Canada’s Society of Obstetricians and Gynecologists wants to curb Caesarean section births, up by 17 percent from 1993 and at an all-time high with more than 25 percent of women undergoing the procedure, the Toronto Star reported June 26. The increase is due to changing demographics, rising obesity rates and fear of malpractice lawsuits. A [...]
Read, assimilate, form an opinion and take action! Inconvenient Women take the time to learn what is out there and how it might effect them and their families. Overview Overview About the Office of Nutritional Products, Labeling, and Dietary Supplements FDA-DSFL Electronic Newsletter | Recent Announcements | Frequently Requested Information FDA regulates dietary supplements under [...]
Inconvenient Women PAY ATTENTION As Big Phama lobbies “Your” Congressional representatives to “control” the American public’s access to natural, “food-based” supplements it is probably a good thing to review the “LAW” that has been in place since 1994. Recently Congress has shown an alarming propensity to write new law instead of adequately enforcing existing legislation. [...]
Adolescent girls and young women were found by a U.S. study to put on extra weight when they recreationally use the Internet more than average, do not get enough sleep, and drink a lot of alcohol. American medical researcher Catherine Berkey and colleagues from Harvard Medical School (Boston, Massachusetts, U.S.A.), the Channing Laboratory, Department of [...]
Help Protect Health Freedom Today! Since when has natural health been a crime? As if the present war on natural health alternatives wasn’t enough, GlaxoSmithKline Consumer Healthcare (GSK), is now petitioning the FDA to determine that dietary supplements claiming to promote, assist or otherwise help with any aspect of weight loss are “disease claims,” and [...]
Don’t sleep less than 6 hours or more than 9 A new U.S. study shows that postmenopausal women had increased risk of strokes if they sleep less than six hours a night or more than nine hours. The research study was led by American epidemiologist Jiu-Chiuan Chen, an assistant professor at the University of North [...]
Could It Be? Did Hollywood Execs Get The Memo? By Marjorie Rosen – WeNews commentator Editor’s Note: The following is a commentary. The opinions expressed are those of the author and not necessarily the views of Women’s Enews. (WOMENSENEWS)–Could it be that this season will turn out to be the Summer of Women, on screen, [...]
FDA News FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE May 28, 2008 Media Inquiries: Susan Cruzan, 301-827-6242 Consumer Inquiries: 888-INFO-FDA FDA Proposes New Rule to Provide Updated Information on the Use of Prescription Drugs and Biological Products during Pregnancy and Breast-feeding The U.S. Food and Drug Administration today proposed major revisions to the physician labeling for prescription drugs (including [...]
As donated eggs run low for infertile couples in Israel, a push is on to widen the ranks of possible donors, Brenda Gazzar reports today. But one of the country’s oldest women’s rights groups fears the possibility of financial exploitation and wants tighter oversight. By Brenda Gazzar – WeNews correspondent JERUSALEM (WOMENSENEWS)–Ofra Balaban knows how [...]
Innocent ‘Kissing’ Book Offers Date-Rape Tutorial By Kristen Tsetsi – WeNews commentator Editor’s Note: The following is a commentary. The opinions expressed are those of the author and not necessarily the views of Women’s Enews. (WOMENSENEWS)–Almost 70 percent of all teens who had sex by age 14 have gone through one or more types of [...]
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