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March 27, 2008 | Paula J. Caplan |
Health
The Mystery Suspect in the U.S. "Obesity Epidemic"
If you wanted to make someone feel helpless, hopeless, even crazy, one good way to do it would be this: Teach them that others will value them mostly for being thin and being nurturant, put them in ...
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Who Is Making Those Troubling Toys from China?
Just as Detroit is famous for making cars and Napa for producing wine, Cheng Hai in Guangdong Province, not far from Hong Kong, is known for manufacturing toys for children all over the world, espec...
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November 02, 2007 | Linda Steinberg |
Health
Hysterectomies—Frequently Performed But Often Unnecessary
Hysterectomy, the second most frequent major operation performed on women in the United States, has long been criticized as being over performed, especially for benign conditions. In the late sixtie...
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On World Poverty Day—Women Hold the Key
This year marks almost the halfway point in the 15-year time-span set in 2000 for the world to realize eight ambitious targets, the United Nations Millennium Development Goals. Still a millennium aw...
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America’s Military Kids Are Latest Collateral Damage
The children of the troops serving in Iraq are experiencing significant collateral damage at home, according to two staggering new reports on the occurrence of child maltreatment, neglect, and abuse...
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Opting for Family-Friendly Policies
In a recent article and a follow-up blog on women’s work patterns, two Washington Post writers cling to the traditional media framing of the difficult options facing a mother as being within the rea...
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SiCKO Hits the House
It’s ironic, but outside of hospitals and day care centers, perhaps the best place to acquire some kind of illness on Wednesday in Washington, D.C., was Michael Moore’s press conference on Capitol H...
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Misleading Ads and How They Hurt Us
Selling anxiety sells medicine. Drug companies know this and profit by it. But are women benefiting as much as the industry’s bottom line?
The pharmaceutical industry spent much of its $4.2 billio...
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Media Mistakes Fuel High Court Abortion Ruling
[The] partial birth abortion ban is a political scam but a public relations goldmine... The major benefit is the debate that surrounds it. —Randall Terry
Ruth Bader Ginzburg’s Dissent As Linda ...
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April 09, 2007 | Peggy Simpson |
Health
Understanding Women’s Risks for Cardiovascular Disease
Most women think cardiovascular disease is a “man’s disease.” Wrong.
Coronary heart disease caused one in six female deaths in 2004 compared to one in 30 from breast cancer, says the American Hear...
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One More Taboo
In 1984, when my brother came down with the mysterious disease that came to be called AIDS, the diagnosis was a death sentence; today it is a disconcerting and traumatic, but not fatal, surprise. Th...
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Promising Signs at the UN
While he was still secretary-general designate, in his first address to the General Assembly, Ban Ki-Moon promised he would “lead by example” and announced that one of his goals was to appoint more ...
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Regan Hofmann on the Hidden Faces of HIV
“Is there any way that we can stop this?” Regan Hofmann asked the Creative Director of POZ magazine the night before its April edition went to press. With the April issue, Hofmann officially came ou...
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Court Documents Reveal FDA Politicized Plan B Approval-Update
On August 24th, in an almost complete reversal of its 2004 decision, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approved Plan B emergency contraception to be sold over the counter, but only to women 18 ...
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Court Documents Reveal FDA Politicized Plan B Approval
Recently released court documents in a suit filed against the Food and Drug Administration charge that the FDA faced undue political pressure by the Bush Administration to stymie over-the-counter sa...
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Colombia Women’s Small Step Forward
A recent ruling by Colombia’s Constitutional Court overturning an outright ban on abortion, even for victims of rape and incest, garnered headlines around the world. A story not so widely reported h...
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July 21, 2006 | Milon Nagi |
Health
Global Health Advocate Honored in New York
Geeta Rao Gupta, an international expert on gender issues of HIV/AIDS, was destined from an early age to work involving her passion for women’s human rights. Accepting the Working Mother Media Legac...
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Anti-Choice Protesters in Jackson Meet Their Match
A third of a century after Roe v. Wade legalized abortion, women in the U.S. struggle daily to defeat federal and state infringements on reproductive rights and a woman's control over her life. But ...
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Black Church Leaders Confront Sexuality Issues
At a time when some see a growing divide between religious values and contemporary culture, a group of African American church leaders are meeting this week in Washington, D.C., to narrow the gap. W...
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Teens Need Honest Information About Sex
When the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) released its latest data on U.S. teens and sexual behavior, it was cautionary good news for those of us who base our opinions on the researc...
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“Best Case Scenario” on Female Genital Mutilation
This week, African women activists welcomed a newly published report from the World Health Organization (WHO) on the devastating effects of Female Genital Mutilation (FGM), while warning that its im...