<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><rss version="2.0"><channel><title>Birth Control: News &amp; Videos about Birth Control - CNN.com</title><link>http://topics.cnn.com/topics/feeds/rss/Birth_Control</link><description>Find stories, videos, and photos about Birth Control from CNN.com.</description><language>en-us</language><copyright>Cable News Network LP, LLLP.</copyright><pubDate>Thu, 26 Nov 2009 06:45:58 GMT</pubDate><ttl>5</ttl><image><title>Birth Control: News &amp; Videos about Birth Control - CNN.com</title><url>http://i.cdn.turner.com//cnn/2009/WORLD/asiapcf/08/13/sex.or.tv/tztop.tv.sofa.jpg</url><link>http://topics.cnn.com/topics/feeds/rss/Birth_Control</link><width>144</width><height>33</height><description>Find stories, videos, and photos about Birth Control from CNN.com.</description></image><item><title>Less sex, more TV idea aired in India</title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/asiapcf/08/13/sex.or.tv/index.html#cnnSTCText</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/asiapcf/08/13/sex.or.tv/index.html#cnnSTCText</guid><description>On World Population Day this year India's new health and welfare minister came out with an idea on how to tackle the population issue: Bring electricity to every Indian village so that people would watch television until late at night and therefore be too tired to make babies.</description><pubDate>Thu, 13 Aug 2009 20:20:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>China has more than 13 million abortions a year</title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/asiapcf/07/30/china.abortions.millions/index.html#cnnSTCText</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/asiapcf/07/30/china.abortions.millions/index.html#cnnSTCText</guid><description>The number of abortions performed in China each year tops 13 million, with inadequate knowledge of contraception playing a major role in the annual tally, state-run media reported.</description><pubDate>Thu, 30 Jul 2009 13:39:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Women over 30 have newer birth control options</title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2009/HEALTH/07/22/birth.control.older.women/index.html#cnnSTCText</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2009/HEALTH/07/22/birth.control.older.women/index.html#cnnSTCText</guid><description>Fallen out of love with your birth control? Maybe you're put off by the side effects --  cramps from hell, unpredictable bleeding. Or maybe remembering to pop a pill just isn't your strong suit. Problem is, going without isn't a good choice, even as you get older: Nearly 40 percent of pregnancies among women in their 40s, for instance, are unplanned.</description><pubDate>Wed, 22 Jul 2009 16:26:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Reinventing the condom - for women</title><link>http://money.cnn.com/2009/07/02/smallbusiness/selling_female_condom.fsb/index.htm</link><guid>http://money.cnn.com/2009/07/02/smallbusiness/selling_female_condom.fsb/index.htm</guid><description>Talk about patient money. It took The Female Health Company, a Chicago-based maker of female condoms, almost 20 years to turn a profit.</description><pubDate>Tue, 07 Jul 2009 22:06:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>China tries to stop spread of HIV/AIDS among prostitutes</title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/asiapcf/06/19/china.aids.prostitutes/index.html#cnnSTCText</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/asiapcf/06/19/china.aids.prostitutes/index.html#cnnSTCText</guid><description>A 19-year-old prostitute working in an apartment that doubles as a brothel said she has up to eight clients a day.</description><pubDate>Mon, 22 Jun 2009 10:03:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Your period: What's normal, what's not, what to do</title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2009/HEALTH/06/17/menstrual.problem.fix/index.html#cnnSTCText</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2009/HEALTH/06/17/menstrual.problem.fix/index.html#cnnSTCText</guid><description>Your period comes at the same time every month ... except when it doesn't. Suddenly, without warning, you're early or late, or your flow is heavy, light, or nonexistent (and you know you're not pregnant!). You and millions of women understandably wonder, Is this normal or is something terribly wrong?</description><pubDate>Wed, 17 Jun 2009 15:57:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Many women put pregnancy plans on hold in shaky economy</title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2009/HEALTH/05/28/pregnancy.economy.postpone/index.html#cnnSTCText</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2009/HEALTH/05/28/pregnancy.economy.postpone/index.html#cnnSTCText</guid><description>Diana Adam, 35, and her husband wanted to have a second child this year. The timing just seemed right. She had a job as a software engineer at a big market research company near San Francisco, California, and it had good benefits -- including paid maternity leave. He was looking for a faculty position after finishing his Ph.D. in sociology but had a steady job as a lecturer at a state university. Their first child, a boy, was three.