Expanding insurance coverage for a type of in vitro fertilization known as elective single-embryo transfer could lead to improved health outcomes and lower health care costs, according to a newly published study that included researchers from the University of Colorado School of Medicine.
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Where Do the 2016 Candidates Stand on Contraception?
Access to safe and effective birth control is part of health care for tens of millions of Americans. The vast majority of Americans view birth control as “morally acceptable,” and make sharp distinctions between approval for methods of preventing pregnancy, and methods of terminating it.
Veterans Seek Help for Infertility Inflicted by Wounds of War
During a firefight in Afghanistan in 2005, Army Cpl. Tyler Wilson, 20, was hit by a bullet that pierced his spine and left him paralyzed below the waist.Since then, the Department of Veterans Affairs has provided him with free health care, as it does for all veterans who were disabled while serving. Yet there was a gap in his coverage that came as a shock.
Title X: The Lynchpin Of Publicly Funded Family Planning In The United States
The Title X national family planning program was created 45 years ago with broad bipartisan support. Today, Congress has Title X—still the only federal grant program dedicated entirely to family planning and related preventive health care—in its sights for severe funding cuts or even elimination.
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Geir Lie is an Economist with The Partnership for Maternal, Newborn & Child Health (PMNCH). He specializes in work on accountability, and finance and economics. Geir joined PMNCH from the Department of Health Systems Governance and Financing at the World Health Organization in Geneva, where his work centered on resource tracking for health. Prior to WHO, Geir was a Senior Analyst for Abt Associates, where he focused on health accounts and costing. Geir has experience as a Coordinator for the Innovation Working Group of the UN Secretary General’s Global Strategy for Women’s and Children’s Health where he analysed areas of innovative approaches responsible for making cost-effective contributions to health care systems around the world. He also worked for the Health, Nutrition, and Population Anchor of the World Bank where he assessed fiscal space for health, analysed the impact of the financial crisis on health expenditures and health outcomes, and examined data on development assistance for reproductive health and nutrition. Geir holds a Master’s degree in Health Economics and a BA in Economics from the University of Oslo.
Health-Care Company Looks to Increase Emergency Contraceptive Use by Cutting Price in Half
A health-care company founded last fall is looking to increase the number of women using emergency contraception (EC) in one simple way: by cutting its price in half.
New Guidelines For Estimating Women’s Due Dates Issued By OB-GYN Group
On Monday, the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists (ACOG) joined with the American Institute of Ultrasound in Medicine and the Society for Maternal-Fetal Medicine to release new guidelines for health care providers on estimating accurate due dates for expectant mothers.
American Men Have Worse Access to Reproductive and Sexual Health Care, Shows Research
Compared with women, American men have worse access to reproductive and sexual health care, research shows, a disparity fueled in part by the lack of standard clinical guidelines on the types and timing of exams, tests and treatments that should be offered to all men of reproductive age.
Senate Democrats Set With Military Contraception Bill
Senate Democrats plan to introduce a bill Wednesday that would require military health care to cover all forms of contraception without co-pays — similar to the coverage required under Obamacare
Supreme Court Sides with Employers Over Birth Control Mandate
The Supreme Court struck a key part of President Obama’s health-care law Monday, ruling that some companies may refuse to offer insurance coverage of specific birth control methods if they conflict with the owner’s religious beliefs.