Monday, April 30, 2007

The Demise of a Period in Women's History

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You feel like your body is stuffed with sand, and if you were to jump into a pool, you would no longer float. Still, everything in the snack...

Brains, brains, and more brains!

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Slate has an exciting week-long exploration on the latest developments and implications in neuroscience. William Saletan lists the five bi...

Sign on to the Microbicide Development Act of 2007

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Women and girls are the new face of HIV/AIDS worldwide. As of 2005, 17.3 million women aged 15 years and older were living with HIV – 48% of...

Sex Trafficking in the US of A and Abroad

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Sex trafficking has been seen as a human rights issue that primarily affects women and children and reflects the status of how these groups ...
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Thursday, April 26, 2007

Supreme Court Decision: Read it and Weep

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A very wise person suggested to me that the recent Supreme Court decision ( Gonzales v. Carhart ) demonstrates a disturbing trend: that the ...
Wednesday, April 25, 2007

Eat Until You're Beauti-Full

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Too tired to workout at the gym? Prefer big macs to salads at lunch? Jealous of the size 0 model on magazine covers? Well then trade your je...
Tuesday, April 24, 2007

Everything Conceivable - New Book

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From the dust jacket: Skyrocketing infertility rates and the accompanying explosion in reproductive technology are revolutionizing the Amer...

The Virginia Tech Tragedy and Mental Health

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Art Caplan writes a compelling column on MSNBC about how we need to fix a broken, abandoned and pathetic system of mental-health care: Broke...
Sunday, April 22, 2007

Rising Infant Mortality, Racial Disparities, and Access to Health Care

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In a disturbing report in the NY Times this morning, infant mortality rates have in the Southern United States have risen . For one of the ...
Friday, April 20, 2007

A Secret Government Database?

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Friend and colleague Roy Poses of the Healthcare Renewal Blog asked this question on an email listserve and gave my permission to re-post it...
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Thursday, April 19, 2007

Supreme Court Upholds Late-Term Abortion Ban

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My observation has been that if there is anything that approaches a consensus in the US regarding abortion, it is that a late-term abortion ...
Tuesday, April 17, 2007

The Blindness of the Abstinence Only Approach

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Our friend and colleague, Art Caplan, posts a great column in MSNBC today about the abstinence only approach doesn't work : "Is the...
Monday, April 16, 2007

Reining in the Organ Market

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In this opinion piece William Saletan documents the growing market of organ trafficking and offers a solution to reverse this troubling tren...
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World Bank figure accused of undermining health of women

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This article from the Guardian sounds like possible plot from Dan Brown novel: Leak prompts fear over World Bank Health Policies · Madagas...
Sunday, April 15, 2007

Week in Review...

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Some stories that have caught our interest over the past week: NYTimes: The Search for the Female Equivalent of Viagra -- Even in the most s...
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Wednesday, April 11, 2007

Texas Futile Care Law

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There is a case going on in Texas right now dealing with the Texas Futile Care Law. The bill, signed in 1999 by then Governor George W. Bush...
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Tuesday, April 10, 2007

The Left Testicle Would Have Been Right

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NOT JUST FOR WOMEN Most patients are nervous before undergoing a surgical procedure, however routine. High anxiety and the fear of unexpecte...

The Odds of Dying an Undignified Death: One in Five So They Say

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Did you ever stop to think how the last chapter in the book called Your Life may transpire? Are you fantasizing that your “final act” will b...
Monday, April 09, 2007

Happiness & Aging

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This is a little off topic, but I came across it and wanted to share with everyone: People with higher incomes today report greater happines...
Saturday, April 07, 2007

Emotionally Abandoned Alzheimer’s Patients

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I think Alzheimer’s disease is becoming a bigger concern for most people in this country. As the years go by, there seems to be more media o...