</description><pubDate>Thu, 28 May 2009 21:11:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Commentary: Plan B risky for 17 year-old girls</title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2009/HEALTH/04/30/galanos.plan.b/index.html#cnnSTCText</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2009/HEALTH/04/30/galanos.plan.b/index.html#cnnSTCText</guid><description>In a matter of weeks, teenage girls, just 17 years old, will be able to get their hands on the "morning after pill" without ever talking to a doctor and without their parents ever knowing or being a part of this major decision.</description><pubDate>Fri, 01 May 2009 15:12:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>FDA to allow morning-after pill over the counter for 17-year-olds</title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2009/HEALTH/04/22/plan.b.age/index.html#cnnSTCText</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2009/HEALTH/04/22/plan.b.age/index.html#cnnSTCText</guid><description>Seventeen-year-old women should be able to buy the "morning-after pill" without a prescription within a few weeks, a government spokesman said Thursday.</description><pubDate>Thu, 23 Apr 2009 19:45:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Christian doctors' group protests rolling back 'conscience' rule</title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2009/POLITICS/04/08/conscience.clause/index.html#cnnSTCText</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2009/POLITICS/04/08/conscience.clause/index.html#cnnSTCText</guid><description>An organization of Christian physicians argued Wednesday against an impending rollback of a federal rule allowing health care workers to refuse to provide certain reproductive services, saying it's discriminatory.</description><pubDate>Thu, 09 Apr 2009 01:13:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Facebook users wage condom campaign against Pope</title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/europe/03/28/pope.condom.attacks/index.html#cnnSTCText</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/europe/03/28/pope.condom.attacks/index.html#cnnSTCText</guid><description>Critics took to the social networking site Facebook to voice their fury over Pope Benedict's remark that condoms do not prevent HIV.</description><pubDate>Mon, 30 Mar 2009 15:19:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>In troubled times, vasectomies snip and prosper</title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2009/HEALTH/03/24/vasectomy.increase.economy/index.html#cnnSTCText</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2009/HEALTH/03/24/vasectomy.increase.economy/index.html#cnnSTCText</guid><description>Dr. J. Stephen Jones had seven vasectomies to perform in a day.</description><pubDate>Mon, 30 Mar 2009 15:15:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Pope visits Africa, reaffirms ban on condoms</title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/africa/03/17/cameroon.pope/index.html#cnnSTCText</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/africa/03/17/cameroon.pope/index.html#cnnSTCText</guid><description>Pope Benedict XVI refused Wednesday to soften the Vatican's ban on condom use as he arrived in Africa for his first visit to the continent as pope.</description><pubDate>Thu, 19 Mar 2009 00:22:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>White House set to reverse health care conscience clause</title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2009/POLITICS/02/27/conscience.rollback/index.html#cnnSTCText</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2009/POLITICS/02/27/conscience.rollback/index.html#cnnSTCText</guid><description>The Obama administration plans to reverse a regulation from late in the Bush administration allowing health-care workers to refuse to provide services based on moral objections, an official said Friday.</description><pubDate>Fri, 27 Feb 2009 22:31:00 EST</pubDate></item><item><title>Philippines debates government promotion of contraception</title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/asiapcf/02/08/philippines.contraception/index.html#cnnSTCText</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/asiapcf/02/08/philippines.contraception/index.html#cnnSTCText</guid><description>A debate is stirring in the predominantly Roman Catholic country of the Philippines: should the government provide contraceptives to the public?</description><pubDate>Mon, 09 Feb 2009 06:48:00 EST</pubDate></item><item><title>Commentary: Ridiculous items in stimulus plan</title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2009/POLITICS/02/02/navarrette.stimulus/index.html#cnnSTCText</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2009/POLITICS/02/02/navarrette.stimulus/index.html#cnnSTCText</guid><description>So much for the new bipartisanship.