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Monthly Archives: December 2012
Some Doctors Use Risky Drug, Aiming to Shape Girls’ Genitals and Behaviors
by Alice Dreger Dr. Mark Sloan, a pediatrician based in northern California, has written a very helpful overview of a controversial fetal engineering … More
Our Bodies Ourselves Goes to Nepal: Women’s Health Activists Discuss Cross-Border Surrogacy
In early October, I had the honor of co-leading a workshop in Kathmandu on the growing popularity of cross-border surrogacy arrangements with two … More
From Prevention to Palliative Care: Changing the Face of HIV/AIDS Outreach in Rural Nigeria
By Eyitemi Mogbeyiteren In 2011, three members of our outreach team were kidnapped in the Delta State of Nigeria. We were held captive … More
The Benefits and Harms of Routine Mammograms
The topic of routine screening mammography has become extremely controversial in recent years, especially following publication of a 2009 evidence review and subsequent … More
Do Screening Mammograms Do More Harm Than Good?
A sweeping U.S. study published on Nov. 22, 2012 in the New England Journal of Medicine shows that mammograms have done surprisingly little … More
Lies Straight From the Pit of Hell and Other Comments on Biology and Women’s Health
"All that stuff I was taught about evolution and embryology and the Big Bang Theory ... all that is lies straight from the … More
PBS American Voices: Our Bodies, Ourselves and the History of the Women’s Health Movement
Watch American Voices: Our Bodies Ourselves on PBS. See more from Need To Know. The most recent episode of the PBS news show … More
Judy Norsigian on PBS “Need to Know”: Women’s Health in Texas
As attacks on women’s access to reproductive health care continue, some states are slashing their budgets for family planning clinics. The PBS news … More
Pros and Cons of Making the Birth Control Pill Available Without a Prescription
This month, the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists released a statement calling for oral contraceptives to be sold over-the-counter, no longer requiring … More