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NY Times Notes Merck Gardasil® Predatory Advertising Campaign

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H. Sandra Chevalier-Batik
Opportunistic marketing isn�t new. Mass merchandising of tobacco products to minors delivered millions of “Hooked for Life” or at least until premature death “users” for BIG TOBACCO. With recent regulations that allegedly limited marketing tobacco to minors, rapacious advertising agencies and armies of mercenaries (lobbyists) have moved to a new, even more, profitable […]

Safe, Cost Effective PAP Test or Gardasil®

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Posted by H. Sandra Chevalier-Batik
Researchers and public health officials are FINALLY waking up, and stepping up, to ask tough questions about the cost effectiveness of administering a very expensive, and not thoroughly vetted vaccine to every girl and young woman in the free world. Is the use of Gardasil� as a preventive measure against cervical […]

Getting to the Heart of Women’s Health

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Natural News
August 8, 2008
by Leigh Erin Connealy, M.D. (see all articles by this author)
(NaturalNews) Cardiovascular Disease has long been thought of as a man’s disease while in reality it is the leading cause of death among women today. This year 435,000 women in America will have heart attacks with over half of them resulting in […]

Education report: Children’s fast development, worldliness

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 pose challenge for parents
Daily Gazzette
Schenectady, NY
August 10, 2008
Last summer, you took your kids to the beach and they were excited to go.
You tossed a Frisbee with them and everyone had fun. Family picnics were enjoyable. Dad played basketball with the kids, shooting at the adjustable-height hoop on the stand at the end of the driveway.
Big […]

Why Should We Pay Attention to Girls?

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Fact Sheet
The Girl Effect
www.girleffect.org
Little research has been done to understand how investments in girls impact economic growth and the health and  well-being of communities. This lack of data reveals how pervasively girls have been overlooked. For millions  of girls across the developing world, there are no systems to record their birth, their citizenship, or even […]

Delayed Sleep Pattern Tied to Irregular Menstrual Cycles

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FRIDAY, June 13 (HealthDay News) — Having delayed sleep phase syndrome (DSPS) appears to be linked to irregular menstrual cycles and increased premenstrual symptoms in women, according to a new report.
DSPS occurs when your internal clock is naturally out of sync with real time, so that staying up late and having difficulty waking early is […]

A No-Brainer: Obey the M.D. With the Needle or My Conscience?

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NVIC Vaccine E-Newsletter
June 11, 20008
by Barbara Loe Fisher
ww w.vaccineawakening.blogspot.com
www.NVIC.org
I know and respect a number of enlightened medical doctors working with Moms and Dads as equal partners in making health care decisions for children, which may include making informed vaccination choices that do not necessarily conform with government policy. I also admire responsible, insightful […]

Influence Of The Menstrual Cycle On The Female Brain

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ScienceDaily (Feb. 11, 2007)
What influence does the variation in estrogen level have on the activation of the female brain? Using functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging, Jean-Claude Dreher, a researcher at the Cognitive Neuroscience Center (CNRS/Université Lyon 1), in collaboration with an American team from the National Institute of Mental Health (Bethesda, Maryland) directed by Karen Berman, […]

Plants Don’t Lie

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Tuesday, March 14, 2006
21st Reality
Imagine a world without plants? The moon is such a place. It looks nice in the sky, but we wouldn’t want to live on it. Aristotle told us plants have souls, but cannot feel. The early 20th-century botanist Raoul France of Vienna told us plants move as freely and as gracefully […]

Medicalizing Young Women - A Dangerous Trend

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by Sherrill Sellman
Excerpted from Ms. Sellman’s newly released book
“What Women MUST Know To Protect Their Daughters from Breast Cancer”
Reprinted with permission 
 
January 18, 2006
 
These days, young women are besieged by many challenges. Social pressures, economic concerns, health problems, schoolwork, and family tensions all tilt the stress barometer into the dangerous red zone. Skipping meals, eating junk food along […]