The most striking factor of the Aboriginal Tent Embassy protests was the stark difference between reports of the events and the reality, writes Tracker editor Amy McQuire. Read more on the blog…
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Posted on February 3, 2012 | Filed under Womens Health News | Permalink
Every year, one in three womens` deaths are caused by heart disease. It`s the number one killer of mothers, sisters and friends in our country. On Friday, many will be wearing red in support of the fight against heart disease.
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Posted on February 3, 2012 | Filed under Womens Health News | Permalink
“Take the kinks out of your mind,” intoned Marcus Garvey, founder of the Universal Negro Improvement Association (UNIA), “instead of out of your hair.” As founder of the Universal Negro Improvement Association (UNIA), Garvey refused advertisements for products to…
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‘Skin Deep’ In More Ways Than One
Posted on February 2, 2012 | Filed under Womens Health News | Permalink
Obama picked up the phone to personally break the news to two influential Catholic leaders.
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Catholics cross with Obama
Posted on February 2, 2012 | Filed under Womens Health News | Permalink
BELMONT, CA– – BlogHer, Inc ., the premium cross-platform media network and publisher for women, announced today that the BlogHer Network's reach grew by 54 percent since June 2011, making the company …
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BlogHer, Inc. Joins Top Women's Community Lifestyle and Food Networks as BlogHer's Audience of Moms Grows by 33 Percent
Posted on February 1, 2012 | Filed under Womens Health News | Permalink
Pfizer is recalling certain packs of oral contraceptives (the pill). From the FDA:
Pfizer Inc. announced today that it has voluntarily recalled 14 lots of Lo/Ovral®-28 (norgestrel and ethinyl estradiol) Tablets and 14 lots of Norgestrel and Ethinyl Estradiol Tablets (generic) for customers in the U.S. market. An investigation by Pfizer found that some blister packs may contain an inexact count of inert or active ingredient tablets and that the tablets may be out of sequence. The cause was identified and corrected immediately.
What this means is that you could be getting placebo pills on days when you’re supposed to be getting real hormones, and this could mean you’re at risk of getting pregnant. Women with the affected pills should use non-hormonal, barrier methods (like condoms) starting now. You’re also asked to return the pack to your pharmacy.
See the full list of affected pills.
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Posted on February 1, 2012 | Filed under Womens Health News | Permalink
05-08-2011 09:39 This week Chrissy Schwen examines conservative opposition to women’s health, Fox News’ terrible coverage of the default crisis negotiations, and children’s programming pointing out the reality of climate change to Fox News.
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The Big Picture: August 5, 2011 – Video
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05-12-2011 08:55 Professor Jayati Ghosh (Jawaharlal Nehru University) delivered the 2011 UCL Lancet Lecture: ‘Economic growth and women’s health outcomes’. One of the most surprising features of the recent rapid income growth in emerging economies is how it has not been associated with significant improvements in women’s health outcomes. Professor Ghosh uses indicators (such as the infant mortality rate, the maternal mortality rate and the child sex ratio) to explore the specific experience of India over the past two decades. Further info: Photos by Viktor Knops: www.flickr.com
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UCL Lancet Lecture 2011: Prof Jayati Ghosh on economic growth
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06-09-2011 07:30 Sudden infant death syndrome (SIDS) is a devastating occurrence, but now there is new information that may help save babies’ lives. I met with Dr. Elizabeth Killebrew, an obstetrician and gynecologist, to learn more about SIDS and how to prevent this condition.
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How can mothers help prevent SIDS? – Video
Posted on February 1, 2012 | Filed under Womens Health News | Permalink
In our Facebook Story of the Day for January 30, we're talking about the effects of caffeine on woman and their estrogen levels.
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Caffeine is affecting women in a whole new way
Posted on January 30, 2012 | Filed under Womens Health News | Permalink
In breaching her commitment to Andrew Wilkie, Julia Gillard has made it even less likely voters will trust her again. Read more on the blog…
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Posted on January 30, 2012 | Filed under Womens Health News | Permalink
Recently, TN state rep Richard Floyd declared he would “stomp” any transgender woman who happened to be around him and his family. This past week, he complained mightily about the reaction he’s getting, and declared,
I never said anything about violence. I said what I would do personally if my family was involved, and I meant every single word of it….Do I regret saying it? No, I don’t regret saying it. Would I do it? Yes I would.
