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Dietary Supplements…Part Duex

Posted by H. Sandra Chevalier-Batik

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 […]

Ova Donations Spur Ethical Debate in Israel

Posted by H. Sandra Chevalier-Batik

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 important a […]

Too old for the pill?

Posted by H. Sandra Chevalier-Batik

As middle years near, women may need to rethink contraceptive choices
If you’re approaching the middle years of your life, it might be time to review your choice of contraceptives. But don’t be too hasty in putting them away for good.
Middle-age women and teenagers have the highest rates of unintended pregnancy and abortion in the […]

FDA Admits Dental Mercury Poses Health Risk To Pregnant Women And Children

Posted by H. Sandra Chevalier-Batik

Following the settlement of a lawsuit earlier this week, the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has updated its consumer advice on mercury amalgam to say that it poses health risks to pregnant women, children, and the unborn.
The updated consumer advice, which is in the FDA’s Center for Devices and Radiological Health (CDRH) section of […]

Rethinking Healthcare… Completely

Posted by H. Sandra Chevalier-Batik

from the about-time dept of The Techdirt Insight Community
A few months back, after meeting UCLA professor David Levine at the Cato Institute conference on copyrights, I read his book, Against Intellectual Monopoly (actually a large part of it I read on the flight home from that trip). Of particular interest to me was chapter 9, […]