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A New Way to Subscribe to Iconic Woman

Posted by Nicholas Batik

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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Mr. Letterman, Misogyny Is NEVER, EVER, Funny

Posted by H. Sandra Chevalier-Batik

I was deeply disappointed and disturbed about Arianna Huffington’s comment that Palin was displaying “manufactured outrage” over Letterman’s disgusting sex jokes. Women protect their young, period. If Letterman had used the exact same joke, but featured Michelle Obama and Malia, instead of Palin and Willow. Obama’s outrage would be no more manufactured than Palin’s. CBS would be carrying the has-been, unfunny man out of the Ed Sullivan Theater on his shield, to be interned, after a very short, private service, in the general vicinity of New Jersey’s Meadowlands. Women protect their young, period.

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Science Experiment Likely To End Up on Your Dinner Table

Posted by H. Sandra Chevalier-Batik

FDA Releases Draft Guidance on Regulation of Genetically Engineered Animals Printer-friendly PDF (420 KB) On this page: Genetic Engineering Benefits of GE Animals GE Animals Regulated Under New Animal Drug Provisions The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is inviting the public to comment on draft guidance that discusses FDA’s approach to regulating genetically engineered (GE) [...]

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Researchers Question Wide Use of HPV Vaccines

Posted by H. Sandra Chevalier-Batik

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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Skip The Drugs…Change Your Food Sources

Posted by H. Sandra Chevalier-Batik

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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PTA Pimps School Girls

Posted by H. Sandra Chevalier-Batik

Are Bikini-Clad Nubiles Really the Answer to School Budget Shortfalls It’s Summer: Time to Clean Up the Bikini Car Wash By Kimberly Gadette – 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)–Ah, the sights of summer: movie [...]

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My Girl Died As ‘Guinea Pig’ For Gardasil®

Posted by H. Sandra Chevalier-Batik

In a previous Inconvenient Woman Blog entry we noted the death of 17 year old Jessica Ericzon, “an all-American teenager,” whose tragic death has been tied to the Merck vaccine Gardasil®. Jefferson County Medical Examiner Samuel Livingstone, reported Jessie’s death to the federal Vaccine Adverse Events Reporting System. Her family started the Jessica Ericzon Memorial [...]

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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 Information FDA regulates dietary supplements under [...]

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What is the Dietary Supplement Health and Education Act (DSHEA)?

Posted by H. Sandra Chevalier-Batik

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. [...]

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FDA 101:

Posted by H. Sandra Chevalier-Batik

How to Use the Consumer Complaint System and MedWatch On this page: Consumer Complaint Reporting Reporting Problems Can Spur Action MedWatch Reporting How to Report to MedWatch Problems to Report to MedWatch Reporting Emergencies FDA Consumer Complaint Coordinators (regions and telephone numbers) If you have a complaint about a product regulated by the Food and [...]

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