● June 3, 2016

Politicians and activists at the recent World Humanitarian Summit in Istanbul highlighted the dire consequences of overlooking reproductive and sexual health care in crises. A series of new commitments and projects were announced to address this growing need.

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In India, Sex Education Struggles with Taboo Status

By Gagandeep Kaur ● Arts & Culture ● June 1, 2016

Sex is a taboo topic in India, but schools are nonetheless mandated to teach it. Parents with an eye on what their children might be doing on the Internet are also anxious to find ways of discussing the issue.

Call in the Doula: When Your Pregnant Students Need More

By Anna Limontas-Salisbury ● Health & Science ● May 31, 2016

The Brooklyn Library’s young adult literacy program includes workshops on stop-and-frisk policing, urban farming and HIV/AIDS. But we needed to offer more to young women with unexpected pregnancies and lots of concerns.

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Being Thin Isn’t All it’s Cracked Up to Be, Teen Says

By Emily Leon ● Health & Science ● May 18, 2016

Everywhere Emily Leon looks she sees people trying to lose weight. But as a teen with Graves’ disease, dieting is the furthest thing from her mind. This piece is part of Teen Voices’ Girl Fuse series, an initiative by and about teen girls with disabilities.

This Heart Doctor Wants to Clear Up Confusion About HRT

By Mallory Locklear ● Health & Science ● April 26, 2016

Dr. Howard Hodis just finished talking about this at a major annual conference on women’s health. He says HRT has definite cardiac benefits as long as it starts soon after menopause, before heart health begins to decline with age.

Congressional Briefing Puts U.S. Maternity on Exam Table

By Elizabeth Dawes Gay ● Health & Science ● April 15, 2016

“There’s been a huge collapse of the health system in rural areas,” one doctor said. “I still have patients that don’t have a car or live so far out that they don’t have access to a bus system.”

Why are researchers missing signs of autism in girls?

By Dana Roberson, Todd Zwillich & Por Alison Bowen ● Culture ● March 27, 2016

One in every 68 children born in the United States is diagnosed with autism spectrum disorder. Boys are supposedly four times more likely to have the condition, but clinicians often miss or overlook symptoms in girls, who are frequently on the less disabling end of the spectrum.

Social Anxiety Isn’t Helping Women Close the Pay Gap

By Mallory Locklear & Por Alison Bowen ● Health & Science ● March 24, 2016

The disorder is more common in women and can take a toll on career prospects since, as one researcher here says, “everybody has to interact socially.” But celebrities are starting to raise awareness and the disorder is rather treatable for those who seek help.

Cancel the Party: Here’s a Killjoy Memo for U.S. Women

By Caryl Rivers & Rosalind C. Barnett ● Commentary ● March 8, 2016

Instead of celebrating progress, we have to ask why we fare so poorly compared to many other countries. From being underpaid to losing abortion access, it’s a depressing list. But let’s not look away.

In France, FGM is Reason to Fear Homelands, Seek Asylum

By Léa Bouchoucha ● Crime & Law ● March 7, 2016

The country is a magnet for female immigrants from Eritrea, Nigeria, Somalia, Guinea and Ethiopia. Thousands of women from these countries have fled FGM and help define what it means to be a refugee in Europe.