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As featured on the cover of pause® magazine, Fran Drescher tells women in an accompanying profile, "Once you wake up and smell the coffee, it's hard to go back to sleep." The actress, best known for her role as Miss Fine on "The Nanny," is a tireless advocate for raising awareness of women's cancers and is herself a cancer survivor. "Women need to be able to evaluate whether their doctors are doing all they're supposed to do," says Drescher.

Richmond, Va., Roman Catholic Bishop Francis DiLorenzo in a letter published on Monday apologized after Commonwealth Catholic Charities employees helped a 16-year-old Guatemalan girl obtain an abortion in January, the

Reuters - Key-hole surgery to treat endometriosis is associated with good short-term outcomes but has a high reoperation rate in the long run, research suggests. Hysterectomy, on the other hand, while "too radical," is associated with a low reoperation rate, the study team found, and preservation of the ovaries is a "viable option."