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A New Way to Subscribe to Iconic Woman

July 9, 2009 – 11:19 am

You can now add a calendar reminder to pretty much any popular website calendar or application at http://iconicwoman.com/?ical

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By Nicholas Batik | Posted in Take Action! | Comments (0)

N.Y. Suffragists Took the 14th to Polling Booths

November 5, 2008 – 8:32 am

Yes We Did… Left, right, or independent — yesterday’s election was a paradigm shift of tectonic proportion. Millions of women joined together, gave time, talent and treasure and changed the out come of thousands of local, state and national elections. The millions of women who cast their votes yesterday did so under the hard-won ‘Grace’ [...]

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By H. Sandra Chevalier-Batik | Posted in Agents of Change | Comments (0)

Are You A Sister?

October 9, 2008 – 8:56 am

Please take the time to visit the Sister Study web site. The Sister Study is the only long-term study of women aged 35-74 whose sister had breast cancer.  It is a national study to learn how environment and genes affect the chances of getting breast cancer.  A total of 50,000 women will join the effort [...]

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By H. Sandra Chevalier-Batik | Posted in Breast Cancer | Comments (0)

EPA Unlikely to Limit Rocket Fuel in Your Tap Water

October 1, 2008 – 11:38 pm

Some folks refer to their morning coffee as “Rocket Fuel.” If they are making their coffee with tap water, they may be speaking literally, not figuratively. They just don’t know it. The Environmental Protection Agency is poised to rule that it will not set a drinking-water safety standard for perchlorate. This component of rocket fuel [...]

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By H. Sandra Chevalier-Batik | Posted in Follow The Money | Comments (0)

Twice as many women die from stroke every year than from breast cancer

September 25, 2008 – 9:19 am

Overall, stroke is this country’s third-leading killer. About 700,000 Americans will have one this year, according to the American Stroke Association. But 55-percent of all strokes and 60-percent of stroke deaths occur in women. About 100,000 women die annually of stroke, 40,000 more than the number of men who die from it. The fact that [...]

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By H. Sandra Chevalier-Batik | Posted in Stroke | Comments (0)

Science Experiment Likely To End Up on Your Dinner Table

September 18, 2008 – 10:22 am

FDA Releases Draft Guidance on Regulation of Genetically Engineered Animals Printer-friendly PDF (420 KB) On this page: Genetic Engineering Benefits of GE Animals GE Animals Regulated Under New Animal Drug Provisions The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is inviting the public to comment on draft guidance that discusses FDA’s approach to regulating genetically engineered (GE) [...]

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By H. Sandra Chevalier-Batik | Posted in FDA Failure To Protect, Follow The Money, Proactive Nutrition, Take Action!, Your Body/Your Self | Comments (0)

FDA Unveils List of 20 Drugs In Side-Effect Probes

September 6, 2008 – 8:15 am

Goal Is to Provide Signs of Possibility Of Adverse Effects By JARED A. FAVOLE WSJ.com, September 5, 2008 8:07 p.m. WASHINGTON — The Food and Drug Administration on Friday unveiled a report listing 20 drugs that the agency is investigating for potential side effects, as part of a new policy to warn patients and health-care [...]

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By H. Sandra Chevalier-Batik | Posted in Adverse Event Reporting System | Comments (0)

Safe, Cost Effective PAP Test or Gardasil®

August 26, 2008 – 9:54 am

Researchers and public health officials are FINALLY waking up, and stepping up, to ask tough questions about the cost effectiveness of administering a very expensive, and not thoroughly vetted vaccine to every girl and young woman in the free world. Is the use of Gardasil® as a preventive measure against cervical cancer, the correct utilization [...]

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By H. Sandra Chevalier-Batik | Posted in PAP Test | Comments (0)

Researchers Question Wide Use of HPV Vaccines

August 21, 2008 – 1:04 pm

FINALLY! In June of 2006, my writing partner, Leslie Botha, and I, started writing articles cautioning women against the use of Gardasil® for girls and young women. We cited the limited nature of the clinical trials (the number, and ages of women tested) and the length of time from the clinical trials and the FDA [...]

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By H. Sandra Chevalier-Batik | Posted in Big Pharma Watch, Cancer Research, Cervical Cancer, FDA Clinical Trials, FDA Failure To Protect, Follow The Money, HPV Infection, HPV Vaccine, Take Action! | Comments (0)

Skip The Drugs…Change Your Food Sources

August 21, 2008 – 10:14 am

Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) I was doing some research for a fiend whose child had just been “diagnosed” Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) by a school nurse who suggested drug therapy. My first thought was a Kindergarten version of ‘One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest’…dazed and compliant preschoolers. In the past decade, ADHD, ”Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder, [...]

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By H. Sandra Chevalier-Batik | Posted in Big Pharma Watch, Follow The Money, Prescription Drug Side Effects, Proactive Nutrition, Take Action! | Comments (0)
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