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By Cynthia Pearson

If you’re like me, you’re not happy with what you’re hearing about Congress these days. Of course, I’m writing this column a few weeks before you will be reading it, and I don’t have a crystal ball, but I’m sure that there are at least a couple of things the 112th Congress (which began on January 5, 2011) is doing that are upsetting to those of us who care about women’s health.

By Jill Battalen

On November 3rd, over 100 enthusiastic guests gathered at the NWHN’s Fall Benefit held at Washington, DC’s Studio Theatre.  The speaker was author Barbara Ehrenreich, and the Third Annual NWHN Barbara Seaman Awards for Activism in Women’s Health were presented to honorees Anne Kasper and Miriam Zoila Pérez. Guests also viewed the premiere of the Network’s new video. Here are Barbara Ehrenreich’s comments:

By: Charlea T. Massion, MD & Adriane Fugh-Berman MD

Whose silly idea was it to start X-raying people along with the baggage at airports?  Most of the media coverage of airport security scanners has focused on privacy issues, but we’re far more concerned about possible health risk: frequent flyers may be racking up increased cancer risk along with their miles, because of radiation exposure.

By Amy Allina

By Mark Hathaway, MD, MPH

By Iliana Kiourkas

By Jane Zones, Ph.D.

For  40 years, control over one’s body has been a fundamental principle of the women’s health movement. We have fought and won many battles to preserve our right to make decisions about our own health and well-being. But over the last two decades, various corporations and institutions have secured patent protection on about 20 percent of the approximately 30,000 genes that make up the human genome.

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