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Category Archives: Women’s Health
Cheerleading accounted for two-thirds of all catastrophic injuries among female high school and college athletes.
That’s a statistic from this WaPo article, entitled: “Rooting for Safety: Cheerleading Is Risky But Ill-Regulated.” Below are a couple of excerpts: … Concerns about cheerleading safety arise whenever a high-profile accident occurs. But alarm spiked again this summer when … Continue reading
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Sex Based Medicine
Great post here, below is a short excerpt: Now, Dr. Isis quite frequently blogs about being a girl, so a letter in this week’s Science entitled Flaunting the Feminine Side of Research Studies certainly caught the eye of the domestic … Continue reading
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“Exploiting People, Stereotypes Is Not Exactly Sexy”
That’s the title of this post at Jezebel, in which blogger Megan Carpentier writes fairly critically about a “charity porn” initiative to “Save African Orphans” that seems pretty appalling at every level. I’m a little uncomfortable with the tone of … Continue reading
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FGM and Asylum
Useful overview here.
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Patients v. Medical Students: A Provocative Discussion.
One of my favorite law profs sent me a link to a medical student discussion board, where a very long thread started off with this post: From some personal experience and hearing stories from others, there seems to be a … Continue reading
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Today is World AIDS Day
More information here.
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Kimberly Mutcherson, “Making Mommies: Law, Pre-Implantation Genetic Diagnosis, and the Complications of Pre-Motherhood”
The abstract: The article focuses on pre-implantation genetic diagnosis (“PGD”), a technology that allows health care providers and potential parents to screen embryos for a range of characteristics prior to implanting them in a woman’s uterus. Many potential parents use … Continue reading
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Cervical Cancer
I know there are concerns about Gardasil, the vaccine for HPV, and I’m not a medical professional so I can’t provide any sort of authoritative opinion about its safety or effectiveness. What I will tell you is this: My cousin … Continue reading
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The Importance of Careful Reading
The headline says: Study: Vitamin C or E pills do not prevent cancer But the first line of the article says: Vitamin C or E pills do not help prevent cancer in men, concludes the same big study that last … Continue reading
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High Heels As Business Opportunity For Pain Killer Vendor?
Via.
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Time Periods: a history of menstrual products
Here.
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Sheila Jeffreys, “The Industrial Vagina: The political economy of the global sex trade”
From the publisher’s website: The industrialization of prostitution and the sex trade has created a multibillion-dollar global market, involving millions of women, that makes a substantial contribution to national and global economies. The Industrial Vagina examines how prostitution and other … Continue reading
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Women Pay A Lot More Than Men For Health Insurance, Even When Childbirth Isn’t Covered.
NYT story here. Below are a couple of short excerpts: … Insurers say they have a sound reason for charging different premiums: Women ages 19 to 55 tend to cost more than men because they typically use more health care, … Continue reading
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New Study Documents Sharp Rise in Pregnancy Discrimination Complaints, Driven by Discrimination Against Women of Color
From The National Partnership for Women & Families: In 2007, working women in the United States filed 65 percent more complaints of pregnancy discrimination with the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) than they filed in 1992. A sampling of these … Continue reading
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Study finds sexual trauma afflicts 15 percent of U.S. veterans
From Reuters: Nearly 15 percent of Iraq and Afghanistan veterans seeking medical care from the U.S. Veterans Affairs Department have suffered sexual trauma, from harassment to rape, researchers reported on Tuesday. … … Most veterans who were affected were women, … Continue reading
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“U.S. suicide rates appear to be on the rise, driven mostly by middle-aged white women, researchers reported on Tuesday.”
Short article here.
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Against Mandatory Guardasil Vaccinations
Read:The State Can Violate Women’s Bodies if They Want to At WoC Phd.
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Scott on “Surrogacy and the Politics of Commodification”
Elizabeth Scott (Columbia) has posted to ssrn her article “Surrogacy and the Politics of Commodification.” Here is the abstract: This essay examines the changing social and political meaning of surrogacy contracts over the twenty years since this issue first attracted … Continue reading
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Racism in the ways HIV is linked to Africa
Explained here, at Diary of An Anxious Black Woman.
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Unity Day and A Deepening Financial Crisis
Today is Unity Day, celebrated since 1981 it is the first Monday in October and was intended to provide an opportunity for connection among advocates supporting victims of domestic violence. October is also Domestic Violence Awareness Month> (see the National … Continue reading
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IntLawGrrls is featuring a series on disability human rights.
Read it here.
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Studies Find Link Between Talcum Powder and Ovarian Cancer
The American Cancer Society reports: A case-control study published in 1997 of 313 women with ovarian cancer and 422 without this disease found that the women with cancer were more likely to have applied talcum powder to their external genital … Continue reading
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2008 World Stem Cell Summit in Madison, Wisconsin
This week stem cell scientists from across the globe are meeting at the University of Wisconsin at Madison to discuss a multitude of issues they face including the scientific, business, legal, ethical and regulatory issues these doctors, clinicians and researchers … Continue reading
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“Paradigm shifts and paying for sex”
Brilliant essay by S. M Berg, below is an excerpt … The old prostitution paradigm sees prostitution as a women’s problem and thusly suggests fixing women as the solution. Identifiers of the old paradigm that circles around prostituted women are: … Continue reading
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Yet Another Way Health Insurance Companies Are Messing With People
My friend W. is on prescription medication that she can only obtain refills for every 30 days, so on every thirtieth day she has to go to a pharmacy. Last Friday when she got there after work, she … Continue reading
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Hillary Rodham Clinton and Cecile Richards, “Blocking Care for Women”
NYT Op-Ed, reprinted below: Last month, the Bush administration launched the latest salvo in its eight-year campaign to undermine women’s rights and women’s health by placing ideology ahead of science: a proposed rule from the Department of Health and Human … Continue reading
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“Most teen girls still experience sexual harassment and sexism, according to new study”
From here: Nine of 10 teen girls report experiencing sexual harassment, and majorities also say they have received discouraging comments about their abilities in school and athletics, according to a new study that appears in the May/June issue of the … Continue reading
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“Score One for Disability Rights”
That’s the title of this post at Angry for a Reason, below is a short excerpt (but you should read the whole thing): On September 11th the Senate passed S. 3406, the ADA Amendments Act of 2008. This is a … Continue reading
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Sue Johanson on Sex
Here, via NPR. The shorter version: sex education is good; anal sex is risky.