No, you don’t get to threaten to “stomp” a segment of your constituency just for being around, then claim you “never said anything about violence.” You did, on the record, to a reporter. And then you immediately reiterated that you would in fact attempt violence and don’t regret saying so.
I’m also extremely bothered by the silence from other politicians on this matter. I sent a message to leadership folks in *both* parties encouraging them to denounce his statements, which read in part:
It should not be controversial in the least that politicians should expect rebuke when threatening physical violence against our citizens simply for existing. When an elected state Representative declares publicly his plans for violently attacking certain types of Tennessee residents because of his own discomfort with how they are, that should be an obvious target for disapproval, from either side of the aisle… all people deserve to be free of threats of violence from the people who are expected to represent them.
Here’s who hasn’t bothered to respond:
That would be everybody who received the message in the first place.
I see that someone has also put a petition online asking that Floyd resign.
Meanwhile, state senator and misogynist-in-chief Stacey Campfield (R) claimed that it’s “virtually — impossible to contract AIDS through heterosexual sex” (among other misinformation he spread while speaking on the topic).
Let me be clear: this is absolutely, demonstrably false. In our own state, heterosexual transmission is thought to account for nearly a quarter of AIDS cases, and if you look at women living with HIV/AIDS specifically, it accounts for 65% of cases among white women and 74% of cases among black women. While men having sex with men have been disproportionately affected by HIV/AIDS, transmission via men and women having sex is a significant and growing category, one that puts women and especially non-white at risk when we ignore it. Or, as B notes, “Oh, I See. ‘You’ Doesn’t Include Women.”
Campfield has been called on it by local public health and AIDS education folks – people who know HIV/AIDS and know the stats.
In the face of being corrected by experts, Campfield responded: “I didn’t say I was a gay/AIDS historian. I didn’t say I know the facts backwards and forwards I just said what I’ve heard and the facts back me up.”
Well, actually the facts don’t back him up. That’s the whole problem.
Send ‘em a letter:
Campfield’s contact info
Floyd’s contact info
In other state issues, I’ve been mulling over how to prevent a bill barring telemedicine for abortion from taking effect early, and then how to overturn the already-passed law doing this. See my Blog for Choice Day post for background and why I think this law is a bad idea. Are any of you readers part of medical, nursing, reproductive health, telemedicine, informatics, or other health or technology organizations (either in Tennessee or nationally) that might sign on to a letter framing it as an inappropriately stifling technological innovations in healthcare delivery and inappropriately interfering with clinical practice?
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Posted on January 29, 2012 | Filed under Womens Health News | Permalink
24-01-2012 14:25 Weight Gain? Fatigue? Thinning Hair? Trouble Sleeping? All are symptoms of an underactive THYROID. Recharge Your Thyroid with Iodine.Safe
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Weight Gain? Fatigue? Thinning Hair? Recharge Your Thyroid With Iodine Plus 2 – Video
Posted on January 27, 2012 | Filed under Womens Health News | Permalink
MARATHON — Aspirus Womens Health will offer free breast exams and mammograms to women who qualify Feb. 9.
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Aspirus Marathon Clinic offers free mammograms
Posted on January 23, 2012 | Filed under Womens Health News | Permalink
01-12-2011 16:17 www.NHS3.org NBC NIghtly News with Tom Brokaw talk about the groundbreaking findings that were found thanks to the Nurses’ Health Study. Nurses’ Health Study is growing! We’re enrolling a 3rd group, learn more at www.NHS3.org.
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Posted on January 23, 2012 | Filed under Womens Health News | Permalink
The theme for this year’s Blog for Choice Day is: “What will you do to help elect pro-choice candidates in 2012?”