</description><pubDate>Mon, 02 Feb 2009 11:32:00 EST</pubDate></item><item><title>Obama tests his bipartisan potential</title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2009/POLITICS/01/27/obama.stimulus/index.html#cnnSTCText</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2009/POLITICS/01/27/obama.stimulus/index.html#cnnSTCText</guid><description>President Obama meets with House and Senate Republicans on Tuesday for talks that could give some indication of how much bipartisan spirit exists in support of efforts to tackle the country's economic crisis.</description><pubDate>Tue, 27 Jan 2009 19:11:00 EST</pubDate></item><item><title>Obama reverses abortion-funding policy</title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2009/POLITICS/01/23/obama.abortion/index.html#cnnSTCText</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2009/POLITICS/01/23/obama.abortion/index.html#cnnSTCText</guid><description>President Obama struck down a rule Friday that prohibits U.S. money from funding international family-planning clinics that promote abortion or provide counseling or referrals about abortion services.</description><pubDate>Sat, 24 Jan 2009 17:24:00 EST</pubDate></item><item><title>Amid protests, Obama backs 'right to choose' on Roe anniversary</title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2009/POLITICS/01/22/obama.abortion/index.html#cnnSTCText</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2009/POLITICS/01/22/obama.abortion/index.html#cnnSTCText</guid><description>President Obama affirmed his support for a woman's "right to choose" on Thursday, the 36th anniversary of the Supreme Court decision that led to the legalization of abortion, as thousands of anti-abortion activists descended on the National Mall to challenge his position.</description><pubDate>Fri, 23 Jan 2009 03:48:00 EST</pubDate></item><item><title>Lawsuits filed over Bush rule on health care workers</title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2009/HEALTH/01/16/lawsuit.health.care/index.html#cnnSTCText</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2009/HEALTH/01/16/lawsuit.health.care/index.html#cnnSTCText</guid><description>Seven states and two organizations have sued the Bush administration in an attempt to block a federal regulation that would further protect health care workers who refuse to perform abortions or other medical procedures because of religious or moral reasons.</description><pubDate>Fri, 16 Jan 2009 20:09:00 EST</pubDate></item><item><title>Virginity pledges don't mean much, study says</title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2008/HEALTH/12/30/virginity.pledges/index.html#cnnSTCText</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2008/HEALTH/12/30/virginity.pledges/index.html#cnnSTCText</guid><description>As many as one in eight teens in the United States may take a virginity pledge at some point, vowing to wait until they're married before having sex. But do such pledges work? Are pledge takers more likely than other teens to delay sexual activity?</description><pubDate>Tue, 30 Dec 2008 16:43:00 EST</pubDate></item><item><title>Blood clot risks higher for patch users</title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2008/HEALTH/dailydose/11/27/birth.control.patch/index.html#cnnSTCText</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2008/HEALTH/dailydose/11/27/birth.control.patch/index.html#cnnSTCText</guid><description>Some research suggests that the risk of leg and lung blood clots may be higher for women who use the birth-control patch instead of the pill. The Food and Drug Administration said it updated the label on the Ortho Evra birth-control patch in January 2008 to reflect the results of one study that found women using the patch faced twice the risk of clots, compared with women on the pill. But a second study found no difference in risk between the two forms of birth control.</description><pubDate>Thu, 27 Nov 2008 15:16:00 EST</pubDate></item><item><title>Abortion Rate Falls, But Not for All Women</title><link>http://www.time.com/time/health/article/0,8599,1843717,00.html?xid=feed-cnn-topics</link><guid>http://www.time.com/time/health/article/0,8599,1843717,00.html?xid=feed-cnn-topics</guid><description>A comprehensive 30-year analysis of abortion rates in the U.S. finds they're on a steady decline</description><pubDate>Tue, 23 Sep 2008 20:50:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Commentary: Wasilla's lack of sex education</title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2008/US/09/18/wasilla.native.commentary/index.html#cnnSTCText</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2008/US/09/18/wasilla.native.commentary/index.html#cnnSTCText</guid><description>As someone who was raised in Wasilla, Alaska, I can't help but feel a pride since the little town I spent most of my life in has been thrown into the national spotlight.