Health Alerts For Women

Tell HHS: Contraception is Prevention! Don’t deny it to any woman!

September 23, 2011 | 0 Comments

That’s the message we need to send immediately to HHS Secretary Kathleen Sebelius. HHS is seeking comments until September 30 on its proposed religious employer exemption from the contraceptive coverage […] Read More

Tell the FDA: An ounce of prevention is not worth a pound of trouble

September 23, 2011 | 0 Comments

that their bones were no longer as strong as those of younger women. The NWHN warned back in the 1990s when these drugs were brand new and might cause more […] Read More

Stop Shackling Pregnant Women!

September 7, 2011 | 0 Comments

If signed, AB 568 would build on current law and minimize restraints on any incarcerated pregnant woman when she is outside of the facility, including during transport and medical […] Read More

Breast Implants Back in the News from NWHN

September 1, 2011 | 0 Comments

During the first eight to 10 years after getting implants, 20-40 percent of women who get them for enlargement and 40-70 percent of reconstruction. Read more…

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Banned chemical levels high in pregnant women, V. Colliver, Chronicle Staff Writer

August 19, 2011 | 0 Comments

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Tell Campbell’s Soup to Stop Using BPA in Canned Food

August 19, 2011 | 0 Comments

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Hollaback website

August 12, 2011 | 0 Comments

At Hollaback!, we don’t buy it. Read more…

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A Powerful Tool for Improving Women’s Health,

August 1, 2011 | 0 Comments

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Historic Advance for Women’s Health

August 1, 2011 | 0 Comments

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IOM Experts Agree- Contraception is Prevention

July 20, 2011 | 0 Comments

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15-Year-Old Girl Faces Life in Prison for a Miscarriage? Why Conservatives Are Criminalizing Pregnant Women

July 15, 2011 | 0 Comments

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NWHN Reports that ovarian cancer (ca-25) screening is a bad idea

July 11, 2011 | 0 Comments

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July 8, 2011 | 0 Comments
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WHS Co-Sponsors Let’s Talk About Sex 2011 Conference

July 6, 2011 | 0 Comments

Women’s Health Specialists will be conducting women’s health and self-help workshops at the 2011 SisterSong Conference on July 14-18th. SisterSong is a women-of-color reproductive justice group of activist women. WHS […] Read More

A Tribute to Barbara Seaman: Triggering a revolution in women’s health care

July 6, 2011 | 0 Comments

Click on Cindy Pearson, It’s Taken Me 3 Years, at the bottom of the page.

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Kansas Regulators Try to Wipe Abortion Providers Off the Map

July 1, 2011 | 0 Comments

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BCAction commends ODAC’s vote to revoke Avastin for metastatic breast cancer

June 29, 2011 | 0 Comments

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10 States Where Abortion Is Virtually Illegal for Some Women

June 23, 2011 | 0 Comments

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Victory! Bill Boards Attacking Latina/o Communities Removed

June 20, 2011 | 0 Comments

CLRJ began pressure on the billboard owner, CBS Outdoors, to remove the heinous and offensive ads targeting Latinas in communities of color. Together we also brought this […] Read More

Racist, anti-abortion billboards targeting black women go up in Oakland

June 17, 2011 | 0 Comments

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