Tag Archives: Health
A ‘hilarious’ video: The ‘double day’ and symptoms of a heart attack in women
TweetAs I’m sure many of you have already seen, recent public health campaigns are working towards enhancing knowledge of how women specifically experience heart attack symptoms. Up until this point, public health campaigns have focused largely on how heart attack symptoms manifest in men, as scientific research more often involves men as participants and thus researchers tend to simply generalize findings [...]
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How the pro-life movement is winning the war on women
TweetThe debate over abortion needs to change. The pro-life movement has painted pro-choice activists as pro-abortion murderers for decades. This isn’t new. What is new is the tactics. In the 1990s, pro-lifers picketed abortion clinics and threatened to assassinate doctors. Now, they’re using the political process to pass legislation that will effectively destroy women’s reproductive [...]
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“She Had a Heartbeat Too”: The Tragic Death of Savita Halappanavar in an Irish Hospital
TweetCross-posted from On The Issues Magazine. By Ann Rossiter, On the Issues Special Correspondent in Dublin, Ireland. A 17-weeks pregnant woman with severe back pain is admitted to a hospital in the west of Ireland. After an examination, she is told that her cervix is fully dilated; her amniotic fluid leaking. Her immature fetus will not [...]
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“Gift From God” or the Consequence of Human Free Will?
TweetI am a woman who was a victim of sexual assault. I removed this first line from my article numerous times because eradicating it gave me a tiny sense of control over a powerless situation. Rationality overruled emotion, but even as my trembling hands move across the keyboard, I have the scroll bar positioned so [...]
Man Can Cook: Michael Pollan, The Food Movement and Feminism 101