Buoyed by huge election gains for their allies, anti-abortion activists head into their annual March for Life rallies sensing a prime opportunity in many states to rein in the broad abortion access established 38 years ago by the Roe v Wade decision.

A new cosmetic surgery procedure is cheap and uses only local anesthesia. Sound like a bargain? In reality, the procedures are done by barely trained surgeons who profit from dangerous operations no hospital would let them do.

Gwyneth Paltrow continues to open up about her experience with postpartum depression following the birth of her second child.

The dawn of the new year typically sees a sharp spike in requests for pills that can prevent pregnancy after unprotected sex, say researchers, health advocates and drug makers.

Holiday heels may look dazzling, but can be agony on your feet. But you don't have to switch to wearing only Crocs. You can still wear stilettos (sometimes) and sidestep heinous maladies by treating your feet right.

Raynaud's phenomenon is a painful, annoying and sometimes embarrassing disorder of the blood vessels.

Julian Assange may seem like an unlikely babe magnet, but the pasty, weak-chinned Wikileaks founder apparently has a number of women in a hormonal twist, despite being accused of committing sexual crimes against two Swedish women.

Some women are paying a price for sporting UGG boots beyond their $140 price tag. The uber-popular furry footwear may be a health risk as well as a fashion hazard.

Hilary Waller remembers begging her mother to let her fast on Yom Kippur. At 10 years old she was a bit too young, but embracing the rigid discipline seemed desperately important. Health experts say eating disorders are a serious, underreported disease among Orthodox Jewish women.

Individual health insurance policies generally don't cover maternity care, a recent investigation found, leaving many couples unexpectedly forced to pay thousands of dollars out of their own pockets.

New research has shown men and women respond very differently to some medications.   For starters, women's livers produce different versions of enzymes that break down drugs.  Here's how to make sure you're taking the right medications for you.

For Mona Ramouni, getting a guide dog was an impossibility. From an observant Muslim family, Ramouni?s parents didn?t want a dog in the house. Now, Ramouni has a new companion: Cali the guide horse.

Fifty years after the pill, another birth control revolution may be on the horizon: free contraception for women in the U.S., thanks to the new health care law.

Blame the clock for skipping exercise, even romance? Ruled by your sweet tooth?Quit whitewashing your bad behaviors. Instead, name your excuses and crash  through them.

Robert Edwards of Britain won the 2010 Nobel Prize in medicine for developing in-vitro fertilization, a breakthrough that has helped millions of infertile couples worldwide have children.

These days it?s not enough to dress and get plastic surgery like a celebrity. We have to eat like one, too. With Twitter, blogs and Facebook it?s easier than ever to find out how you can graze like Gwyneth or detox like Demi. But don't be swayed by the eating styles of the slim and famous.

Ten years ago, after long and bitter debate, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration approved use of the abortion pill. New turmoil may lie ahead as the pill's proponents begin using telemedicine to make it more available.

A global campaign that aims to save the lives of 16 million mothers and children over the next five years launched by U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon on Wednesday with as much as $40 billion in commitments from world governments and private aid groups.

Scientists have found a region of DNA that can increase or decrease the high chance of breast cancer linked to a particular gene variant ? a finding that could help doctors keep a closer eye on women most at risk.

Maternal mortality has fallen by 34 percent in developing nations, but that's still less than half of a U.N. interagency's goal, health experts say.