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03.10.10

The following summarizes selected women's health-related blog entries. ~ "Stupak's Abortion Argument: Still More About Class Than Choice": Washington Post's "Ezra Klein": The "practical effect" of Rep. Bart Stupak's (D-Mich...

02.12.10

The Middleton, Wis., Police Department has declined to release a report conducted by the U.S. Department of Homeland Security assessing the threat posed by local groups opposed to and supporting abortion rights that were demonstrating at a February 2009 meeting held by the University of Wisconsin Hospital Board to decide whether to open an abortion clinic, the AP/Washington Post reports...

06.30.09

Sixty-two percent of U.S. residents want Supreme Court nominee Sonia Sotomayor to be confirmed, and 55% say she is "about right" on a liberal-to-conservative scale, according to a recent Washington Post/ABC News poll, the

06.30.09

Sixty-two percent of U.S. residents want Supreme Court nominee Sonia Sotomayor to be confirmed, and 55% say she is "about right" on a liberal-to-conservative scale, according to a recent Washington Post/ABC News poll, the

06.29.09

New York's Empire State Stem Cell Board earlier this month decided to allow embryonic stem cell researchers who receive state funding to compensate women for donating their eggs for use in research, making New York the first state to enact such a policy, the Washington Post reports (Stein, Washington Post, 6/26).

06.29.09

The Associated Press/Washington Post reported that U.S. health officials on Thursday said they believe as many as 1 million Americans have been infected with H1N1 and "6 percent or more of some urban populations are infected." The estimates were based upon survey data collected by health officials and mathematical modeling.

06.29.09

USAID announced on Thursday a $1 million commitment to a Red Cross project aimed at helping those "living along southern Africa's Zambezi River cope with worsening natural disasters because of climate change," the AP/Washington Post reports.

06.16.09

South African AIDS activist Thembi Ngubane recently died of drug-resistant tuberculosis at the age of 24, the AP/Washington Post reports (Nullis, AP/Washington Post, 6/14). According to the

04.13.09

President Obama on Wednesday signed an executive order establishing the White House Office of Health Reform, the Washington Post's "44" reports (Connolly, "44," Washington Post, 4/8). In signing the order, Obama said that health care overhaul is one of the biggest priorities for the first year of his presidency.

04.13.09

"One of the more positive legacies of the Bush administration is the President's Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief," a Washington Post editorial says. According to the editorial, PEPFAR -- "the brainchild of President George W. Bush in 2003" -- is an "unprecedented multiyear and multibillion-dollar commitment by the United States to combat the epidemic's deadly march across Africa.

04.13.09

"One of the more positive legacies of the Bush administration is the President's Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief," a Washington Post editorial says. According to the editorial, PEPFAR -- "the brainchild of President George W. Bush in 2003" -- is an "unprecedented multiyear and multibillion-dollar commitment by the United States to combat the epidemic's deadly march across Africa.

04.09.09

The Republican Party "should start paying more attention to" Republican National Committee Chair Michael Steele if it "wants to get back into the game," Washington Post columnist Eugene Robinson writes in an opinion piece.

04.09.09

The Republican Party "should start paying more attention to" Republican National Committee Chair Michael Steele if it "wants to get back into the game," Washington Post columnist Eugene Robinson writes in an opinion piece.

04.09.09

The Republican Party "should start paying more attention to" Republican National Committee Chair Michael Steele if it "wants to get back into the game," Washington Post columnist Eugene Robinson writes in an opinion piece.

04.09.09

The Republican Party "should start paying more attention to" Republican National Committee Chair Michael Steele if it "wants to get back into the game," Washington Post columnist Eugene Robinson writes in an opinion piece.

04.09.09

The Republican Party "should start paying more attention to" Republican National Committee Chair Michael Steele if it "wants to get back into the game," Washington Post columnist Eugene Robinson writes in an opinion piece.

04.09.09

The Republican Party "should start paying more attention to" Republican National Committee Chair Michael Steele if it "wants to get back into the game," Washington Post columnist Eugene Robinson writes in an opinion piece.

04.06.09

In her book "Dead Aid," author Dambisa Moyo comes to "disastrously wrongheaded conclusions" regarding U.S. foreign aid, columnist Michael Gerson writes in a Washington Post opinion piece.

04.06.09

In her book "Dead Aid," author Dambisa Moyo comes to "disastrously wrongheaded conclusions" regarding U.S. foreign aid, columnist Michael Gerson writes in a Washington Post opinion piece.