Archives for March 2013

By Bryce Covert (Forbes) If someone asked you what the most controversial part of the Affordable Care Act is, what would you say? So-called “death panels”? The Medicaid expansion? Breast pumps? If you guessed the requirement for insurance companies to cover contraception without co-payment, you’d win the jackpot. The Sunlight Foundation just analyzed public comments on federal regulations – the public’s most direct way to share input on a given … [Read more...]

By Brianna Bailey | Published: March 23, 2013 (The Oklahoman)   The American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists and several other medical groups that support the use of emergency contraceptives have challenged Oklahoma City-based Hobby Lobby Store's Inc.'s claim that the drugs are a form of abortion. The groups moved Thursday to file a friend of the court brief in Hobby Lobby's court battle over a portion of the Affordable Care Act that … [Read more...]

Alexandra Sifferlin March 20, 2013 (TIME Magazine) A commonly used herbal remedy that is banned in the U.S. and many European countries may still be harming users in Asia. Since researchers connected an epidemic of kidney disease among Belgium women in the early 1990s to herbal medicines from a weight loss clinic, scientists have monitored the remedy for other potential health risks. During the initial outbreak, scientists traced the kidney … [Read more...]

LAURIE GOODSTEIN and MEGAN THEE-BRENAN NY Times March 5, 2013 Roman Catholics in the United States say that their church and bishops are out of touch, and that the next pope should lead the church in a more modern direction on issues like birth control and ordaining women and married men as priests, according to the latest New York Times/CBS News poll. even out of 10 say Pope Benedict XVI and the Vaticanhave done a poor job of handling sexual … [Read more...]