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One hundred years ago last Sunday, nurse Margaret Sanger opened the nation's first birth control clinic on Amboy Street in Brooklyn. For a 10-cent fee, visitors were given a pamphlet — “What Every Girl Should Know" — and a tutorial on the female reproductive system and how to use various contraceptives, according to a New York University project about Sanger’s legacy. That clinic eventually evolved into Planned Parenthood, a nonprofit organization that is credited with making reproductive health a priority for all and that treats millions of people in its clinics each year. (Cha, 10/18)

A new study published in the New England Journal of Medicine shows that breast cancer screening using mammograms leads to unnecessary overtreatment of non-harmful breast lumps. Researchers found that for every woman who may have had her life saved by a mammogram, four women were found to have tumors that may never have become serious. What’s the big deal, you may be thinking? Well for those four women, a false positive mammogram result can lead to a long road of biopsies, tests and unnecessary medical interventions. These tests come with their own risks including bleeding, infection and anxiety. (Yasmin, 10/18)