Author Archives: Netguava

Challenging the Medicalization of Sex by the New View Campaign

September 10, 2010 - By A New View Campaign - 0 Comments

The rapid incursion of pharmaceutical industry influence into sex research and professional education in the 1990s provoked our “New View” campaign in 2000. Our goal is to expose the deceptions and consequences of industry involvement in sex research, professional sex education, and sexual treatments, and to generate… Read More

Less Hormone Therapy, Less Breast Cancer

August 27, 2010 - By Adriane Fugh-Berman, M.D. - 0 Comments

A new study shows that, in 2003, the year after the estrogen-progestin arm of the WHI was stopped, breast cancer rates plummeted by seven percent. Read more…… Read More

A New Contraceptive Method, ella, is Approved

August 20, 2010 - By the National Women's Health Network - 0 Comments

Ella allows a woman to “back up her birth control”, not just the morning after unprotected sex or contraceptive failure, but up to five days after unprotected sex. Read more…… Read More

Abortion Speak Out Campaign

August 4, 2010 - 0 Comments

In order to combat the stigma and shame of abortion, we at Women’s Health Specialists know the tremendous impact that women can have by sharing their stories. Not only do women feel less isolated but they feel more supported by other women. Policy makers take more notice… Read More