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Health & Wellness News tagged with Women

On Being Beautiful: Because Makeup Isn't Enough
Health & Wellness  (tags: environment, ethics, family, health, humans, interesting, women )

Daphna
- 15 hours ago - lime.com
I've been stewing this week over the choices I've been making on a daily basis. Some are "good" (i.e. moral, ethical, healthy, or beneficial), some are "bad" (i.e. immoral, unethical, bad for my health, or detrimental in every way), and some choices I did
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ACTION ALERT: Hidden Facts of Premarin- Secrets, Lies, And Greed!!
Health & Wellness  (tags: menopause, women, premarin, horses slaughtered, horses abused, drugs, health )

Simone
- 4 days ago - petitionspot.com
Menopause affects every woman, and doctors have treated the symptoms of menopause for nearly 60 years with a drug called Premarin, which has become the third most prescribed drug in the world (just behind Tylenol), bringing its single maker over one
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11 Toxic Cosmetic Ingredients You Must Avoid
Health & Wellness  (tags: children, disease, health, family, humans, illness, investigation, prevention, research, study, women )

Daphna
- 5 days ago - ecosalon.com
The greener we become, the more we have to scrutinize. I for one have cleaned up my home, my diet, my cleaning products and "" of utmost importance "" the products I put on my skin. I'm an avid ingredient reader and do the research "" after all, my skin i
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TAKE ACTION: Senate Vote Tomorrow Health Care
Health & Wellness  (tags: women, healthcare, health, senate, prevention, government )

Tierney
- 7 days ago - org2.democracyinaction.org
The Senate is scheduled to vote on whether to open debate on its healthcare reform bill tomorrow night. Unlike the House, the Senate's bill protects the status quo for reproductive healthcare coverage for women. Not a single Republican is anticipate
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Sebelius on Mammograms: Don't Change What You're Doing
Health & Wellness  (tags: health, Health and Human Services Secretary, healthcare, mammograms, prevention, research, protection, safety, women )

Dee
- 9 days ago - prescriptions.blogs.nytimes.com
Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius on Wednesday afternoon issued a strong statement intended to put distance between federal policy and an influential panel's recommendations that most women..
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The Stupak-Pitts Controversy Is Based On--and Masks--A Deepset Fear of Women's Agency
Health & Wellness  (tags: women, healthcare, health, government, abortion, stupak-pitts )

Tierney
- 10 days ago - rhrealitycheck.org
The Stupak-Pitts amendment to the House bill for health care reform grabbed most of the headlines after the health care reform vote. It makes sense---the media and socially conservative politicians love to bang the drum about abortion
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No Ban on Abortion Coverage-Please Take Action!!!
Health & Wellness  (tags: women, protection, healthcare, safety, prevention, government )

Tierney
- 10 days ago - org2.democracyinaction.org
When you need medical care, your insurance should pay for it. Yet some in Congress are trying to use healthcare reform to ban insurance coverage for abortion services, coverage that millions of women already have.
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Delay Routine Mammograms Until Age 50, US Panel Says
Health & Wellness  (tags: women, breast cancer prevention, mammograms )

Lone
- 11 days ago - boston.com
An influential scientific panel today jolted widely accepted beliefs about breast cancer screening, recommending that women in their 40s forgo routine mammograms and that older women undergo the test every other year instead of annually
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Titanium Rib Plates Save Life of Blackfoot Woman
Health & Wellness  (tags: titanium plates, women, ribs, interesting, healthcare )

Lone
- 11 days ago - localnews8.com
POCATELLO & BLACKFOOT - A woman in Blackfoot is saying a surgeon at Portneuf Medical Center in Pocatello, along with some help from up above, saved her life. It's all thanks to a new procedure
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Cleaning for A Reason Foundation
Health & Wellness  (tags: cancer, women, help )

MADARTIST
- 12 days ago - cleaningforareason.org
Fighting cancer is difficult enough, but living with it is even tougher - and that's where the Cleaning for A Reason Foundation steps in. This newly formed nonprofit offers free professional housecleaning, and maid services.......
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Sign the Petition, Send a Coat Hanger
Health & Wellness  (tags: petition, women, treatment, protection, medicine, humans, illness, health, family, death, children, babies, prevention )

Daphna
- 12 days ago - act.credoaction.com
"We know what happens when women are denied access to reproductive health care including abortion. And we can't go back to an era of coat hangers and back alley abortions. Reconsider your vote on the Stupak Amendment. Tell House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and
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WHO Report Highlights Gender Disparities, Cites AIDS as Leading Cause of Women's Deaths
Health & Wellness  (tags: women, disease, health, risks, WHO, HIV, healthcare )

Tierney
- 13 days ago - nationalpartnership.org
November 11, 2009 -- Women around the world are "denied a chance to develop their full human potential" because of a lack of essential health care throughout their lives, according to a World Health Organization report released Monday, Reuters report
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Did These Democrats Forget What Happens When Women Are Denied Access to Abortion?Please Take Action!!
Health & Wellness  (tags: women, safety, risks, healthcare, health, government )

Tierney
- 13 days ago - act.credoaction.com
Sign this petition and send a coat hanger to the 20 formerly pro-choice Democrats -- all men -- who voted to pass the Stupak Amendment.
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Anti-Choice "Egg-as-Person" Initiatives Threaten the Rights Of Women
Health & Wellness  (tags: women, government, protection, healthcare, news )

Tierney
- 15 days ago - rhrealitycheck.org
Eight months pregnant, confused and suffering psychological disorders, Jessica Clyburn jumped from a fifth story window in South Carolina. According to the media, she had attempted unsuccessfully to commit suicide.
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Another Doctor Mad As Hell
Health & Wellness  (tags: women, healthcare, congress, government, prevention, family )

Tierney
- 15 days ago - rhrealitycheck.org
Congress has done it. They've thrown women's reproductive rights under the bus. They've catered to religious extremists rather than protect the health of our mothers, daughters, and sisters
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