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What is the Fuss about Comparative Effectiveness Research?
March/April 2010
By Rachel Walden
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Mon, March 01, 2010 Sore Spots and G-Spots
March/April 2010
SORES SPOTS
For $29.95, you can “put the pink back in your genitals.” My New Pink Button is a “genital cosmetic colorant” or, as we like to call it, vagina make-up. It will give your vaginal lips a more “youthful glow”, but only for a 48-72-hour time period. The product comes in four different colors, one of which was formulated for women of color. We applaud the diversity effort, but love our vaginal lips as they are. We’ll add this one to the list of products aiming to “fix” what is not broken.
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Mon, March 01, 2010 Connecting National Debates on Access to Health Care and the Economic Crisis: A Feminist Perspective
March/April 2010
By Stephanie Rytilahti
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Mon, March 01, 2010 Vulvagraphics: The New View Campaign’s Art Show Displays the Beauty and Diversity of Vulvas!
March/April 2010
By Natalie Peart
Fat is a Feminist Issue and a Health Issue — How Can Women’s Health Advocates Help?
March/April 2010
By Ninia Baehr, RN
I ask myself this question every day. As a public health professional, I manage a nutrition and physical activity program to prevent obesity in Montana. As a feminist, I desire women’s freedom from oppression – including what author Kim Chernin called the “tyranny of slenderness.”
Building on what we can get to get to what we really want
March/April 2010
by Cindy Pearson
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Mon, March 01, 2010 Adisa Douglas & Tiffany Reed Receive the Second Annual NWHN Barbara Seaman Award for Activism in Women's Health
January/February 2010
By Jill Battalen
U.S. Playing Reproductive Roulette with Dangerous Chemicals
January/February 2010
By Reece Rushing
Reproductive health in the United States is declining as human exposure to dangerous chemicals is rising. Fertility problems, miscarriages, pre-term births, and birth defects are all up. Meanwhile, the number of chemicals registered for commercial use now stands at 80,000 — a 30 percent increase since 1979.
Mammography News: You Heard It Here First … and It’s Still an Outrage!
January/February 2010
By Cynthia Pearson
Young Feminists -- A Community-Based Approach to Improving Health
January/February 2010
By Sara Lake
Snapshots
January/February 2010
Age, race, region and insurance status play a large role in the type of hysterectomy that women receive. Researchers used records from the 2005 Nationwide Inpatient Sample, which collects patient discharge data from approximately 90% of U.S. hospitals, to determine rates of laparoscopic vs. vaginal and abdominal hysterectomy. Laparoscopic techniques are more expensive than abdominal hysterectomies, but offer faster recovery, less blood loss, fewer infections, and require shorter hospital stays.
Prescription for Change -- The Mammogram Industry: Wolves in Pink Wool
January/February 2010
By Charlea T. Massion, M.D. & Adriane Fugh-Berman, M.D.
Thanks to Our 2009 Fall Reception Sponsors
January/February 2010
Leader $5000+
Representative Maxine Grad
Sally Rynne
Watchdog $2,500+
Lisa Rarick, M.D.
Innovator $1000+
Philip Corfman & Harriet Presser
Barbara Ehrenreich
Adriane Fugh- Berman
Malcolm Jones
Joanne Marqusee
NWHN Board of Directors
Cynthia Pearson
Lyle Pearson Public Welfare Foundation
Roger Telschow & Ecoprint*
Venable, LLP
If You Are Not at the Table, You Are on the Menu — SisterSong: Women of Color Mobilize for Reproductive Justice
SisterSong: Women of Color Mobilize for Reproductive Justice
By Nekose Wills
Women’s Health is Environmental Health: Avoiding Common Toxic Exposures
November/December 2009
By Lisa Nagy, MD
Shots for Osteoporosis — Convenient, Expensive, & Possibly Dangerous
November/December 2009
By Cindy Pearson
