All posts tagged "Side Effects"

In an effort to make birth control more accessible, lawmakers in Oregon and California are working on legislation that would allow women to get prescriptions for the pill from pharmacists instead of their gynecologists. The idea behind the proposal is that women wouldn't have to go through any hassles or pay the extra costs necessary to visit their doctor for a simple prescription.

A new prostate cancer treatment using high frequency sound waves may be a viable alternative to surgery and radiotherapy with less chance of incontinence or impotence, researchers said Tuesday.

In most of the coverage about Harry Reid's statement that the country was ready to vote a light-skinned Barack Obama (also because of his lack of "Negro dialect") there has been less discussion about the fact that Reid, while clumsy and too-candid for some people, was correct -- and to delve into the why.