This year marks the 52nd anniversary of the Equal Credit Opportunity Act of 1974, which protected women's right to access to credit. Before the law, women needed their husbands, fathers or brothers ...

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From child benefit to childcare support, here are the payments, grants and discounts parents may be able to claim ...

Protein S deficiency represents a rare but significant hereditary thrombophilia that poses substantial risks during pregnancy ...

My kids don't qualify for the $1,000 seed money and the tax benefits aren't that great. Here's why I'm sticking with UGMA ...

In a bid to become the nation’s top doctor, a prominent voice in the “Make America Healthy Again” movement faced sharp questions from senators on Wednesday about vaccines, pesticides and birth ...

The review confirms the universal hepatitis B birth dose has reduced pediatric incidence by 99% since its 1991 implementation. A comprehensive review published in Pediatrics found no evidence to ...

In 1987, Zurich was a hotbed of radical feminism. For three Swiss francs (close to $6 today), left-wing bookstores sold a copy of a pamphlet called “Antisexistische Schrittversuche fuer die Aufloesung ...

Only rifamycins can interfere with how well birth control works. Use backup birth control for at least one month after taking rifamycins. Non-rifamycin antibiotics do not lower the effectiveness of ...

As misinformation about women’s health spreads faster than ever, doctors say new research on the risks of hormonal birth control underscores the challenge of communicating nuance in the social media ...

Social media has long been rife with misinformation about birth control, much of it slamming hormonal contraceptives for health harms (like infertility or even abortion) that it does not cause, or ...

Sign up for the Slatest to get the most insightful analysis, criticism, and advice out there, delivered to your inbox daily. Anti-contraception activists learned from ...