Over 9,000 San Francisco hotel workers have been working without a contract since mid-August 2009 at several Hyatt, Hilton, Starwood, and InterContinental Hotels in the San Francisco Bay Area. The workers are being denied affordable health care. After failed negotiations, the workers are taking the step of calling for a boycott of their own workplaces. [...]
Filed under: GLBT, Health, Workplace | Tagged: Boycott, Gay Pride, Hotel Workers, San Franxisco, Unions | 1 Comment »
I had a bad feeling about Chris Christie back in October. In the New Jersey gubernatorial race, Jon Corzine had explicitly used women’s issues as a major platform to separate himself from his opponent. Christie’s record and stances on women’s health seemed so striking, that this method of attack seemed like the best approach. He lost, [...]
Filed under: Abortion, Health, Politics, Reproductive Rights | Tagged: Abortion, Birth Control, chris christie, nj, pro-choice, women, women's health | 2 Comments »
Unbelievable. Somehow, the final health reform bill restored $250 million over five years for states to sponsor abstinence-only programs. This came about even though President Obama’s first two budgets had pulled all federal funding from those programs. Repeatedly, studies have shown that abstinence-only education is ineffective. And the numbers of births, pregnancies and sexually transmitted [...]
Filed under: Education, Health, Politics, Sex | Tagged: abstinence-only education, sex education | 2 Comments »
The National Center for Health Statistics has come out with a report that shows Caesarean births in the United States are at an all-time high. One third of all women now give birth via C-section, a rate that has been increasing over the past decade. The procedure raises risks for both mother and baby, and [...]
Filed under: Health, International, Race/Ethnicity, Reproductive Rights | Tagged: birth, Health Care, Maternal Mortality, pregnancy, women's health | Leave a Comment »
Late last night, the year-long health care debate (that lately has devolved into a circus), has, for all intents & purposes, come to a close. On Tuesday, Obama is expected to sign the bill into law. Of course, there are still potential roadblocks in the way: the Senate must approve reconciliations between its previously passed [...]
Filed under: Abortion, Health, Politics, Reproductive Rights | Tagged: Abortion, Health Care, health care reform, obama, stupak amendment | 3 Comments »
Washington, DC will become the first city in the US to incorporate female condom distribution in its fight against HIV/AIDS. The city’s HIV rates are notoriously high, with rates reaching 3% of the population– higher than West African statistics, and about on par with Kenya and Uganda. The initiative will include providing free female condoms [...]
Filed under: Health, Reproductive Rights, Sex | Tagged: aids, DC, Female Condom, Health, hiv condoms, Sex, washington dc | Leave a Comment »
According to UN program on HIV/Aids (UNAids), the immunodeficiency disease is now the leading cause of death among women of a reproductive age. Violence against women is the leading cause of the spread of this disease in women, with an estimated 70% of women “forced to engage in unprotected sex.” Translation: rape and sexual assault [...]
Filed under: Health, Sex, Violence | Tagged: aids, Health, hiv, Rape, Sex, United Nations, violence against women, women's health | 2 Comments »
A recommendation from the UK’s Royal College of Psychiatrists could lead to warning labels being attached to photoshopped pictures of models. The college cited research evidence that suggests the media’s role in the existence of eating disorders in girls. The group also called for a ban on underweight models in London’s fashion week. The argument [...]
Filed under: Advertising, Health, International, Pop Culture, Race/Ethnicity | Tagged: Advertising, anorexia, beauty, eating disorders, fashion, psychology, sexism | Leave a Comment »
The Utah state House & Senate have both passed versions of a bill that would criminalize a woman’s “intentional, knowing, or reckless act” leading to a miscarriage. The bill uses the terminology “illegal abortion,” and specifically notes that a woman cannot go to prison for a legal abortion. The impetus for such a measure came [...]
Filed under: Abortion, Health, Law, Reproductive Rights | Tagged: Abortion, Law, miscarriage, pregnancy, pro-choice, pro-life, Reproductive Rights, utah | Leave a Comment »
Good news– a study has found that Gardasil protects two other groups, than those it was originally intended for. First, the drug has shown to be 90% effective at protecting older women, ages 24-45, against the cancer-causing HPV virus. Secondly, the drug has promising results for gay men as well, as a trial found that [...]
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