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About YOUR Health: Emergency Contraception
May/June 2002
Questions and Answers from the NWHN Women's Health Information Clearinghouse
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Mon, May 06, 2002 Alzheimer's Disease, Menopause and Hormones: Cutting Through the Confusion
March/April 2002
By Vicki Meyer, Ph.D.
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Mon, March 04, 2002 Women's Health Snapshots: UTIs
March/April 2002
A study at the University of Oulu in Finland provides further evidence that cranberry juice can reduce the incidence of urinary tract infections (UTIs). Researchers randomized 150 women with a history of recurrent UTIs into three groups. One group drank 50 ml of cranberry juice daily for six months; one group drank a lactobacillus drink daily for one year and a third group drank neither.
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Mon, March 04, 2002 Weight and Health: Analyzing the Surgeon General's 'Call to Action'
March/April 2002
By Lynn McAfee and Pat Lyons
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Mon, March 04, 2002 Orgasms for Sale: Profit, Politics and Women's Sexual Satisfaction
March/April 2002
By Amy Allina
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Mon, March 04, 2002 About YOUR Health: Yeast Infection
March/April 2002
Questions and Answers from the NWHN Women's Health Information Clearinghouse
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Mon, March 04, 2002 Get "The Truth" About Hormone Replacement Therapy
March/April 2002
The Truth About Hormone Replacement Therapy: How to Break Free from the Medical Myths of Menopause
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Mon, January 07, 2002 About YOUR Health: Abortion & Breast Cancer
January/February 2002
Questions and Answers from the NWHN Women's Health Information Clearinghouse
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Mon, January 07, 2002 Cash for Birth Control: Discriminatory, Unethical, Ineffective and Bad Public Policy
January/February 2002
By Amy Allina
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Mon, January 07, 2002 Domestic Violence: A Primary Care Issue for Rural Women
January/February 2002
By Linda Chamberlain, Ph.D.
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Mon, January 07, 2002 Letter to the Editor: Tough Questions about Breast Cancer
January/February 2002
Letter to the Editor
Re: Tough Questions About Breast Cancer, September/October 2001
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Mon, January 07, 2002 NWHN Members Asked to Participate in Health Information Study
January/February 2002
NWHN Members Asked to Participate in Health Information Study
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Mon, January 07, 2002 Women's Health Snapshots: Physical Activity and Cognitive Decline
January/February 2002
Women’s Health Snapshots
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Mon, January 07, 2002 Women’s Health Snapshots: Accutane
November/December 2001
Despite a well-known link between Accutane and devastating birth defects, some women still become pregnant while taking the acne drug, according to the Centers for Disease Control. Between 1982 and 2000, the FDA received reports of more than 2,000 U.S. pregnancies that were exposed to Accutane. Women are advised to have two negative pregnancy tests before taking Accutane, and then to use two forms of birth control and take monthly pregnancy tests while on the drug, but some do not follow these recommendations.
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Mon, November 05, 2001 What Is Postpartum Depression?
November/December 2001
By Leslie W. Tarn
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Mon, November 05, 2001 Questions and Answers from the NWHN Women’s Health Information Clearinghouse: Homebirths
November/December 2001
Q. I am pregnant and considering having a homebirth. Could you tell me more about homebirth in general?
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Mon, November 05, 2001 Perimenopause: an Invented "Disease"
November/December 2001
By Tony Scialli and Adriane Fugh-Bennan
The latest media event is perimenopause, yet another time in a woman's life when the characteristics of her menstrual cycle give her a chance to be considered abnormal. Menopause itself is an arbitrarily defined non-event useful primarily for targeting a group of women for pharmaceutical marketing. Perimenopause increases both the number of women eligible for unnecessary tests and treatment, and the duration of their eligibility for special attention from pharmaceutical companies.
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Mon, November 05, 2001 Exploring Collaboration in California
November/December 2001
Do you know of organizations in California that might be interested in collaborating with the National Women’s Health Network?
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Mon, November 05, 2001 Women’s Health Snapshots: Smoking
September/October 2001
Women may not be aware of their susceptibility to smoking-related health risks. Researchers at Yale University surveyed 256 women who worked in a Connecticut hospital; respondents represented a “wide span” of socioeconomic and educational backgrounds.
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Mon, September 03, 2001 Tough Questions About Breast Cancer
September/October 2001
Introduction by Cindy Pearson
October is Breast Cancer Awareness Month. Have you heard about it yet? Over the last 10 years, public awareness of breast cancer has skyrocketed, due as much to the tireless efforts of lay activists as to those of companies targeting women concerned about or already diagnosed with the disease. These days, almost unheard of for an adult woman to make it through the month of October without seeing at least one, if not many, messages about breast cancer and breast "health."
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Mon, September 03, 2001 