Women's Health Activist articles from March 2007

Women's Health Activist archives from March 2007

Focus on lesbian health.
March 1, 2007... A YOUNG WOMAN GOES TO A FLORIDA DOCTOR SEEKING TREATMENT for a bad cough, she leaves with a prescription for Bible scriptures toffee her from homosexuality. (1) A New Hampshire dentist refuses treat to a woman because she listed her female...

Listening to women's voices, learning how to go forward.(Mautner Project)
March 1, 2007... We're very excited to share with our readers this month's cover story, which is an inspiring account of how a group of women have been able to make change in the health care system. We invited the Mautner Project for Lesbians to submit this...

Health care reform--a woman's issue.
March 1, 2007... Dissatisfaction with the cost and quality of the health care available in the United States is increasing. With the Democratic take-over of Congress in the November elections, there is new interest in changing the health care system, but little...

NIH halts neonatal herpes session after protest.(National Institutes of Health)
March 1, 2007... The National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) abruptly cancelled a conference on neonatal herpes aimed at writing clinical practice guidelines shortly after a coalition of influential physicians and consumer groups protested...

Young feminists: the mispronunciation of my name.
March 1, 2007... I was born in Durham, NC. Home of really good barbeque, a powerful tobacco lobby, and one of the biggest college basketball rivalries in the nation. When I was born, the hospital nurses were confronted by my unusual name ("Miriam" didn't even...

There is little or no benefit apparent to the practice of coached pushing during the second stage of labor.(WOMEN'S HEALTH SNAPSHOTS)(Brief article)
March 1, 2007... There is little or no benefit apparent to the practice of coached pushing during the second stage of labor. This method, in which a childbearing woman is instructed to pull back her legs, tuck in her chin, hold her breath and push during a...

In the 1970s diethylstilbestrol (DES), an estrogen prescribed to pregnant women from the 1930s to the '70s to prevent miscarriage, was found to increase the risk of vaginal cancers in the women's daughters.(WOMEN'S HEALTH SNAPSHOTS)(Brief article)
March 1, 2007... In the 1970s diethylstilbestrol (DES), an estrogen prescribed to pregnant women from the 1930s to the '70s to prevent miscarriage, was found to increase the risk of vaginal cancers in the women's daughters. A long-term study recently found that...

Women have complained that the Pill has a negative effect on their sex drive, and now researchers think they know why.(WOMEN'S HEALTH SNAPSHOTS)(Brief article)
March 1, 2007... Women have complained that the Pill has a negative effect on their sex drive, and now researchers think they know why. A study examined blood samples from past users of the Pill and women who have not used the Pill. Six months after women stop...

Tribute gifts to NWHN: a thoughtful way to commemorate someone special.
March 1, 2007... IN HONOR OF Amy Allina Cheri Pies Jessie Singer Banwer Frances Schneider Liau The Gerry Beaney Family Janet Drake & Tom Hal Carol D. Benedict Laura Benedict Ruth Brown's 70th Birthday Myrna...

Cervical cancer vaccines in context.(Prescription for Change)
March 1, 2007... In Washington D.C., in the 1970s, I volunteered at a Latino health fair that offered various health screenings, including Pap smears to look for precancerous cells. When the results came back. about one of four of the Paps was abnormal. An...

G-Spot.(Health Coverage Coalition for the Uninsured)(Brief article)
March 1, 2007... An unlikely collaboration of physician, insurance, pharmaceutical, hospital, and consumer organizations have pledged to increase insurance coverage to millions of under- and un-insured Americans. The group, formally known as the Health Coverage...

Sore spot.(health insurance plans)(contraceptive services )
March 1, 2007... Underwriting guidelines of Blue Shield of CA, PacifiCare Health Systems Inc., and Health Net Inc. prevent certain people from purchasing individual health insurance plans. According to underwriting guidelines, an insurer may refuse to sell...