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High Schooler Finds New Source for Cancer Drug

By Helen Silvis ● Arts & Culture ● August 26, 2002

A high school student may well have discovered something that has been eluding the medical research community for years: a plentiful, inexpensive source of the anti-cancer drug Taxol. Also, poll results shows support for ERA.

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Drug Maker Should Take Chill Pill

By Sheila Gibbons ● Uncategorized ● August 21, 2002

In the first of our monthly columns on media, Sheila Gibbons dissects coverage of the government’s recent decision to end its study of the possible benefits of hormone replacement therapy. She finds that the media did its job well.

Pharmacies New Reproductive Rights Battleground

By Regan Good ● Health & Science ● August 13, 2002

The local drugstore might be the newest battlefield for anti-abortion activists who want “conscience clauses” in place that would allow pharmacists to refuse to dispense prescription emergency contraception if they have religious or moral objections.

Women’s Care Was Based on Assumptions, Not Science

By Jo Applebaum ● Uncategorized ● July 17, 2002

The recent end of the study of the effects of hormone replacement therapy raises serious questions about how drugs are approved, promoted and prescribed. The author argues it should also be the end of assumption-based medicine.

Marketing Mother’s Little Helper

By Jin In ● Health & Science ● June 23, 2002

Pharmaceutical companies are now allowed to advertise prescription drugs directly to consumers; women are their primary market. Moreover, the ads can urge consumers to take the drug for problems unrelated to their approved usage.

Drug Industry Seeks Viagra-Like Remedy for Women

By Sonia Shah ● Health & Science ● July 24, 2001

Citing near-epidemic levels of female sexual problems, drug companies are rushing to find Viagra’s equivalent in sales of creams, gels, nasal sprays and even a remote-controlled orgasm implant. Critics see the medicalization of human sexuality.

Bush Gives Taliban $10 Million To Fight Opium

By Womens Enews Staff ● Uncategorized ● May 26, 2001

Lacking Opium Money, Afghans Selling Daughters

By WeNews Staff ● Arts & Culture ● February 26, 2001

(WOMENSENEWS)–The ban on growing opium poppies has left impoverished Afghan farmers destitute and they are trading, selling and marrying off daughters to repay their debts and buy food, according to U.N. and Taliban officials.

The ban imposed by the fundamentalist Taliban movement that controls most of the country has meant there was no harvest of the poppies, a major source of credit and income for farmers in the war-torn country. Coupled with a devastating drought, the ban has resulted in desperate choices, according to The Guardian in London.

Prozac by Any Other Name Is Still a Powerful Drug

By no-author ● Arts & Culture ● December 11, 2000