Tue, October 11, 2011
Christina Cherel - NWHN Intern
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Wed, October 05, 2011
Christina Cherel - NWHN Intern
It appears members of the GOP are doing everything in their power to make sure Planned Parenthood centers around the nation don’t catch a break. Earlier this year, a Republican-led bill intended to strip Planned Parenthood Federation of America of desperately needed federal funds. Now, believing that the organization has misused federal funds for abortion procedures,...
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Fri, August 26, 2011
By Katherine Mullins - Former NWHN Intern
In the 1881 edition of a popular medical manual called the Physician Himself, D.W Cathell offers advice to help physicians conceal information from their patients; “avoid giving self-sufficient people therapeutic points that they can thereafter resort to… it is not your duty to cheat either yourself or other physicians out of legitimate practice by supplying this...
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Wed, August 17, 2011
By Samantha Greenberg - Former NWHN Intern
As devoted feminists, the women at NWHN have been celebrating the Department of Health and Human Services August 1st announcement that insurance companies must completely cover women’s preventative health care services. As a young woman who takes my reproductive health seriously, I am thrilled about the decision and what it means for American women, as well as what it means...
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Tue, July 26, 2011
Keemi Ereme
On Tuesday, the Institute of Medicine (IOM) released its recommendations to the Health and Human Services Committee (HHS). For many people this doesn’t seem like much. The overbearing question is who these groups are and what does this mean for me. These recommendations could mean that millions of women will now be able to...
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Fri, July 15, 2011
Alyssa
The words sound almost miraculous in today’s anti-choice climate: free prescription contraceptives. But this would-be miracle is very close to becoming a reality thanks to the new health care law.
Under the Affordable Care Act, private health plans are required to provide certain preventive health services without any out of pocket cost to...
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Tue, July 05, 2011
Keemi
Hidden behind the enormous wall of press coverage focused on the debt ceiling debate in Washington are two pieces of legislation that have gotten minimal mainstream attentions, but if passed could radically alter the state of abortion rights and women’s rights in the US. These legislative acts are known as the “No...
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Fri, June 24, 2011
Alyssa
The fight for women’s rights is receiving more political and media attention in recent months than my young intern brain can ever remember. It is no longer just controversy over abortion; the issue has reached draconian levels, striving to make contraception part of the debate. Republicans are using the budget deficit as an excuse to attack government funded...
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Thu, June 23, 2011
Keemi Ereme
Skin cancer is the most common cancer in the world and it can affect all age groups and genders. Although, the rate of skin cancer in younger people has been decreasing, the rate of skin cancer in older people has been rising through the years. Damage from ultraviolet rays starts when you’re young and skin cancer from that exposure usually develops later in life,...
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Tue, June 21, 2011
Keemi Ereme
Every year, ten to twelve million girls in the developing world are married off young. These brides range in age from 5 to 17 and every single one of them is married illegally as a child bride. These young girls are forced to have sexual relations at a young age and become pregnant at an equally young age which leads to a myriad of negative medical...
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