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N-9 Contraceptives Must Carry Warning Label
Monday, January 21st, 2008

http://www.microbicide.org/publications/show_story.html?NewsID=2714
The federal Food and Drug Administration is adopting a new rule that will require warning labels on contraceptive products that contain the spermicide nonoxynol-9 but the federal agency is delaying the establishment of a similar rule on condoms containing N-9.


Elective C-Sections
Thursday, January 10th, 2008

My husband and I are anxiously awaiting the arrival of our goddaughter in February. We can’t wait to meet the little one!
The mom-to-be has nonchalantly mentioned that she will “most likely have a C-Section,” which she would prefer.
Now, I’ve never been pregnant myself, so I can’t say that I know everything (or much of anything) about […]


The Body Peace Treaty
Thursday, January 3rd, 2008

Seventeen magazine has recently begun a campaign called The Body Peace Treaty. Jess Weiner, author of Do I Look Fat in This? and A Very Hungry Girl, runs the Body Peace blog, where girls can ask her questions and get advice about body image. 
In addition, there is an actual treaty, which includes celebrity signatures from the likes of Pink, Ashlee Simpson, […]


In Search of Hope
Friday, December 14th, 2007

Two years ago Mariane Pearl—widow of slain Wall Street Journal reporter Daniel Pearl—set out on a personal round-the-globe search for hope and heroes. Her new book goes behind the scenes of her Global Diary column for Glamour magazine where she profiles ordinary women who are changing the world in extraordinary ways.
For each copy purchased on […]


Lend a hand…it’s free!
Wednesday, November 7th, 2007

The Breast Cancer Site is having trouble getting enough people to click on their site daily to meet their quota of donating at least one free mammogram a day to an underprivileged woman. It takes less than a minute to go to their site and click on “Click to Give FREE Mammograms” (the pink button […]