Womens Health

Burning Bras with Keira Knightley

Darryle Pollack | Posted 07.31.2008 | Living

Read More: Women, Keira Knightley, Women's Health, Breast Cancer, Breast Cancer Treatment, Breast Cancer Mastectomy, Living News
Darryle Pollack

Like Knightley stood up to Hollywood by demanding to be accepted as flatchested, I chose not to have my body artificially enhanced after breast cancer and a mastectomy.

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More Bad News About Osteoporosis Drugs

Doug Bremner | Posted 07.17.2008 | Living

Read More: Fosamax, Women's Health, Prevention, Osteoporosis, Health, Drugs, Alendronate, Medications, Living News
Doug Bremner

Kudos to the New York Times for bringing up the issue and pointing out the risk of bisphosphonate drugs that are supposed to save you from fractures.

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Things That Make You Go Hmmm

Rep. Lois Capps | Posted 07.10.2008 | Politics

Read More: HIV/AIDS, Sexually Transmitted Diseases, Abstinence Education, John McCain, HIV/AIDS Africa, Senator McCain, Women's Health, Condoms, Politics News
Rep. Lois Capps

American women and families deserve to know how McCain feels on matters such as public funding for contraception, abstinence-only education, and the effectiveness of condoms in preventing STDs.

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Another Gaffe: McCain Unsure Whether Condoms Prevent STDs

Mark Nickolas | Posted 07.10.2008 | Politics

Read More: Abortion, Women's Rights, John McCain, Women's Health, Women Voters, George W. Bush, Hillary Clinton, Condoms, Barack Obama, Politics News
Mark Nickolas

If the media, which remains ga-ga over McCain would do some research (God forbid), they'd find other very disturbing examples of McCain not having a clue where he stands on similar issues.

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Women's Equality ... Why Not Now?

Marcia G. Yerman | Posted 07.07.2008 | Politics

Read More: Abortion, National Organization for Women, Women's Rights, Women's Issues, Motherhood, Family and Medical Leave Act, Pat Schroeder, Women and Work, Rep. Carolyn Maloney, Ron Dellums, Gloucester High School Pregnancy, Family Values, Lisa Witter, Women's Health, Women and Politics, Hillary Clinton, Women of Color Policy Network, Politics News
Marcia G. Yerman

Firecrackers and picnics aside, Abigail Adams didn't get to sign the Declaration of Independence, Betsy Ross sewed the flag, and how many people even know who Deborah Samson Gannett was?

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Hey buddy, can you spare some jing?

Lisa Earle McLeod | Posted 07.02.2008 | Living

Read More: Lisa Earle McLeod, Mental Health, Women's Issues, Women's Health, Wellness, Feng Shui, Religion, The View, The Inner Life, Spirituality, Living News
Lisa Earle McLeod

My jing is out of bling. And no amount of Doritos and NoDoz can revive it . I thought I'd unblocked the energies of the divine when a fen shui consul...

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Feet Are A Feminist Issue

Leora Tanenbaum | Posted 07.01.2008 | Living

Read More: Feminism, Sex and the City: The Movie, Fashion, Shoes, Women's Health, Feet, Living News
Leora Tanenbaum

It's hardly news that looking feminine can be painful--from plucking and waxing to the slicing off of fat and bone. But you should be aware that your most fashionable shoes, no matter how chic, harm your feet.

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In Favor of Plan B, IUD's and the Freedom of Choice

Danielle Cavallucci | Posted 06.18.2008 | Living

Read More: Women's Health, Plan B, Iud, Feminism, Canada, Healthcare, Sexuality, Education, Sex, News, Living News
Danielle Cavallucci

Why is it that Canadians have such an evolved take on sexuality and are so much less taboo driven and abstinence promoting?

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Father's Day Special: What Legacy Are You Passing On To Your Children?

Terry Real | Posted 06.14.2008 | Living

Read More: Terry Real, Dad, Mental Health, Fathers Day, Children, Women's Health, REAL Advice Blog, Men's Health, Health, Parenting, Legacy, Pledge, Fathers, Living News
Terry Real

In a family, the roles we pass from generation to generation can be like a fire in the woods, taking down everything in its path until one person has the courage to stand and face the fire.

