Latest Women's health News

Women’s Court may be renewed on Oʻahu and expanded to other islands

Jan. 30, 2025 12:53 PM EST

When the Oʻahu Women’s Court was established in 2022 to offer an alternative to incarceration, officials had a goal of admitting 20 participants a year. As of this month, 33 women were currently enrolled. The pilot project has been a success, say advocates, who are seeking to make...

Largest health care strike in Oregon history begins as thousands picket Providence hospitals

Jan. 10, 2025 21:34 PM EST

PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — Some 5,000 hospital health care workers walked off the job Friday as they picketed all eight Providence hospitals in Oregon, in what the state health workers union described as the largest health care strike in Oregon history — and the first to involve doctors. ...

In Gaza's crowded tent camps, women wrestle with a life stripped of privacy

Dec. 30, 2024 00:15 AM EST

DEIR AL-BALAH, Gaza City (AP) — For Gaza’s women, the hardships of life in the territory’s sprawling tent camps are compounded by the daily humiliation of never having privacy. Women struggle to dress modestly while crowded into tents with extended family members, including...

FDA proposes new testing rules to ensure cosmetics are asbestos-free

Dec. 26, 2024 19:10 PM EST

WASHINGTON (AP) — Cosmetic companies would have to take extra steps to ensure that any products containing talc are free of asbestos under a federal rule proposed Thursday. The proposal from the Food and Drug Administration and mandated by Congress is intended to reassure consumers...

The fate of the first-ever White House Gender Policy Council is uncertain in Trump's administration

Dec. 18, 2024 13:42 PM EST

WASHINGTON (AP) — During the transition period between President Joe Biden and President-elect Donald Trump, there has been at least some coordination on West Wing affairs. But not when it comes to Biden's Gender Policy Council, which has worked to defend reproductive health care in the face of...

2 teens killed, 4 injured in shooting at makeshift club in Houston

Dec. 16, 2024 05:55 AM EST

HOUSTON (AP) — Two teens were killed and four were injured — including a 13-year-old girl — in a shooting at a makeshift club in Houston, police said Sunday. Officers arriving at the site of the shooting late Saturday night found “a very hectic scene — a large crowd of...

Biden says healthy women help US prosperity as he highlights White House initiative on their health

Dec. 11, 2024 15:33 PM EST

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden said Wednesday that he is “so proud” that a women's health research initiative he launched last year at his wife's urging has already invested nearly $1 billion because a healthy female population improves U.S. prosperity. “That's a...

US health panel adds self-testing option for cervical cancer screening

Dec. 10, 2024 11:42 AM EST

Women should have the option of taking their own test samples for cervical cancer screening, an influential health panel said Tuesday. Draft recommendations from the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force are aimed at getting more people screened and spreading the word that women can...

Michigan Democrats move to protect reproductive health data before GOP takes control of House

Dec. 06, 2024 00:05 AM EST

LANSING, Mich. (AP) — Michigan Democrats are pushing this month to pass legislation they say will improve reproductive health care, in particular the safety of digital health data, ahead of Republicans taking over the state House in 2025. Democratic Gov. Gretchen Whitmer is backing...

US first lady Jill Biden in the capital of the United Arab Emirates on her last solo foreign trip

Dec. 05, 2024 12:18 PM EST

ABU DHABI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Jill Biden used a tour of the United Arab Emirates' capital Thursday to praise efforts to fight cancer and call for more attention on women's health issues as part of her final solo foreign tour as first lady. Biden, 73, arrived in Abu Dhabi...