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About YOUR Health: Needle Biopsy, Fibroids, and Spermicide Allergy
September/October 1999
Questions and Answers from the NWHN Women's Health Information Clearinghouse
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Mon, September 06, 1999 You Heard It Here First: Food and Fibroids
September/October 1999
Over the last few years, thousands of women have contacted the Network's Clearinghouse for information on fibroids. In addition to information on surgical and medical alternatives to hysterectomy, we have also given women information about possible nutritional links with fibroids. Finally, a study exploring the association between food and fibroids has been published in a medical journal.
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Mon, September 06, 1999 Women's Health Snapshots:Breast Cancer Awareness
September/October 1999
Breast Cancer Awareness Month, which emphasizes screening and not prevention, is sponsored primarily by the chemical company AstraZeneca. AstraZeneca is a British multinational which manufactures the drug tamoxifen, as well as many fungicides and herbicides, such as acetochlor, a known carcinogen. AstraZeneca's chemical plant in Perry, OH is the third largest producer of potential cancer causing pollution in the U.S.
Sierra, September/October 1999, pp. 3&41, 63
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Mon, September 06, 1999 Tampon Safety, Revisited
July/August 1999
By Yolanda Lenzy and Amy Allina
An old controversy is heating up again. The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) and women's health advocates are at odds over an important public health question. Are tampons safe? The problem is that the answer depends on whom you ask.
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Mon, July 05, 1999 About YOUR Health: Lichen Sclerous and VBAC
July/August 1999
Questions and Answers from the NWHN Women's Health Information Clearinghouse
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Mon, July 05, 1999 Members Speak Out: Results of the 1999 Member Survey
July/August 1999
Thanks to all of our members who responded to our 1999 Member Survey, helping to make it another great success this year! When we tallied the results in early May, we had received nearly 1,000 responses. That's a fantastic rate! Since then, additional surveys have arrived and, while they didn't make it into the official results, we continue to read your responses with interest. The survey this year asked for your opinion on our program and policy projects in three different categories: Public Education Campaigns, Watchdog for Women's Health, and Public Policy Advocacy.
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Mon, July 05, 1999 From Our Readers
July/August 1999
Sociologist and community activist Dr. Lori B. Girshick has begun a nationwide study on woman to woman sexual violence. The study is aimed at lesbians, bisexual women, and transgendered/ transsexual women. A focus of the study is to understand what labels women who are sexually assaulted by their female partners or dates use. Do they call the violence sexual assault, sexual coercion, or abuse? The words women use to describe their experiences influence the actions they take to deal with their abuse.
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Mon, July 05, 1999 Women's Health Snapshots: Contraceptive Choices
July/August 1999
Women with a choice of contraception are more likely to use contraception. When women who were on the pill and at risk for STDs were offered nonoxynol-9 film as well as condoms, and received counseling on the benefits of two simultaneous barrier methods, they were more likely to not only use barrier contraception but also to continue using condoms in particular.
Sexually Transmitted Diseases March 1998
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Mon, July 05, 1999 Weaving Women's Health Together: A Report on the Foundation for Women's Health and the American College of Women's Health Physicians
July/August 1999
By Kelley Phillips, MD, MPH and Charlea Massion, MD
The Foundation for Women's Health (FWH), created in 1996, is a nonprofit organization of women's health consumers and clinicians who strive to offer holistic, integrated, women-centered healthcare. FWH advocates for educational programs based on sex- and gender- specific science for feminist health policy and legislation.
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Mon, July 05, 1999 Contraception Equity on the State Level
July/August 1999
By Shellie Ellis, MA
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Mon, July 05, 1999 www.womenshealthnetwork.org is here!
July/August 1999
Thanks to your generous support, the Network at long last has established its presence on the world wide web! The Network's website is a wonderful tool that allows us to provide you with additional support and information on women's health topics and issues that you are most concerned about. Our website looks fantastic thanks to the hard work of Sonja Herbert and Brooke Grandle who have developed the Network's information content and look for the internet.
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Mon, July 05, 1999 U.S. Deemed Sponge-Worthy!
July/August 1999
By Amy Allina
Women are celebrating the recent announcement that starting this fall the contraceptive sponge will once again be available in the United States.
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Mon, July 05, 1999 Resources: Organizations, Books, Alternative Products
July/August 1999
Organizations
Citizens Clearinghouse for Hazardous Waste,
P.O. Box 6806, Falls Church, VA
22040. Tel: 703-237-2249.
Endometriosis Association,
8585 N. 76th Place,
Milwaukee, Wl 53223.
Tel: 800-992-3636.
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Mon, July 05, 1999 Abortion and Breast Cancer: Get the Facts AGAIN!
May/June 1999
The anti-choice movement is at it again! Renewed efforts to scare women away from abortion by linking it with breast cancer are emerging around the country. Opponents of abortion rights are distorting scientific research for their own political ends with revived ad campaigns and new legislative initiatives. This time, however, women's health advocates are prepared and are fighting back with the facts. While researchers are looking at the question of whether there may be an association between abortion and breast cancer, a link has not been proven.
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Mon, May 03, 1999 About YOUR Health: Ovarian Cysts
May/June 1999
Questions and Answers from the NWHN Women's Health Information Clearinghouse
Q: I was recently diagnosed with an ovarian cyst and my doctor told me to just to wait it out for a couple of months. Is this a typical approach?
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Mon, May 03, 1999 Corporate Funding and Conflict of Interest Among U.S. Non-Profit Women's Health Organizations
May/June 1999
By Jane Sprague Zones and Adrians Fugh-Berman
This paper, in its original format, was presented at the Annual Meeting of the American Public Health Association in Washington, DC on November 17, 1998.
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Mon, May 03, 1999 Counter the Preven® Prevention
May/June 1999
Wal-Mart has instituted a corporate policy prohibiting its stores from selling Preven, ® an emergency contraception product currently available in the United States. The second largest pharmacy chain in the country, Wal- Mart, sent a memo to its pharmacists instructing them not to stock, order or dispense Preven. ® Using regular birth control pills to prevent pregnancy up to 72 hours after unprotected intercourse has been possible for many years, but few clinicians told women about the option.
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Mon, May 03, 1999 Letter to the Editor: Regarding "Wild Yam Cream, Diosgenin, and Natural Progesterone: What Can They Really Do for You?"
May/June 1999
Dear Dr. Fugh-Berman,
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Mon, May 03, 1999 New Estrogen Approved for Marketing
May/June 1999
By Cindy Pearson
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Mon, May 03, 1999 The Quinacrine Controversy
May/June 1999
By Rajani Bhatia and Anne Hendrixson
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Mon, May 03, 1999 