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“A new report by the Poppy Project has found that there are over 921 brothels in London being advertised in newspapers with a “large and growing” number of young women who are trafficked as sex slaves.”
BBC story here. Via Jezebel. If you want to help trafficked people in this country, support passage of this. And fight the Bush funded, women hating disinformation campaign. –Ann Bartow
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Insomnia and Gender
Gayle Green’s article, Why We Can’t Sleep: It’s Not Just in Our Heads, from the Spring 2008 issue of Ms. Magazine posits a biological basis for insomnia: A 2007 poll by the National Sleep Foundation found that 67 percent of … Continue reading
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Health Care Providers and the Conscience Exception
“I learn as much from my students as they learn from me.” I’ve heard that line a few times (well … less frequently from law faculty members than from my friends who are secondary education teachers), and always suspected that … Continue reading
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“What if we cared about boob health as much as we care about boob size and boob-induced profits?”
Provocative essay by that title here.
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Patricia A. Broussard, “Female Genital Mutilation: Exploring Strategies for Ending Ritualized Torture; Shaming, Blaming, and Utilizing the Convention against Torture”
Read the article here.
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Two important reports from American Psychological Assn
The APA convention meeting this week in Boston is hearing two internal reports with important public policy dimensions. The report of the Task Force on Mental Health and Abortion concludes that no evidence supports the claim that an induced abortion … Continue reading
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“The Price of Pleasure”
Website here. Trailer here. Synopsis here. Clips here.
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“Basic Female Reproductive Biology”
Amananta has a long, link filled post here. I’m not a doctor so I can’t vouch for the linked information but I think it’s worth a read. –Ann Bartow
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“Violence Linked to Rapid Rise of AIDS in Women”
From Women’s Enews: … “Violence against women is both a cause and consequence of HIV and AIDS,” said Ines Alberdi, executive director of UNIFEM, the United Nations Development Fund for Women, at a press conference preceding the international gathering, held … Continue reading
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“According to a study by Merrilee Zetaruk of the Pan Am Sports Medical Center in Canada based on data collected largely from the 1990s, the number of injuries in competitive women’s gymnastics were as high as 200 per 100 gymnasts per year.”
That’s just one sentence from this NYT Op-Ed about Woman’s [Girls] Gymnastics, entitled “Creep Show.” ETA: Ouch.
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8th Circuit Decision On Shackling Pregnant Women
In a case out of Arkansas called Nelson v. Correctional Medical Services, 2008 WL 2777423 (8th Cir. 2008), the Eighth Circuit concluded that the shackling of a pregnant inmate laboring to deliver a baby did not constitute an Eighth Amendment … Continue reading
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Sexual Misconduct and Shackling of Pregnant Women
Amnesty International surveyed all 50 states as well as the District of Columbia and the Federal Bureau of Prisons to obtain information on the use of restraints on pregnant women in custody. These findings are based primarily on information provided … Continue reading
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Heels, Pain and Sexiness
Part one, and part two.
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Women, Body Image, Shame and Self-Objectification
Social science research report available here. Below is a short excerpt: In considering why a state of self-objectification might lead to extended body thoughts, we predicted that the experience of shame would play a key role. Previous researchers who manipulated … Continue reading
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“Liquid Virgin”
Contains alum, which is the ingredient found in persimmons that makes one pucker up. It’s also used in pickle brine. I’m not a doctor, but I’d guess that probably douching with a jar of pickles would induce the same … Continue reading
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AIDS and WOC
According to the CDC: Early in the epidemic, HIV infection and AIDS were diagnosed for relatively few women and female adolescents (although we know now that many women were infected with HIV through injection drug use but that their infections … Continue reading
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Snip, Snip, Snip and a Couple of Lah-Dee-Dahs
The August 2008 issue of Details magazine reports on a new “trend” in young men receiving vasectomies. In “The Birth-Control Extremists” Richard Morgan writes: [L]ately, vasectomies are becoming the province of young, single men who claim to be tired of … Continue reading
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Tapeworms As Diet Aid?
Ugh. Via.
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Ohio Paid Sick Leave Initiative Ignores LGBT Families
I never thought I’d see the day when I would question an effort to secure paid sick leave. But I recently learned that the campaign for paid sick leave in Ohio has proposed an initiative that will allow workers to … Continue reading
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Obama Newly Embracing Abortion Restrictions?
From the ABC News Blog Legalities: … In a recent interview, Obama appears to back away from his long-stated positions on abortion (and a proposed federal abortion rights law he had co-sponsored), repudiate 35 years of accepted Supreme Court rulings … Continue reading
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“Poverty is one reason so many Yemeni families marry their children off early. Another is the fear of girls being carried off and married by force. But most important are cultural tradition and the belief that a young virginal bride can best be shaped into a dutiful wife, according to comprehensive study of early marriage published by Sana University in 2006.”
That’s a paragraph from this heart wrenching account of young girls forced into marriage.
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