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Should I Give My Wife a Statin?

Doug Bremner | Posted 06.09.2008 | Living

Read More: Women's Health, Zocor, Drugs, Pravachol, Medication, Lipitor, Statins, Living News
Doug Bremner

You may have read that heart disease is under diagnosed in women, and that they are missing potential treatments that could save their lives.

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Unmasking McCain: His Reactionary Record on Reproductive Rights

Arianna Huffington | Posted 05.26.2008 | Politics

Read More: Abortion, Women, John McCain Abortion, Reproductive Rights, Women Voters, Abortion Rights, Planned Parenthood, Roe vs Wade, 2008 Election and Gender, Choice, Gender, Abortion Laws, Women's Health, Anti-Choice, Mitt Romney Abortion, John McCain Supreme Court, Naral, Naral Obama, Politics News
Arianna Huffington

Many women who are avowed Hillary Clinton supporters are declaring they won't vote for Obama in the fall. I get the anger and the disappointment. But to quote SNL's Amy Poehler and Seth Meyers: Really?

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Help Us Write "The Gender Speech"

Marie Wilson | Posted 04.24.2008 | Politics

Read More: Politics, Obama, Democrats, Primary, Race, Clinton, Gender, Women, Gender Speech, Women's Health, Women and Politics, Barack Obama Race, Equal Pay, Obama Race Speech, Politics News
Marie Wilson

We need to open up the conversation on gender in America. What would a speech on gender sound like?

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Oklahoma's Anti-Abortion Bill a Setback for Both Pro-Choice and Pro-Life Advocates

Dr. Dana Stone | Posted 04.20.2008 | Living

Read More: Women's Health, Abortion, Pro-Choice, Living News
Dr. Dana Stone

This bill dictates how a doctor obtains informed consent, violates the patient's right to refuse medical interventions, and places disproportionate punishments on physicians who do not comply.

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Women's Realities: What HuffPost Women Had to Say

Joyce McFadden | Posted 04.03.2008 | Living

Read More: First Periods, Menstruation, Talking to Girls, Body Image, Women's Health, Mothers and Daughters, Judy Blume, Our Bodies Ourselves, Sex Education, Living News
Joyce McFadden

Because of its ordinary nature, there's an almost mundane quality to menstruation. But what interested me in the responses from women (ages 19-105) was that 65% of them wished they'd been taught about it differently.

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Pervasive Stigma Surrounds Women Living with HIV/AIDS

Susan Blumenthal, M.D. | Posted 04.01.2008 | Living

Read More: Women's Sexuality, Women With HIV, HIV/AIDS, Stds, Women With AIDS, United State HIV/AIDS, Women's Health, Disease, Female Condom, Safe Sex, Public Health, HIV/AIDS Stigma, Sexually Transmitted Diseases, Amfar, Living News
Susan Blumenthal, M.D.

Women with HIV/AIDS may suffer greater stigma than men -- they may be blamed as carriers, either as prostitutes infecting men or mothers infecting their infants.

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V-day & Circle of Health International

Giulia Rozzi | Posted 03.26.2008 | Living

Read More: Peggy Cafferty, Periel Aschenbrand, Theatre, Alysia Reiner, Eve Ensler, Circle of Health International, Emily King, V-Day, New York, Events, Violence Against Women, Women's Health, Health, Feminism, Living News
Giulia Rozzi

Edited by V-day founder Eve Ensler, A Memory, a Monologue, a Rant, and a Prayer features pieces from Until the Violence Stops, the international tour that brings the issue of violence against women and girls to the forefront of our consciousness.

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Lifting the Gag Rule On Day One

Deborah Derrick | Posted 03.10.2008 | Politics

Read More: Women's Health, Abortion Global Gag Rule, Global Gag Rule, Politics News
Deborah Derrick

Reversing the Global Gag Rule would signal to the rest of the world that the U.S. is determined to work with, not against, groups dedicated to progressing women's health around the world.

