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The HealthScare Debate

David Spiegel | Posted 09.27.2009 | Living

Read More: Health Insurance, Health Care Reform, Public Health Insurance Plan, Insurance Industry, Government-Option, Medicare, David Spiegel, Health, M.D., Living News

So the health scare mongers accuse the government of what the private insurers are now doing. The anti-change 'protesters' are angry and they're not gonna take it any more. The only problem is that the private insurers have already taken it, and the anti-reformers are angry at the wrong people.

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Video: Treatment Options For Uterine Fibroids

Kathy Plesser, MD | Posted 11.11.2009 | Living

Read More: Uterine Fibroids, Alison Jacoby, Md, Ucsf, Fibroids, Health, Living News

Dr. Jacoby describes the symptoms and indications for hysterectomy and also about uterine artery emobolization, a method of shrinking fibroids in women who have completed childbearing.

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Video: A Clinical Trial Explaining DCIS

Kathy Plesser, MD | Posted 11.08.2009 | Living

Read More: Shelley Hwang, Dcis, Md, Breast Cancer, Uscf, Living News

Since all DCIS is not the same as regards malignant potential, Dr. Shelley Hwang describes a clinical trial that will hopefully provide some answers.

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The National Cancer Institute Should Delay Its Collaboration With Love/Avon

Samuel S. Epstein | Posted 10.20.2009 | Living

Read More: Cosmetic Ingredients, Avon Army of Women, Nci, Parabens, National Cancer Institute, M.D., Health, Samuel S. Epstein, Women's Health, Carcinogens, Cosmetics, The Avon Foundation, Dr. Susan Love, Living News

The NCI should insist that Avon reformulate its products to phase out all toxic ingredients and replace them by safe alternatives before proceeding with their important initiative.

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What Defines A Woman...And What Does California's Prop 8 Have To Do With Menopause?

Rebecca Booth, MD | Posted 09.24.2009 | Living

Read More: Intersex, Erectile Dysfunction, Prop 8, Gender Testing, Menopause, Turner's Syndrome, Procreation, Doma, Defense of Marriage Act, Same-Sex Marriage, Md, Rebecca Booth, Relationships, Sex, Love, Dr. Rebecca Booth, Living News

Recently I have held some interesting conversations stemming from the debate about California's Prop 8. Specifically, if the law defines the state of matrimony to be legal only between a man and a woman, how does the law define a man and a woman?

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Help Women and Girls Fight HIV/AIDS

Joyce McFadden | Posted 09.05.2009 | World

Read More: HIV/AIDS, Kristen Ashburn, Women and Girls Infected With HIV, International Women's Health Coatlition, Holly Andersen, Md, I Am Because We Are, Forward by Madonna, Cornell Weill Medical Center, Girls Power Initiative, Womens Rights, HIV/AIDS Africa, World News

Ensuring equal access to prevention, treatment, care and support for women and girls requires ending the gender inequality and discrimination that drive the pandemic.

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Helping Women: Eliminating Obstetric Fistula in Developing World

Jim Luce | Posted 08.28.2009 | World

Read More: George Bush, Facebook, Mexican National Institute of Health, Ronald Reagan, Myspace, “Global Gag Rule”, Women’s Health, Pregnancy, Thought Leaders, Vaginal Fistula, Global Citizens, South Africa, Clinton Global Initiative, Roe v. Wade, Argentina, World Health Organization, Abortion, Uganda, Bill Clinton, Developing World, M.D., Roman Catholic Church, EngenderHealth., Mexico, Twitter, AIDS Prevention, Barack Obama, Ana Langer, Women, Population Control, Reproductive Health, Smith Barney, India, Obstetric Fistula, Orphans International Worldwide, Frances D. Alleman-Luce, Usaid, Pep Far, Engenderhealth, World News

EngenderHealth focuses on far more than fistula repair and prevention. They are dedicated to improving the overall health and well-being of people in the countries where they work.

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In Global Recession, Health Care Reform Which Saves Money Is An Economic Imperative

John Geyman | Posted 11.23.2008 | Politics

Read More: Great Depression of the 1930s, Global Recession, M.D., Health, Market-Driven Inflation of Health Care Costs, Mccain Proposal, Medicare, Health Care Reform, Failures of Deregulated Markets, John Geyman, Nhi, Obama Healthcare, National Health Insurance, Federal Employees Health Benefit Plan, Obama Healthcare Plan, Gdp, Single-Payer National Health Insurance, FEHBP, Politics News

While the so-called "debate" over health care reform heats up, the only real option to reform health care -- single-payer national health insurance (NHI) -- is being largely overlooked.

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