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Monthly Archives: May 2008

NVIC Launches “Stand Up Be Counted Campaign”

To Protect Voluntary Vaccination Decisions in America
Washington, D.C. - The oldest and largest consumer organization dedicated to preventing vaccine injuries and deaths, the National Vaccine Information Center (NVIC), announced today that it will launch a national public education campaign to protect the legal right to make informed, voluntary decisions about vaccination in America. […]

Autism theory gains support

Conceding a rare vaccine tie.
By Marie McCullough
Staff Writer
The Philadelphia Inquirer
May. 29, 2008
For a decade, the government, public- health experts and medical groups have said there is no credible scientific evidence - none - that vaccines cause autism.
Then came Hannah Poling, a 9-year-old from Athens, Ga. A federal program created to compensate vaccine-injury victims conceded […]

Eliminate Birth Control Pills, IUDs are safer

Wednesday, May 28, 2008
Dr. Erika.com
Eliminate Birth Control Pills, IUDs are safer
Let me preface this blog with a clear and unequivocal statement: Birth control pills are dangerous to your health!
There is no debate here, just facts. Birth control pills are made of chemical substances that are specifically designed to destroy your body’s natural hormone rhythms and […]

Immunity Gap: A Growing Number of Concerned Parents Exempt Children from Required Shots

As more parents refuse vaccines for their kids, health officials worry.by Andrea Orr
May 27, 2008Edutopia.org
The George Lucas Education Foundation
 
http://www.edutopia.org/health-child-vaccinations

Late last year, Jessie Griffiths took a notarized document into the rural New Hampshire school her three-year-old son Cole attends, stating that, because of religious objections, he was not up-to-date on his vaccines. Later she admitted, “This […]

Irregular Menstrual Cycles in Teens May Be Warning Sign of Bulimia

Science News
Science Daily ( May 22, 2008 )
Girls who make themselves throw up to control their weight are putting their health at risk, even if they do so only occasionally and even if their weight is in a healthy range, finds a study published in May’s Journal […]

The Center Will Not Hold As Parents & Docs Question Vaccine Policy

The Center Will Not Hold As Parents & Docs Question Vaccine Policy
by Barbara Loe Fisher
It was only a matter of time. For 26 years parents of vaccine injured children and a few brave doctors have challenged the one-size-fits-all approach to mandated use of multiple vaccines in the absence of sound scientific evidence that […]

Implanon: just slip it in?

 
ON LINE  opinion  - Australia’s e-journal of social and political debate
By Renate Klein
Posted May 6, 2008
Over the past weeks Implanon, the three-year contraceptive implant, has been in the media spotlight. It was reported that 12-year old Aboriginal girls were “temporarily sterilised” with Implanon in a number of Queensland and Northern Territory remote communities (see, for instance, Tim […]

Hemitra Crecraft: Celebrating the Female Fertility Cycle

(excerpted from Forward to the Adult Guidebook, Coming of Age: From Bud to Flower Menarche Kit)
I taught my first Coming of Age class for mothers and their daughters in April of 1994. I remember walking into the workshop room, sitting down and looking into the eyes of 10 little girls who clung to the sides […]