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Mammograms, Pap Tests, and Evidence-Based Medicine by Lyn S. Patient Expert

Posted in: Blog Posts in Women's Health Personal Posts From Lyn Among the most annoying features of living in the information age is that the information keeps changing.Those pesky terrorist alert color codesfrom Ho ... Read on »

Sperm Donors - One More Thing Going Rogue by Lyn S. Patient Expert

Posted in: Blog Posts in Women's Health It used to be when you wanted to get pregnant using a sperm donor you went to a sperm bank or clinic where FDA regulations mandated that the sperm you were offered was genetic ... Read on »

"General Hospital" Most Violent Show on TV by Lyn S. Patient Expert

Posted in: Blog Posts in Women's Health Culture maven Willa Paskin takes on the venerable daytime soap "General Hospital" in this intelligent rant for doubleX. Here's the gist: "...these two mobsters ... Read on »

Mammogram Guideline Change - What? by Lyn S. Patient Expert

Posted in: Blog Posts in Women's Health There's going to be a lot of ink and chatter about the new official guidelines for breast cancer screening, but an initial survey pointed WNL to this outstanding entry by blog ... Read on »

Why Not Raise Some Chickens? by Lyn S. Patient Expert

Posted in: Blog Posts in Women's Health Check out Susan Orlean giving us a tour of her modest city-girl raises chickens effort in conjunction with an article in The New Yorker on the same subject. In passing, she m ... Read on »

Intrauterine Insemination - Reasons Not To Do It. by Lyn S. Patient Expert

Posted in: Blog Posts in Women's Health The New York Times interviewed several highly respected fertility doctors to get the low-down on intrauterine insemination, the method of getting pregnant most women use befor ... Read on »

What Happens to Your Facebook Profile When You Die? by Lyn S. Patient Expert

Posted in: Blog Posts in Women's Health This is one of those questions you hopefully won't need to know about, and of course if it's YOU that dies you won't be caring what happens to your Facebook profile anyway. T ... Read on »

What's Behind the Anti-Vaccine Movement by Lyn S. Patient Expert

Posted in: Blog Posts in Women's Health Wired Magazine's article "An Epidemic of Fear: How Panicked Parents Skipping Shots Endangers Us All" covers a lot of ground in one place - which is why WNL singles i ... Read on »

All You Need to Know About Methamphetamines by Lyn S. Patient Expert

Posted in: Blog Posts in Women's Health For a factual and myth-free source of information on all things methamphetamine, look to this site powered by The National Institute on Drug Abuse, a division of The National ... Read on »

Hotels That Help You Cheat by Lyn S. Patient Expert

Posted in: Blog Posts in Women's Health This article by Sara Reistad-Long at The Daily Beast explains what you may have suspected, and all men seem to know instinctively, about hotels and restaurants - they spend a ... Read on »

Rihanna's Story Just Part of Domestic Violence by Lyn S. Patient Expert

Posted in: Blog Posts in Women's Health Major media outlets, including CNN, got to hear from Rihanna this week about the violence that brought both her and boyfriend Chris Brown into the headlines and ultimately int ... Read on »

Why No Women Umpires in Baseball? by Lyn S. Patient Expert

Posted in: Blog Posts in Women's Health Now that baseball season is over it's time to ask a rude question about women in baseball, like where are they? Samantha Henning, writing for doubleX, gets the answers from c ... Read on »

Finally, A Readable History of Feminism by Lyn S. Patient Expert

Posted in: Blog Posts in Women's Health The book is "When Everything Changed: The Amazing Journey of American Women from 1960 to the Present " by NYT columnist Gail Collins, who answers questions and share ... Read on »

Latest Trends in Alimony by Lyn S. Patient Expert

Posted in: Blog Posts in Women's Health Jennifer Levitz takes a look for The Wall Street Journal at the current state of alimony laws around the US, and the moves to modify statutes that were established in the 1960 ... Read on »

Blood Test Predicts MS Severity Up Front by Lyn S. Patient Expert

Posted in: Blog Posts in Women's Health One of the many frustrating things about multiple sclerosis is that a diagnosis doesn't tell patient or doctor anything about the possible course of the disease. This Times O ... Read on »

Costco Now Accepts Food Stamps by Lyn S. Patient Expert

Posted in: Blog Posts in Women's Health Finally, after years of assuming that people who could afford a membership to Costco would not also be users of food stamps, Costco's management has changed their minds and th ... Read on »

The Obamas' Marriage by Lyn S. Patient Expert

Posted in: Blog Posts in Women's Health If you are interested in marriage - how it works and how it doesn't - you'll find this long NYT look at Michelle and Barack Obama's 17-year marriage a good read. They are uni ... Read on »

HPV Vaccinations - Why Girls, Not Boys? by Lyn S. Patient Expert

Posted in: Blog Posts in Women's Health You've probably seen TV commercials explaining and promoting the relatively new vaccination for HPV (human papilloma virus), Gardasil, to protect young girls from cervical, vu ... Read on »

Woman Writer on LateNite TV - What's That Like? by Lyn S. Patient Expert

Posted in: Blog Posts in Women's Health Nell Scovell is the only woman who can answer that question since there aren't any women writing for any of the late night shows. In this article for Vanity Fair, she explain ... Read on »

Polanski's Victim Reinterpreted as Trivial by Lyn S. Patient Expert

Posted in: Blog Posts in Women's Health This may be the most important coverage yet of director Roman Polanski's date with justice for his 1977 sexual predation of 13-year-old Samantha Gailey. This LA Times article ... Read on »

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