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New York's Court of Appeals , the state's highest court, handed down a 6-0 decision Thursday, banning Catholic Charities and nine other social service organizations from refusing to provide birth control insurance coverage for...

Dr. Lester Crawford , a veterinarian who served briefly as commissioner of the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) last year, will plead guilty to failure to disclose his financial interest in companies regulated by the...

The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) on Thursday approved the over-the-counter sale of the "morning after" or Plan B emergency contraceptive pill , to women 18 and over. A controversial provision of the...

Democratic senators criticized the acting director of the US Food and Drug Administration Tuesday for the timing of the agency's announcement that it would reconsider allowing some over-the-counter sales of emergency contraception. Monday's surprise announcement [FDA press...

JURIST Guest Columnist Elizabeth Price Foley of Florida International University College of Law says that President Bush's veto of stem cell research legislation is an abuse of his constitutional authority antithetical to the rulings of the US Supreme Court... For...

A former commissioner of the US Food and Drug Administration testified in a deposition that the agency postponed a decision to allow over-the-counter sales of Plan B emergency contraceptives while it considered how...

A Vatican panel Tuesday condemned same-sex marriage as a major threat to the family, along with abortion , contraception and in vitro fertilization. The Pontifical Council for the Family , founded...

Lester Crawford , the embattled former head of the US Food and Drug Administration who stepped down in September 2005 after only three months in office in the midst of a furor over the...

AP is reporting that South Dakota Gov. Mike Rounds has signed legislation that will ban most abortions in the state, excluding only those necessary to save a woman's life. Under the bill , approved by the state...

US mega-retailer Wal-Mart announced Friday that it will stock the emergency contraceptive pill known as Plan B in all of its pharmacies nationwide beginning March 20. Previously the chain had...