At the same time as health experts and advocates marked the annual Back Up Your Birth Control Campaign Day of Action on Wednesday - dedicated to increasing awareness about emergency contraception - some also are calling for a greater focus on pregnancy prevention methods other than EC, Washington Times columnist and reporter Cheryl Wetzstein writes...

Although the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists recently recommended that women begin cervical cancer screening at age 21, "the advice seems odd" considering that one in four U.S. teenage girls has a sexually transmitted infection, columnist Cheryl Wetzstein writes in the Washington Times...

About 40 physicians, medical students, nurses and lab technicians from the Christian Medical and Dental Associations dressed in lab coats demonstrated at the National Press Club on Wednesday to protest against President Obama's plan to rescind the HHS provider "conscience" rule put in place during the final days of President George W. Bush's administration, the Washington Times reports.