Health & Science

Reproductive Health, Mental Health, Abortion, Black Maternal Health, Contraception

‘Our Bodies, Ourselves’: Going, Going, Gone Global

By Molly Ginty ● Arts & Culture ● September 14, 2004

“Our Bodies, Ourselves” is more than ever becoming the basic text for women across the globe. Translators of the free-thinking U.S. text are expanding its reach from Argentina to Turkey and adapting it to cultural boundaries.

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Support Groups for Women with HIV Ease Isolation

By Robin Hindery ● Health & Science ● August 24, 2004

From Internet chat rooms to small-town community centers, HIV/AIDS support groups for women are challenging the notion of what it means to be infected with the virus and are working to combat the often painful isolation of victims.

Lee Tackles Abstinence-Only Approach to AIDS

By Rebecca Vesely ● Health & Science ● July 18, 2004

Barbara Lee, who cast the only House vote against giving the president unchecked power against Sept. 11 perpetrators, is standing out again. At an AIDS forum attended by no other member of Congress, she tackled the White House’s abstinence-only approach.

U.S. Doc’s Specialty Is Women with Cut Genitals

By Elizabeth Mehren ● Health & Science ● June 7, 2004

Women who have undergone female genital mutilation can be made to feel like clinical curiosities. But at the African Women’s Health Center at Boston’s Brigham and Women’s Hospital, treatment is delivered with cultural understanding.

Our Bodies, Ourselves Turns 35 Today

By Molly Ginty ● Health & Science ● May 4, 2004

Thirty-five years after their first meeting, the women who created Our Bodies, Ourselves–the popular reference that allowed women to take health information into their own homes–reflect on how their work shaped the women’s health movement.

Activists Push for Safer Ingredients in Makeup

By Molly Ginty ● Arts & Culture ● April 30, 2004

A compound in cosmetics products has been banned by the European Union for its links to cancer and fetal deformities. U.S. health advocates are pushing for a similar ban here and challenging companies in the $29 billion industry to comply by May 3.

Pro-Choice March Largest in History

By Allison Stevens ● Health & Science ● April 26, 2004

More than a million pro-choice demonstrators turned out for The March for Women’s Lives, making it a historic day, according to organizers. Speakers urged marchers to elect politicians who will safeguard women’s health and reproductive rights.

Pro-Choice Advocates Converge on Capital

By Allison Stevens ● Health & Science ● April 25, 2004

The March for Women’s Lives, the first national pro-choice demonstration since 1992, is taking place today in Washington. Look here for nonstop coverage of the election-year demonstration from reporters and photographers with Women’s eNews.

Pro-Choice Advocates Converge on Capital Today

By Allison Stevens ● Health & Science ● April 25, 2004

The March for Women’s Lives, the first national pro-choice demonstration since 1992, is taking place today in Washington. Look here for nonstop coverage of the election-year demonstration from reporters and photographers with Women’s eNews.

College Students Offer Teens Frank Talk on Trauma

By Amy DePaul ● Arts & Culture ● April 20, 2004

In a promising mental-health approach, female students at two universities are visiting high schools and talking to female teens about their personal experiences with depression, eating disorders and sexual assault.