As we commemorate the 43rd anniversary of the legalization of abortion, we must recognize that the right to choose doesn’t just impact white women.

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Many herbs can be used to stimulate and cleanse your uterus, improve its tone and ease menstrual or menopausal symptoms. Ginger Ginger reduces inflammation while…

  Dr. Jessica Shepherd is a gynecologist and the founder of Her Viewpoint, an online women’s health forum. She is also seen regularly as an expert on Dr. Oz and CBS News. She contributes to several leading publications including Women’s Day, Women’s Health, Essence and Just Parenting and for several blogs including MadameNoire, Cafe Mom, […]

Dr. Afriye Amerson has been in private practice for fourteen years. In 2001, after completing her residency, she joined a group practice which had been in existence for over fifty years in Bergen County, New Jersey. She became a partner in the practice and built an ever-growing patient base for the next nine years. Dr. […]

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WASHINGTON (AP) — Republicans will likely lose Monday’s Senate showdown over halting federal aid to Planned Parenthood. Yet the political offensive by abortion foes has just started, prompted by a batch of unsettling videos that has focused attention on the group’s little-noticed practice of providing fetal tissue to researchers. Conservatives have long targeted Planned Parenthood, […]

Phyllis J. Gee M.D.  earned her B.S. in nutrition from Cornell University. She then received her M.D. from Wayne State University School of Medicine and did her residency training in obstetrics and gynecology at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine in Bronx, New York. Dr. Gee began her career serving in the National Health Service […]

Women are generally considered to be the healthiest gender. Again, in general. They tend to eat better, go to the doctor when there’s something wrong,…

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The female orgasm is as elusive as the coveted Holy Grail. One starts off in sexual exploits with an optimistic mind and an eager heart…

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Dr. Jessica Shepherd is part of a growing wave of gynecologists who also treat men. Just last year, the American Board of Obstetrics and Gynecology issued a statement that gynecologists were permitted to diagnose and treat men for sexually transmitted diseases and for anal cancer, reversing an earlier mandate that said no. While board certification […]

The latest glimmer of hope in the ongoing race to cure AIDS comes from an experimental new gel. Researchers announced this week that a vaginal…

Cheaper versions of the most popular form of emergency contraceptive pills have been made more accessible, thanks to the government. The Food and Drug administration…

Widely considered one of the best ways to reduce breast cancer risk, annual mammograms have been called into question by one of the most extensive…