I have to confess, I’m extremely bad about helping people get elected. I will write blog posts and letters to elected officials all day long, but have not historically been very active in either donating to candidates/causes or taking actions like canvassing on their behalf. This year, taking in-person action might be even more difficult due to living car-free, but I’m alarmed enough by the apparent uptick in anti-choice legislative activity that I think I need to do better and more.
I’m also going to need to focus some of that attention more specifically at the local level. It seems somewhat easier to get the word out about national threats, and there’s a bigger pool of people who can raise objections. So many serious effects on choice happen at the state level, though. This is where waiting periods, forced ultrasounds, forced delivery of medically inaccurate warnings, and other unnecessary restrictions happen.
In my own state of Tennessee, a bills is in a subcommittee to require any abortions past “viability” to occur in a hospital. There’s also a bill to move up the effective date of a law that would forbid the use of telemedicine for abortion. An obvious question is “how do you do surgery without your hands on a patient?” The answer is that this is already being researched and done for other surgeries.
But what we’re really talking about for abortion right now is something more like having a videoconference, with a patient who is getting a medication abortion, and using that technology to talk to them about their wishes and consent, how to properly take the medicine, and any potential complications to watch out for. It’s something a doctor or nurse practitioner can do from any connected location, potentially having other nurses, medical students, etc. do any needed vital sign checking and form-signing in person. It’s something that’s considered very safe.
It’s something that could really help women in rural/remote locations, and across states with few abortion providers, by increasing the geographic range a provider might be able to reach. In some states, a single provider has been known to fly in from out of state one day a week; telemedicine could seriously relieve this logistical problem and relieve provider shortages for the cases in which medication abortion is appropriate and desired.
And the state legislature is the place to prevent it, if you don’t want providers using new technologies to provide women with increased access to legal medical care.
The bill to forbid telemedicine for abortion in Tennessee passed last year. I pay attention to these things, and I’m pretty sure I missed it. And now they’re trying to make it take effect this year instead of next year.
They’re making it illegal for your physician, if he or she thinks it’s appropriate, to advise you on taking a pill via a videoconference. Where you can talk to and see one another, and your provider can use her/his judgment about your care while talking with you. And it’s only abortion that is being targeted; nobody is trying to forbid providers from delivering other legal care in this way.
So, Tennessee, can we start here? Let’s make sure the bill to move up this interference doesn’t pass, and then we can see what we can do about getting rid of the original, and supporting in real ways politicians who stand against such nonsense.
See my Blog for Choice day posts going back to 2007, and NARAL’s list of participating blogs for this year.
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Posted on January 22, 2012 | Filed under Womens Health News | Permalink
HHS Affirms Contraception as Covered Preventive Service – I’m glad I didn’t have to take back this post, although the Plan B bullshit was probably more responsible than a successful appeal to reason.
Participate in the Virtual March for Trust Women Week – Think reproductive rights are an important human right? Sign on to the virtual march to send a pro-choice message. More than 9,000 people already have.
Webinar: New Report on Breast Cancer and the Environment – Breast Cancer Action is holding a couple of webinars next week to talk about the IOM’s recent report on breast cancer and the environment.
See also Ayesha and Judy’s Can We Choose to Move Forward on Reproductive Justice? And How? and get details from Christine on how you can help a midwife get to Haiti to help with obstetric emergency preparedness – an interview with the midwife is provided.
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Posted on January 22, 2012 | Filed under Womens Health News | Permalink
12-10-2011 11:36 Transcript by www.newsy.com BY ORKIDE IZCI ANCHOR JIM FLINK Vitamins are a daily routine for many people. But a new study says that multi-vitamins may actually increase the risk of death in some older women.
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Report- Taking Too Many Vitamins Could Be Deadly – Video
Posted on January 21, 2012 | Filed under Womens Health News | Permalink
If you support Australian values such as equality, fairness and mateship, whether you’re straight, gay or anything else, take along a little rainbow flag and wave it for the cameras, writes Doug Pollard, a broadcaster and journalist in Melbourne. Read more on the blog…
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Rainbow flags rule out love match with Margaret Court
Posted on January 20, 2012 | Filed under Womens Health News | Permalink
23-11-2011 08:05 This is the VOA Special English Health Report , from voaspecialenglish.com | http Heart disease is the world’s leading cause of death.
