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Do Women Matter in Childbirth?

4/18/12 7:16pm by DoubleXScience
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Women -- from every ethnicity and every socioeconomic background -- deserve respect and dignity and consideration while they're giving birth and access to safe care that provides it. We need a spectrum of choices that are best suited to our situations. Stress and anxiety and separation from the mother at birth are not optimal childbirth outcomes and rarely are necessary for a birth that proceeds normally. Certified nurse midwife-attended births are associated with specific benefits in this regard.  Read more >

What Female Sexual Dysfunction and Vaginal Rejuvenation Have in Common

4/4/12 9:38am by In Bed With Mar...
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I'm not arguing that some women don't have sexual problems that could be improved medically, but a lot of the Female Sexual Dysfunction "symptoms" are just the way women are. Yes, women can take a long time to come, yes, women can take a while to get aroused, and, yes, women get pissed at their mates which, yeah, does affect desire.  Read more >

Do Women Pay More For Health Insurance Than Men?

3/28/12 11:38pm by SorayaChemaly
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A 30-year-old woman pays 31 percent more for health insurance than a man of the same age -- for identical coverage. For 25-year-old women, the gap is even more shocking: for individual healthcare plans (not including maternity coverage) women are charged up to 84 percent more than men. The Affordable Care Act is trying to rectify this example of discrimination, so why are so many women fighting it?  Read more >

BlogHer Participates in White House Roundtable on the Affordable Care Act

3/20/12 9:10pm by Melissa Ford
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Editor's Note, 3/27/12: Melissa finished this post on her trip to the White House Affordable Care Act roundtable last week with a call for you to weigh in and share your story. As the Supreme Court hears arguments on the constitutionality of various aspects of the act this week, we want to keep the BlogHer roundtable going. What's your insurance situation? How do you feel about the legislation? Share your story in the comments below. -- Julie Today, I attended a small roundtable discussion with 11 other women in the Roosevelt room at the White House. We talked about the Affordable Care Act and how it is playing out in the actual lives of women. Leading the discussion were Deputy Chief of Staff, Nancy-Ann DeParle, and Deputy Assistant to the President for Health Policy, Jeanne Lambrew.  Read more >

The Soundtrack of Loss

3/8/12 12:00pm by ShoreBookworm
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Jacqueline was classical music's darling in the 1960's. It seemed there were nothing but good things ahead. Then when she was 26, she began to notice a lack of sensation in her fingers and elsewhere in her body. She continued to play, but experienced more and more difficulty. Eventually, she would be diagnosed with multiple sclerosis. Despite attempts to defy the disease, she played her final public concert at the age of 28, and succumbed 14 years later, at 42.  Read more >

Mixed Match: Film Spotlights the Dire Need for Multiracial Donors

3/8/12 9:16am by Grace Hwang Lynch
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As the mother of two mixed-race kids, I knew that raising multiethnic children would present some challenges. However, I never imagined that serious medical issues could be among them. Thankfully, my own boys are healthy, but other families are not so fortunate. And that’s what the new documentary Mixed Match is shedding light on: the fact that less than 3% of people on the national bone marrow registry are multiethnic – creating dangerously slim odds for survival.  Read more >

Do Sleep Meds Lead to Early Death?

3/6/12 8:01am by theprofhypo
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A study which recently appeared in the British Medical Journal compared 10,500 adults who took hypnotic sleeping pills -- including Ambien, Lunesta and Restoril -- with people who did not. Those who took 18 pills or fewer a year had a 3.5 times increased risk of early death. The risk was five times greater for those who took three or more pills a week. Are findings acurate? Are you at risk?  Read more >

The War Being Waged Against Knowledge and Female Autonomy

3/5/12 8:07pm by avflox
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Rush Limbaugh's so-called apology isn't an apology at all. It's a way to move the limelight away from his evident bias, except he fails when this this bias crops up again in the second paragraph of his statement, in which Limbaugh disregards, once again, the many other uses for contraceptive pills, and dismisses women's concerns outright as something not worthy of being heard by the government.  Read more >

10 Tips To Help You Find The Right Doctor

1/18/12 1:24am by Lissa Rankin
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If you weren't getting what you needed from your massage therapist, hairdresser, or yoga instructor, you would find someone else, right? Why should your doctor be any different? And yet, your doctor is even more important. This is serious stuff we're talking about here.  Read more >

Becoming the Best ME Ever!

1/13/12 10:30am by littlebitfunky
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Hello again friends. Part two to my series with Blogher and Best Buy will be once a week journal entries for the Inspiration to Fitness program, where I will talk about my progress and goals and how much I love/hate all the exercising I have been doing. Once again...it will be ALL me and my opinions and my very own thoughts and feelings on it all.  If you have any questions, send me an email I will do my best to help.  Read more >