</description><pubDate>Thu, 18 Sep 2008 19:12:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Young, childless, and snipped</title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2008/LIVING/personal/09/08/lw.young.childless.snipped/index.html#cnnSTCText</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2008/LIVING/personal/09/08/lw.young.childless.snipped/index.html#cnnSTCText</guid><description>Although he wasn't the neighborhood Lothario, and he didn't have a significant other, Jason Eskridge opted to have a vasectomy when he was 27.</description><pubDate>Mon, 08 Sep 2008 15:02:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>McCain and Obama on Abortion</title><link>http://www.time.com/time/nation/article/0,8599,1833496,00.html?xid=feed-cnn-topics</link><guid>http://www.time.com/time/nation/article/0,8599,1833496,00.html?xid=feed-cnn-topics</guid><description>While Obama's opinion seems to be an artful dodge, McCain's plain pro-life stance might steer him into troubled waters</description><pubDate>Sun, 17 Aug 2008 23:00:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Spray-On Condoms: Still a Hard Sell</title><link>http://www.time.com/time/business/article/0,8599,1832445,00.html?xid=feed-cnn-topics</link><guid>http://www.time.com/time/business/article/0,8599,1832445,00.html?xid=feed-cnn-topics</guid><description>Men complain that condoms often don't fit. A German entrepreneur has a better idea: spray them on. There's just one problem...</description><pubDate>Wed, 13 Aug 2008 17:00:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>The Long Wait for Male Birth Control</title><link>http://www.time.com/time/health/article/0,8599,1829107,00.html?xid=feed-cnn-topics</link><guid>http://www.time.com/time/health/article/0,8599,1829107,00.html?xid=feed-cnn-topics</guid><description>Researchers say that hormonal birth control for men is as possible and safe as the Pill for women, but the pharmaceutical industry says there's no market</description><pubDate>Mon, 04 Aug 2008 00:30:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Navigating the ups and downs of perimenopause</title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2008/HEALTH/conditions/07/21/hm.perimenopause/index.html#cnnSTCText</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2008/HEALTH/conditions/07/21/hm.perimenopause/index.html#cnnSTCText</guid><description>Lisle Nolan started noticing the symptoms four months ago: headaches, mood swings and a menstrual cycle that was out of whack.</description><pubDate>Mon, 21 Jul 2008 13:16:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Give the Gloucester Girls a Break</title><link>http://www.time.com/time/nation/article/0,8599,1817701,00.html?xid=feed-cnn-topics</link><guid>http://www.time.com/time/nation/article/0,8599,1817701,00.html?xid=feed-cnn-topics</guid><description>Forget the screaming and scandal. Is it possible the pregnancy pact is a sign of maturity? Nancy Gibbs thinks so</description><pubDate>Wed, 25 Jun 2008 06:00:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Pregnancy Boom at Gloucester High</title><link>http://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,1815845,00.html?xid=feed-cnn-topics</link><guid>http://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,1815845,00.html?xid=feed-cnn-topics</guid><description>A Massachusetts fishing town tries to understand why so many of its teenagers made a pact to get pregnant. How one school is grappling with the Juno effect</description><pubDate>Wed, 18 Jun 2008 22:00:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>The Philippines' Birth Control Battle</title><link>http://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,1812250,00.html?xid=feed-cnn-topics</link><guid>http://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,1812250,00.html?xid=feed-cnn-topics</guid><description>A group of impoverished Manila women are taking on church and state for the right to use modern contraceptives</description><pubDate>Fri, 06 Jun 2008 09:00:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>What Condoms Have to Do with Climate Change</title><link>http://www.time.com/time/health/article/0,8599,1739253,00.html?xid=feed-cnn-topics</link><guid>http://www.time.com/time/health/article/0,8599,1739253,00.html?xid=feed-cnn-topics</guid><description>As the global population increases, it gets harder to curb greenhouse gas emissions. Simple answer: Control the population</description><pubDate>Mon, 12 May 2008 06:00:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Group to Government: End Use of Birth-control Patch</title><link>http://www.time.com/time/health/article/0,8599,1738517,00.html?xid=feed-cnn-topics</link><guid>http://www.time.com/time/health/article/0,8599,1738517,00.html?xid=feed-cnn-topics</guid><description>Warnings about the Ortho-Evra weekly patch have escalated since a
2005 investigation by The Associated Press found patch users suffer
