Women's Health Activist articles from March 2004

Women's Health Activist archives from March 2004

Women's health in the global south: three views.
March 1, 2004... IN LIGHT OF NWHN's GOAL of furthering the establishment of universal health care, we asked women's health activists around the world to share how health care is delivered in their countries. Following are excerpted responses of New Zealand's...

The political will to change.(universal health care)(Editorial)
March 1, 2004... Last summer I had the opportunity' to spend several days with a small group of people helping the National Breast Cancer Coalition envision a future without breast cancer. All of us in the meeting were adamant about the necessity of ensuring...

Emergency contraceptives in India: beyond the magic bullet.
March 1, 2004... Last December, an advisory committee of the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) voted overwhelmingly in favor of making Plan B, the emergency contraceptive pill, available without a prescription. But in February, the FDA requested an additional...

Worlds apart: for seven weeks this winter, I was an outsider looking in on American government and society.(young Feminists)
March 1, 2004... I had left the Australian summer to intern with NWHN and spend time with my sister, and from the minute I stepped off the plane I found myself constantly (and unconsciously) comparing everything. Food portions? Very big! Cars? Even bigger!...

Cover the uninsured week: May 10-16.
March 1, 2004... Nearly 44 million Americans live without health coverage, including 8.5 million children. From May 10-16, NWHN and some 800 other national and local organizations, along with thousands of individual Americans, will work together to make his...

Low-risk women giving birth in a free-standing birthing center or a hospital are equally likely to eexperience safe outcomes for both themselves and their babies.(Women's Health Snapshots)(Brief Article)
March 1, 2004... Low-risk women giving birth in a free-standing birthing center or a hospital are equally likely to experience safe outcomes for both themselves and their babies. Researchers from the Birth Place Research Department in San Diego examined 1,808...

Having access to previous mammogram slides significantly reduces the chance of obtaining a false positive reading.(Women's Health Snapshots)(Brief Article)
March 1, 2004... Having access to previous mammogram slides significantly reduces the chance of obtaining a false positive reading. Researchers from the Center for Health Care Policy and Research examined the medical records of 5,000 women who had mammograms at...

Latin mothers experience greater pregnancy and birthing complications than do white non-Hispanic women.(Women's Health Snapshots)(Brief Article)
March 1, 2004... Latin mothers experience greater pregnancy and birthing complications than do white non-Hispanic women. Researchers with the UCLA Center for the Study of Latino Health and Culture examined California birth data from 2002 and found that Latina...

Menopause's milder side: the well-known Canadian anthropologist on Japanese women, cultural nuances and the eastward creep of the western medical model.(Questions For Dr. Margaret Lock)(Interview)
March 1, 2004... Women's Health Activist: Your work studying women in Japan in 1983 and 1984 was some of the first to document that women's experiences of the physical effects of menopause are not the same everywhere. Among your most striking findings was that...

Board of directors election.(Special Pull-Out Section)
March 1, 2004... 2004 National Women's Health Network Election Dear NWHN Member, An important aspect of membership in NWHN is the membership's role in choosing the leaders of the organization NWHN is governed by a 14-person Board of Directors. Every...

Preventing the preventable: obstetric fistula in the developing world.
March 1, 2004... Obstetric fistula occurs when prolonged labor causes the baby's head to press against the tissue surrounding the mother's vaginal wall. This cuts off blood supply to the tissue, causes the tissue to rot away and leaves a hole between the...

Warning signs on the road to weight loss.(Prescription For Change)
March 1, 2004... Now that the FDA has banned ephedra in over-the-counter products, companies are touting an array of other herbs and nonherbal products claimed to speed weight loss. Are herbal weight-loss products safer than drugs? Not necessarily. Weight-loss...

Tired of flowers on Mother's Day???
March 1, 2004... Give the mom, grandma, sister, aunt in your life a gift membership to NWHN or make a donation in her honor. NWHN will mail her a special card announcing your wonderful tribute. It's a terrific way to show the women in your life that you care...

G-spot.(Health care industry)(Brief Article)
March 1, 2004... In December, New Mexico altered its Medicaid guidelines to include coverage of medical abortion, making it the 17th state in which Medicaid covers abortion under any circumstance. Now for the other 33! Durex Condoms has halted production of...

Sore spot.(health products)(Brief Article)
March 1, 2004... Joanne Webb, a sales associate for a company that uses Tupperware-style marketing to sell sex toys to women, was arrested in Burleson, Texas, on obscenity charges. Webb's lawyer said Webb was arrested not because she sold the toys but because...