Birth Control or Food?

I am on the Planned Parenthood email listserv, and received a message from them entitled “Pills or dinner?”
According to PP,

A legislative error made the price of birth control skyrocket for low-income and college-age women. It was a devastating, unintended mistake, and Planned Parenthood started working immediately to help Congress restore affordable birth control.

Please [...]

Eating Healthy –> Baby Boys ???

Once again, I am subjecting you to two of my pet peeves: 1) Crappy cnn.com article and 2) Inane and insulting commentary on a scientific study.
According to this article (nicely titled “Study shows bananas make baby boys”), women who eat more potassium- and calcium-enriched foods and have cereal for breakfast are more likely to have [...]

Sex and Chocolate, need I say more?

Ahoy! Tonight is the Sex and Chocolate panel. Mmmm.  It’s co-sponsored by Watumishi, Empowerment, and Health Ed and is part of Watumishi’s AIDs Awareness Week.  A description of the event:
The Sex & Chocolate panel discussion is a question and answer forum on human sexuality, faith and health issues. Students receive a note card at the [...]

Removal of Abortion from Med School Curricula

This shocking account of a med student witnessing the subtle eradication of education on abortions in medical school is frightening. Medicine, as Pyle says, should be a place on which politics should not intrude. If doctors are afraid to speak up, what kind of health care can we expect?
Pyle writes:
Medicine today is “evidence-based.” Treatments must [...]

Everything You Ever Wanted To Know About Dental Dams (aka, Thank You Anthony Rapp)!

This evening, I had the pleasure of hearing Anthony Rapp, star of the poignant and rousing Rent, speak about his experience with the show to kick off Aids Awareness Week.  He is well-spoken and smart, and was patient (more patient than I was) with some of the foolish questions people asked, such as, “Have you [...]

Pregnancy Discrimination

Women who choose to work and have a child are often discriminated against–accused both of being poor mothers for working, and of being poor workers for mothering. The Wall Street Journal is now reporting that incidents of pregnancy discrimination keep rising, which is a disturbing trend.
I wonder if this might be a product [...]

Guest Post: STI Study

The following is a guest post from our loyal contributor Caitlin.  (Thanks Caitlin!)
A study released this week by the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention found that 1 in 4 teen girls (aged 14 to 19) has a sexually transmitted infection.  This is one of the first studies to examine STI rates among adolescents [...]

Way to go Wisconsin!

On Thursday, the Wisconsin state senate passed the Compassionate Care for Rape Victims bill that would require hospitals to offer access to emergency contraception for women after they have been raped.  While this law would be well overdue, it is certainly a great advance in the fight for reproductive justice in Wisconsin.  From the Badger Herald:
Sara [...]

Either a stupid study or a weak-minded writer, your pick

So get this, when you develop a relationship with a human being you love and care about, your brain responds differently to that individual than it does to any other person.  Shocking, I know.  But it appears researchers are just discovering this! (perhaps I should have majored in the sciences…  From the nytimes:
A mother’s impulse [...]