higher rates of life-threatening blood clots than women who take
birth-control pills</description><pubDate>Thu, 08 May 2008 18:50:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>A mom's guide to birth control </title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2008/HEALTH/family/04/22/par.birth.control/index.html#cnnSTCText</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2008/HEALTH/family/04/22/par.birth.control/index.html#cnnSTCText</guid><description>Question: I've always been on the Pill, but now I'm breastfeeding. That means I can't go back on it, right?</description><pubDate>Wed, 07 May 2008 16:15:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Birth control pills, salon haircuts can raise stroke risk</title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2008/HEALTH/conditions/03/21/healthmag.stroke/index.html#cnnSTCText</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2008/HEALTH/conditions/03/21/healthmag.stroke/index.html#cnnSTCText</guid><description>In April 1993, Britt Harwe, of Wethersfield, Connecticut, was in a good place in her life. She was 26 years old and married to a wonderful guy, and they had a daughter, Caitlin, who was just about to turn 2. She had a job she loved, too. As a customer-service representative at an insurance agency, she'd spend long hours with a phone cradled between her neck and shoulder. So when she woke up one morning with an extremely painful stiff neck, she wasn't surprised -- just a little concerned. "I wanted to get it taken care of right away because I didn't know if I'd be able to work or take care of my daughter," she says.</description><pubDate>Fri, 21 Mar 2008 14:22:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>The Spirit of Discovery: Pioneering medical discoveries</title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/americas/03/07/great.discoveries/index.html#cnnSTCText</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/americas/03/07/great.discoveries/index.html#cnnSTCText</guid><description>The discovery of HIV, a breakthrough in the treatment of bipolar disorder, the advent of the contraceptive pill ... CNN looks at some of the scientific discoveries that changed the world. </description><pubDate>Mon, 17 Mar 2008 11:42:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Why Have Abortion Rates Fallen?</title><link>http://www.time.com/time/nation/article/0,8599,1705604,00.html?xid=feed-cnn-topics</link><guid>http://www.time.com/time/nation/article/0,8599,1705604,00.html?xid=feed-cnn-topics</guid><description>Thirty-five years after Roe v. Wade, a debate is still raging -- over which side is responsible for the drop in abortions</description><pubDate>Mon, 21 Jan 2008 20:00:00 EST</pubDate></item><item><title>Birth Control for Kids?</title><link>http://www.time.com/time/nation/article/0,8599,1673227,00.html?xid=feed-cnn-topics</link><guid>http://www.time.com/time/nation/article/0,8599,1673227,00.html?xid=feed-cnn-topics</guid><description>The outcry over Portland, Maine's decision to provide the pill to young girls shows that adults still have trouble discussing sex with each other, much less with our kids</description><pubDate>Thu, 18 Oct 2007 18:00:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Big Pharma's ready for prime time</title><link>http://money.cnn.com/2007/09/28/magazines/fortune/simons_productplacement.fortune/index.htm</link><guid>http://money.cnn.com/2007/09/28/magazines/fortune/simons_productplacement.fortune/index.htm</guid><description>Try this at home: as the new television season unfolds, take note of the number of times your favorite character casually mentions a name-brand prescription drug. It'll happen more than you think.</description><pubDate>Fri, 28 Sep 2007 02:47:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Morning-after pill sales jump as access eases</title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2007/HEALTH/08/24/contraceptive.reut/index.html#cnnSTCText</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2007/HEALTH/08/24/contraceptive.reut/index.html#cnnSTCText</guid><description>Sales of the Plan B "morning-after pill" nearly doubled in the past year, exceeding expectations after the U.S. government allowed adults to buy the emergency contraceptive without a prescription.</description><pubDate>Fri, 24 Aug 2007 07:44:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>'Morning-after pill' sales nearly double</title><link>http://money.cnn.com/2007/08/24/news/companies/barr_pill.reut/index.htm</link><guid>http://money.cnn.com/2007/08/24/news/companies/barr_pill.reut/index.htm</guid><description>Sales of the Plan B "morning-after pill" nearly doubled in the past year, exceeding expectations after the U.S. government allowed adults to buy the emergency contraceptive without a prescription.</description><pubDate>Fri, 24 Aug 2007 06:39:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Morning-After Pill Sales Soar</title><link>http://www.time.com/time/health/article/0,8599,1655319,00.html?xid=feed-cnn-topics</link><guid>http://www.time.com/time/health/article/0,8599,1655319,00.html?xid=feed-cnn-topics</guid><description>In the year since it was approved for over-the-counter sales, the morning-after pill has become a huge commercial success for its manufacturer</description><pubDate>Wed, 22 Aug 2007 21:00:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>The High Cost of Campus Birth Control</title><link>http://www.time.com/time/specials/2007/article/0,28804,1651473_1651472_1650461,00.html?xid=feed-cnn-topics</link><guid>http://www.time.com/time/specials/2007/article/0,28804,1651473_1651472_1650461,00.html?xid=feed-cnn-topics</guid><description>With prescription contraceptive prices soaring, health providers are