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Knowing Women’s Risk of Heart Disease – Video
Posted on January 20, 2012 | Filed under Womens Health News | Permalink
15-05-2011 22:28 Subscribe for daily health news. Like/Dislike, Favorite, Comment, Embed on Blog, Facebook Share, and Tweet this video. Get the word out on this video
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Extreme High Heels: How High Is Too High? [ABC: 5-15-2011] – Video
Posted on January 16, 2012 | Filed under Womens Health News | Permalink
Tennessee State Representative Richard Floyd has introduced a bill that would make it a crime for people to be in a sex-specific bathroom or dressing room (i.e., one designated for men or women) that doesn’t match the sex given on their birth certificate.
Tennessee does not allow transgender people to have their birth certificates changed, so if the bill were passed, there would actually be no legal bathrooms for transgender men and women to use in any state government building. (It’s unclear to me whether this might also apply to other public restrooms in non-governmental buildings)
Practical people have noted other problems with this bill. It would be impossible to enforce, because there is no chance we’re going to set up checks outside of restrooms. It could hypothetically criminalize parents who need to take a child into a restroom, other caregivers in similar situations, maintenance workers, and others.
But let’s be clear – mom taking her male-appearing son into a women’s restroom is not the target of this bill. Transgender men and women are, because of the small-minded bigotry of Floyd and others like him.
To make that point perfectly clear, Floyd said this, clearly illustrating his bullshit fears and hatred of transgender women:
I believe if I was standing at a dressing room and my wife or one of my daughters was in the dressing room and a man tried to go in there — I don’t care if he thinks he’s a woman and tries on clothes with them in there — I’d just try to stomp a mudhole in him and then stomp him dry.
You know, because transgender women are really all predators out to harm cis women, a belief Floyd emphasized by continuing, “Now if somebody thinks he’s a woman and he’s a man and wants to try on women’s clothes, let them him take them into the men’s bathroom or dressing room. Don’t ask me to adjust to their perverted way of thinking and put my family at risk.”
This is not a secret email remark made by Floyd. It’s not a comment he thought was off-the-record, between friends. This is what he said on-the-record, for public consumption.
So, Chattanooga, who are you going to run against this asshole this year? And if this nonsense is not quickly withdrawn or defeated, who wants to go pee in the “wrong” bathrooms in the state capitol building with me?
[Note: it looks like the Senate version of the bill has already been withdrawn after public reaction began; it could potentially be reintroduced by someone else, and Floyd's House bill remains. Here's Floyd's contact information if you'd like to let him know what you think of him and his bill.]
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Posted on January 13, 2012 | Filed under Womens Health News | Permalink
According to the results of a new study published in the January 2012 issue of the Journal of the American College of Surgeons, many early-stage breast cancer survivors lacked knowledge about their disease and were not meaningfully involved in treatment discussions or asked their preferences regarding the approach to treatment. As a result, the study’s investigators determined that there is a …
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Early-stage breast cancer patients lack knowledge; may not receive treatment they prefer
Posted on January 10, 2012 | Filed under Womens Health News | Permalink
15-04-2011 21:34 Infrared Sciences Corporation has developed a screening process, the Sentinel BreastScan, which employs digital infrared imaging to detect breast cancer with a high degree of accuracy and at a very early stage. The product is an adjunctive1 test that physicians use to screen for and isolate pre-cancerous and cancerous tumors. The company provides the systems to gynecologists, radiologists, medical oncologist, hospitals, third-party imaging centers, and women’s health centers for use as an adjunctive screening tool to mammography.
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Sentinel BreastScan in the News – FDA Approved Early Detection of Breast Cancer – Video
Posted on January 10, 2012 | Filed under Womens Health News | Permalink
18-03-2011 14:29 Calcium is important to bone health, but most people don’t get enough of it.
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Calcium Supplements: Can they raise a woman’s heart attack risk? | HealthWatchMD – Video
Posted on January 10, 2012 | Filed under Womens Health News | Permalink