You’re Invited to Our Annual Fall Benefit on November 3, 2010
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Health Alerts for Women
Breast Cancer Action Announces Think Before You Pink Blog
Since the campaign began, we’ve been demanding transparency and accountability on the part of companies who align themselves with breast cancer causes.This year, as part of BCA’s efforts to carry your voice, we are launching a Think Before You Pink® blog. Read More
Tell Washingtion NOW: Safeguard Women’s Health – Don’t Ban Abortion Coverage!
Raising Women’s Voices informs us that we only have until Tuesday at midnight to tell Washington that politics about abortion shouldn’t deny sick women the care they need. To read more, view a video about banning abortion coverage, and join others in telling Kathleen Sebelius (HHS secretary) to safeguard… Read More
Today marks the first major milestone for national health reform
Today marks the first major milestone for national health reform. It’s been six months since President Obama signed the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA) into law. Today is also the day that many significant changes start to take effect. A new resource… Read More
RWV Action Alert: Tell Washington contraception is prevention!
Her agency will release this list by Sept 23, and will be implemented as guidelines for the Women’s Health Amendment to the new health reform law. You can reach her by email at: <Healthreform@hhs.gov , call the… Read More
Does Refusing a C-Section = Child Abuse?
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Challenging the Medicalization of Sex by the New View Campaign
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
Another Pill That Could Cause a Revolution
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Less Hormone Therapy, Less Breast Cancer
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
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