worried female students will practice unsafe sex</description><pubDate>Mon, 13 Aug 2007 21:00:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Brazil to Subsidize Birth Control</title><link>http://www.time.com/time/health/article/0,8599,1625886,00.html?xid=feed-cnn-topics</link><guid>http://www.time.com/time/health/article/0,8599,1625886,00.html?xid=feed-cnn-topics</guid><description>Da Silva announced a new program Monday to sharply decrease unwanted pregnancies in Latin America's largest nation by subsidizing birth control pills</description><pubDate>Wed, 30 May 2007 12:15:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Controversial Birth Control Approved</title><link>http://www.time.com/time/health/article/0,8599,1624442,00.html?xid=feed-cnn-topics</link><guid>http://www.time.com/time/health/article/0,8599,1624442,00.html?xid=feed-cnn-topics</guid><description>The first birth-control pill meant to put a stop to women's monthly periods indefinitely won federal approval Tuesday</description><pubDate>Wed, 23 May 2007 20:55:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Contraceptive unlikely to boost Wyeth</title><link>http://money.cnn.com/2007/05/21/news/companies/wyeth/index.htm</link><guid>http://money.cnn.com/2007/05/21/news/companies/wyeth/index.htm</guid><description>The FDA will decide Tuesday whether Wyeth's experimental birth control pill Lybrel gets a green light for the U.S. market.</description><pubDate>Mon, 21 May 2007 18:16:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>10 myths about the pill busted </title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2007/HEALTH/03/13/healthmag.pill/index.html</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2007/HEALTH/03/13/healthmag.pill/index.html</guid><description>One day you're told that birth-control pills sap your sex drive and make you fat. 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He led the ethics panel that evaluated the controversial growth attenuation therapy for a severely disabled girl identified only as Ashley. In 2004, Ashley's uterus and breasts were removed and she was given high doses of estrogen to keep her small and to retard her sexual development.</description><pubDate>Thu, 11 Jan 2007 23:10:00 EST</pubDate></item><item><title>Dr. Gupta on breast cancer decline: Hormone replacement therapy is key</title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2006/HEALTH/12/15/gupta.breast.cancer/index.html</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2006/HEALTH/12/15/gupta.breast.cancer/index.html</guid><description>The number of new breast cancer cases dropped by 7 percent in 2003, according to research presented at a breast cancer conference in San Antonio, Texas, on Thursday. But some cancer experts wonder whether the decline will last.  CNN's Soledad O'Brien discussed the new findings with Chief Medical Correspondent Dr. Sanjay Gupta.</description><pubDate>Fri, 15 Dec 2006 18:07:00 EST</pubDate></item><item><title>Wal-Mart will carry over-the-counter Plan B pill</title><link>http://money.cnn.com/2006/08/25/news/companies/retailers_planb/index.htm</link><guid>http://money.cnn.com/2006/08/25/news/companies/retailers_planb/index.htm</guid><description>Wal-Mart said Friday it will carry the Plan B emergency contraceptive pill for over-the-counter sale possibly by the end of the year.</description><pubDate>Fri, 25 Aug 2006 18:50:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Drugstores mull nonprescription Plan B sales</title><link>http://money.cnn.com/2006/08/24/news/companies/retailers_planb/index.htm</link><guid>http://money.cnn.com/2006/08/24/news/companies/retailers_planb/index.htm</guid><description>Discounter Wal-Mart and drugstore CVS said they are reviewing the Food and Drug Administration approval Thursday of the 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approved for use by women over age 18 in the United States.</description><pubDate>Mon, 31 Jul 2006 15:16:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>FDA says "not yet" to Wyeth birth control drug</title><link>http://money.cnn.com/2006/06/28/news/companies/wyeth/index.htm</link><guid>http://money.cnn.com/2006/06/28/news/companies/wyeth/index.htm</guid><description>The FDA told Wyeth that it's going to have to do some more work on an experimental birth control drug before getting the green light from regulators, said the drugmaker on Wednesday.