Amnesty International says rural and Indian pregnant women in Peru get unequal health careLIMA, Peru — Peru’s government doesn’t provide adequate care for pregnant women in the impoverished highlands and jungle, a failure reflected in one of the highest maternal mortality rates in the hemisphere, a human rights group said Thursday. Urine on floor, blood on beds: Pakistan hospitals overwhelmed by war and refugeesDAGAR, Pakistan — She doesn’t have a name yet. FDA to allow 17-year-olds to get ‘morning-after’ birth control over the counterWASHINGTON — Women’s groups cheered the government’s decision to allow 17-year-olds to buy the “morning-after” emergency contraceptive without a doctor’s prescription, but conservatives denounced it as a blow to parental supervision of teens. FDA to allow 17-year-olds to get ‘morning-after’ birth control over the counterWASHINGTON — Seventeen-year-olds will be able to buy the “morning-after” emergency contraceptive without a doctor’s prescription, a decision that conservatives denounced as a blow to parental supervision of teens but that women’s groups said represents sound science. FDA to allow 17-year-olds to get ‘morning-after’ birth control pill over the counterWASHINGTON — Women’s groups cheered the government’s decision to allow 17-year-olds to buy the “morning-after” emergency contraceptive without a doctor’s prescription, but conservatives denounced it as a blow to parental supervision of teens. |