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How We Got a Film About a Serious Childbirth Injury (Obstetric Fistula) That No One in America Ever Heard of Into Movie Theaters

Allison Shigo | Posted 03.04.2008 | Entertainment

Read More: Catherine Hamlin, Addis Ababa Fistula Hospital, Reginal Hamlin, Unfpa, Ethiopia, Women's Health, Health, A Walk to Beautiful, Pregnancy, Documentaries, Nicholas Kristof, Obstetric Fistula, Childbirth, Entertainment News
Allison Shigo

Women in developing countries are either dying while giving birth or dying a symbolic death when they develop a fistula and are left to live the rest of their lives alone.

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Celebrating Fertile Bodies as Well as Fertile Minds

Karen Kisslinger | Posted 02.29.2008 | Living

Read More: HPV Vaccine, Hpv, Reproduction, Family Planning, Maternity Leave, Midwives, Midwife, Pregnancy, Fertility, Paternity Leave, Planned Parenthood, Sexuality, Gardasil, The Doctor's Case Against the Pill, Women's Sexuality, Birth Control Pill, Women's Health, Barbara Seaman, Doula, Living News
Karen Kisslinger

Barbara Seaman's general advice on new innovations for women: "wait 5 years" until we know if it's really safe.

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Remembering Barbara Seaman

Jennifer Baumgardner | Posted 02.27.2008 | Politics

Read More: Birth Control Pill, Women's Health, Feminist, Barbara Seaman, Birth Control, Lovely Me, Jacqueline Susann, Feminism, The Doctor's Case Against the Pill, Politics News
Jennifer Baumgardner

At Ms. magazine, I was asked to fact-check a profile of Barbara Seaman, a pioneer in the women's health movement. I called her and three hours later got off the phone a changed person.

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Your Pill is Safer Because of Her

Leora Tanenbaum | Posted 02.27.2008 | Politics

Read More: Birth Control Pill, Women's Health, Barbara Seaman, Gloria Steinem, Contraception, Birth Control, D.C. Liberation, Barbarah Ehrenreich, The Greatest Experiment Ever Performed on Women, The Doctor's Case Against the Pill, Politics News
Leora Tanenbaum

Barbara Seaman, who died today, rallied to educate people about the politics of the health care industry -- in connection with the Pill and so much more.

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David Vitter is Thinking About Your Granddaughter's Vagina

Chris Kelly | Posted 02.27.2008 | Politics

Read More: Abortion, American Indians, Indian Health Care Improvement, David Vitter, David Vitter Abortion, Women's Health, Politics News
Chris Kelly

I'm trying to think if anything's happened in Louisiana in the last couple of years that might be a bigger problem than American Indian abortion.

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I Smell A Rat

Emme | Posted 02.20.2008 | Living

Read More: Women's Health, Phamaceutical Industry, Women's Self Esteem, Plus Size, Diet Industry, Body Image, Living News
Emme

Wake up, women! Big business is out to take our well-earned money and they are willing to steamroll our self-esteem for their gain if we let them.

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If Your Vagina Could Talk, What Would it Say? "Take me to New Orleans."

Elizabeth Benedict | Posted 02.15.2008 | Entertainment

Read More: New Orleans, Sexual Violence, V-Day, Rape, Violence Against Women, The Vagina Monologues, Jane Fonda, Theater, Plays, Jane Fonda Vagina Monologues, Jane Fonda and Cunt, Women's Health, Eve Ensler, Valentine's Day, Vagina, Jane Fonda Today Show, Entertainment News
Elizabeth Benedict

What's happened as a result of The Vagina Monologues is a tribute to the power of one person - one misbehaving woman -- to move the world.

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From Superdome to Superlove -- V-Day at 10

Marianne Schnall | Posted 01.31.2008 | Living

Read More: Women's Sexuality, Sexual Violence, V-Day, Feminist, Women's Health, Sex, The Vagina Monologues, Sexism, Eve Ensler, Theater, Media Sexism, Feminism, Superdome, Living News
Marianne Schnall

The "mega event of the decade," as Eve Ensler describes it, is certain to be The Vagina Monologues' and V-Day's ten-year anniversary celebration, V to the Tenth.

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