</description><pubDate>Wed, 28 Jun 2006 19:45:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Three stocks worth buying</title><link>http://money.cnn.com/2006/03/13/commentary/streetlife/streetlife/index.htm</link><guid>http://money.cnn.com/2006/03/13/commentary/streetlife/streetlife/index.htm</guid><description>Here's three to ponder this Monday ...</description><pubDate>Mon, 13 Mar 2006 13:45:00 EST</pubDate></item><item><title>Wal-Mart to carry Plan B 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millions of women who use the Ortho Evra contraceptive patch that they are being exposed to about 60 percent more estrogen than with a typical birth control pill, which could put them at higher risk for blood clots.</description><pubDate>Fri, 11 Nov 2005 12:47:00 EST</pubDate></item><item><title>Gupta: Progress, hurdles in breast cancer fight</title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2005/HEALTH/10/10/breast.cancer.QA/index.html</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2005/HEALTH/10/10/breast.cancer.QA/index.html</guid><description>In 1987, around one in four women age 50 and older said they'd had a mammogram and breast exam in the past two years. 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Using a simple plastic-and-stainless-steel device, the doctor slip...</description><pubDate>Mon, 21 Jul 2003 04:01:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Users Say SAM-e Is a Wonder Drug...Are They High?</title><link>http://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/2000/11/13/291590/index.htm</link><guid>http://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/2000/11/13/291590/index.htm</guid><description>You might be suspicious of a single pill that reportedly helps treat depression, osteoarthritis, liver disease, multiple sclerosis, Parkinson's disease, and migraine headaches. You'd be even more s...</description><pubDate>Mon, 13 Nov 2000 05:01:00 EST</pubDate></item><item><title>Sex, Drugs, and Career Choices When young women first             got access to the birth control pill in the late 1960s,       </title><link>http://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/2000/04/03/277097/index.htm</link><guid>http://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/2000/04/03/277097/index.htm</guid><description>The effects of some technological changes are obvious, as in the case of the Internet revolution that's shredding and reweaving the fabric of American business before our eyes. But other innovation...</description><pubDate>Mon, 03 Apr 2000 04:01:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Coming Up</title><link>http://money.cnn.com/magazines/moneymag/moneymag_archive/1999/09/01/265119/index.htm</link><guid>http://money.cnn.com/magazines/moneymag/moneymag_archive/1999/09/01/265119/index.htm</guid><description>24 FEDERAL OPEN MARKET COMMITTEE MEETING. 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Here's what to do about soaring illegitimac</title><link>http://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/1994/04/18/79193/index.htm</link><guid>http://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/1994/04/18/79193/index.htm</guid><description>NOT A SMIDGEN of scandal accompanied Shawn Harland Erickson when he arrived into the world early on New Year's Day, the first baby of 1994 in Brockton, Massachusetts. Shawn's mother, 19-year-old Ta...</description><pubDate>Mon, 18 Apr 1994 04:01:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>PRODUCTS TO WATCH</title><link>http://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/1990/12/03/74407/index.htm</link><guid>http://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/1990/12/03/74407/index.htm</guid><description>FAT-FREE ESKIMO PIE How's this for a wintertime treat? Eskimo Pie Corp. has won the race to produce the first fatless ice cream novelty. 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N</title><link>http://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/1986/11/24/68331/index.htm</link><guid>http://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/1986/11/24/68331/index.htm</guid><description>HAS ANY other product received such free advertising? As AIDS extends its deadly shadow, doctors, scientists, and public health authorities unanimously recommend one product against it: the condom....</description><pubDate>Mon, 24 Nov 1986 05:01:00 EST</pubDate></item><item><title>The Editor's Desk</title><link>http://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/1986/03/03/67241/index.htm</link><guid>http://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/1986/03/03/67241/index.htm</guid><description>AS WE PLAN articles for FORTUNE, we try to anticipate what readers will be most interested in when the stories appear weeks, possibly months, later. 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