FDA advisory panels back making Opill birth control pill available over the counter

Advisers to the Food and Drug Administration on Wednesday voted unanimously to recommend making a birth control pill available without a prescription. The 17-0 vote by two advisory panels came

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New draft guidance drops breast cancer screening age

Most women with average risk should start screening for breast cancer at age 40, and they should get screened every other year through age 74, according to new draft guidance Tuesday from the U.S.

When Should Women Get Regular Mammograms? At 40, U.S. Panel Now Says.

Alarmed by an increase in breast cancer diagnoses among younger women and persistently high death rates among Black women in particular, health experts on Tuesday offered a stark revision to the

Illinois trooper shot, motorist dead in exchange of gunfire

MT. VERNON, Ill. (AP) — A state trooper was wounded and a motorist killed early Tuesday in an exchange of gunfire along an interstate highway in southern Illinois, police said.Illinois State Police

Senate Democrats ask billionaire Harlan Crow to list gifts to Clarence Thomas and any other justices

The Senate Judiciary Committee on Monday asked the Republican megadonor who has come under scrutiny for providing lavish trips and gifts to Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas to identify the full

What we know about the North Texas outlet mall gunman and his online posts

A gunman who killed eight people at a Texas shopping mall purportedly wrote online of his support for Nazi ideology, authorities said. Mauricio Garcia, 33, also wounded at least seven others Saturday

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