Thu, November 01, 2012
Shadia Mansour, NWHN Intern
Last Fall I began a research project that left many asking why I would want to voluntarily spend 9 months on the topic of menstruation and “PMS” (Premenstural Syndrome). My reason was simple: I wanted to know why menstruation is made out to be the recurring female burden and why “I’m PMS-ing” has become synonymous for “I have my period.”...
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Tue, October 23, 2012
Amy Laskowske, NWHN Intern
Last Thursday, October 18th, the NWHN staff and a room full of passionate women’s health activist, celebrated the life and legacy of one of the NWHN founding members, Barbara Seaman. In Barbara’s honor, two women, Aquene Freechild, Senior Organizer of the Constitutional Amendment Campaign at Public Citizen, and Inca Mohamed, an Associate Consultant at the...
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Tue, October 16, 2012
Chelsea Affleck, NWHN Intern
Women. Womyn! I’d like to think that women’s rights would be a major concern and area of contest in this year’s presidential election, but as The Atlantic pointed out, neither presidential candidate even said the word "women" in the first debate. Looking back on this last year we’ve seen multiple threats to women’s rights and...
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Fri, October 12, 2012
Shadia J Mansour, NWHN Intern
Every morning here at the Network us interns browse through various news sources for the latest in women’s health news to update our followers on Twitter and Facebook. One morning I stumbled upon a highly covered story that left me a bit angry – harsh criticisms on Lady Gaga’s recent 30 pound weight gain and distorted pictures to illustrate were found...
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Wed, October 03, 2012
Jonathan Raymond, special guest blogger
As many NWHN members already know, the NWHN has long been critical of the efforts by certain researchers to discredit the now famed Women’s Health Initiative (WHI) clinical trial results, which showed that the most popular forms of HT (Premarin and Prempro) did not prevent heart disease in healthy menopausal women and raised the risk of stroke, blood clots, and...
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Tue, October 02, 2012
Amy Laskowske, NWHN Intern
There are many powerful women that have paved the way to protect the lives of women and Dr. Frances Kelsey is no exception. Here at the Network we know how important it is to ensure that women have complete and accurate information about products and services marketed to them, and we strengthen the public protections against such threats. Dr. Frances Kelsey exemplified...
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Tue, September 25, 2012
Chelsea Affleck, NWHN Intern
Ladies, did you know that “approximately 20 billion pads, tampons and applicators are sent to North American landfills annually”!? You’re probably thinking to yourself, ‘well yes, that’s bad, but what can I do about it, I need these products to control my flow!’ And this in when I introduce the DivaCup! If I could add...
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Wed, September 12, 2012
Amy Laskowske, NWHN Intern
Do you have issues you care about this election season? Issues that go beyond the opinion of the suit and tie, clean-cut politician promising them? Of course you do! Understanding that the political arena is messy, it’s easy to underestimate the importance of your vote. Historically, voters between the ages of 18-24 have had the lowest voter...
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Tue, August 28, 2012
Amy Laskowske- NWHN Intern
School is back in session (give or take a week or two). Friends, roommates, classmates, professors, and all the random acquaintances in between are back on campus and raring to learn and socialize of course! But not all is well in the world of campus safety… more specifically, in terms of protecting women with the Violence Against Women Act (VAWA). ...
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Wed, August 15, 2012
Amy Allina, NWHN's Program Director
Introduction: Two tactics, each bad in its own right, pave the way for exclusion of abortion from the ACA.
Rosie Jimenez, a single mother and a poor Chicana, was the first woman known to have died from an unsafe abortion after Congress cut off funding for abortion care for women enrolled in Medicaid. Her picture has long been put forward as the face of the damage caused by...
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