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At Our Bodies Our Blog today, I have a post on the FDA’s newly announced program to study the effects of prescription drugs used in pregnancy, a bit about the agency’s previously proposed rule change to make labeling of drugs more clear as to pregnancy effects, and links to some additional resources on prescription and [...]
A fairly short edition for the last day of my vacation…sigh.
At Your Cervix asks why some women giving birth “are complacent and let ‘us’ do whatever we feel is best” in Apathy vs Making Waves.
If you have a New Year’s resolution to quit smoking, the American Cancer Society has some tips to help you. [...]
What with the new year and decade and all, it seems appropriate to engage in a bit of reflection. First, the blog itself. This year will mark the 5th anniversary of Women’s Health News – I first posted on May 19, 2005, although that was at the blogspot location. While this little blog is not [...]
I just watched “A Girl’s Life” on PBS – it’s not specifically health-focused, but does examine issues of body image, bullying, violence, and education through profiles of four adolescent girls. It was very good and is well worth a watch, even for those without daughters.
Video on the PBS site
Info about the program at [...]
As explained in this Our Bodies Our Blog post:
Healthy People is a program of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services that sets health objectives for the nation for a ten-year period. The current set of objectives is referred to as Healthy People 2010, but as 2010 is fast approaching, the department is considering [...]
I’m probably the last person in America to hear that Asher Roth song, “I Love College,” which I had the misfortune to hear while traveling through an area with limited radio choices over the holidays. The basic premise of the song is that college is all about drinking and weed and naked girls and so [...]
I mentioned in the recent round-up post that a show had aired on TLC, Emergency Level One, which was shot at the larger workplace and follows Vanderbilt emergency and trauma personnel and cases. I forgot to mention that in between the main, followed cases, one of the ED guys (literally) catches a baby in the [...]
