A weekly check-up of gender, medicine, and history in the news.

• Salon interviews Boulder author, Florence Williams, on her new book,  Breasts: A Natural and Unnatural History

• Is the FDA preparing to release the first preventative HIV medication?

• Fifty Shades of Grey is too racy for Florida librarians. They must have read our own Carolyn’s post on the subject!

• The BBC reports on a new study that found vaginal rings and patches may be a riskier form of contraception than the oral pill.

• Smithsonian.com comments on the raw milk movement.

• Is it time for a younger generation of feminists to carry on the fight for abortion rights?

• A revised definition of “addiction” may have enormous consequences for patients, doctors, and health insurance companies.

• Where do United States’ mothers rank in a new international survey on the “State of the World’s Mothers“?

• The painful story behind the history of dentistry