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Double Dose: Bed Commercial Draws Praise from Home Birth Activists; Meet Disney’s New Princess; $10 million if You Can Transform Health Care; Quiverfull Movement Takes Root …

By Christine Cupaiuolo — April 20, 2009

Double Dose: Botox for Bridesmaids; Hospitals Work to Create Healthier Spaces; California Bans Trans Fats; McCain’s War on Women; Gaming’s “Fat Princess” …

By Christine Cupaiuolo — July 26, 2008

Double Dose: Concerns Over HPV Vaccines; HHS’ Latest Contraception/Conscience Proposal; The Future of Personalized Medicine; Spinach With a Side of Radiation; WALL*E, a Lesbian Love Story …

By Christine Cupaiuolo — August 23, 2008

Double Dose: Disparities in Health Care; Legal Ramifications of Same-Sex Marriage; On Becoming a Woman; Abstinence-Only Supporters Push On; Sexually Harassed? Raise Your Hand

By Christine Cupaiuolo — June 8, 2008

Double Dose: Fat is Not a Death Sentence; Google AdWords Prohibits Abortion Ads; Survey: Sex After Kids; What Would Buffy Do?

By Christine Cupaiuolo — July 7, 2009

Double Dose: Feminism Quotes of the Week; Dr. Phil & Home Birth; The Season for Viewing Fat People; Domestic Abuse and Deportation; Cheering for the Safety of Cheerleaders …

By Christine Cupaiuolo — September 13, 2008

Double Dose: Health Insurance Shifts from Employer-Based to Individual Market; Pharmacy Refuses to Sell Birth Control, and in Virginia, That’s OK; “Free to Be You and Me” Turns 35; 2009 Sheroes; Sexy Costumes …

By Christine Cupaiuolo — October 25, 2008

Double Dose: Judy Norsigian on OBOS Book Tour; Global Health Summit; Being a Single Mother in China; Health Database Ignores Key Word: “Abortion”; and More ….

By Christine Cupaiuolo — April 5, 2008

Double Dose: Maternal Deaths on the Rise; Surge of Low-Dose Hormones; Demand Not Met for Prenatal Care; and Hot Chicks and Cancer

By Christine Cupaiuolo — September 4, 2007

Double Dose: Meet Dr. Drug Rep; The A-Word and Hollywood (Again); The Business of Being Born; World AIDS Day

By Christine Cupaiuolo — December 2, 2007

Double Dose: More Proof Virginity Pledges Don’t Work; Genetic Testing and Ambiguity; Cut Health Care Costs, Not Care; The Year in Medicine …

By Christine Cupaiuolo — January 3, 2009

Double Dose: New Book on Drugs Used to Control Height; America Rejoins Global Reproductive Policy Discussion; Film Critics Write off Rape; The Peeps Factor …

By Christine Cupaiuolo — April 13, 2009

Double Dose: New Books on Reproduction, Christian Patriarchy; Michelle Obama’s Garden; The Economy’s Impact on Women; “Friday Night Lights” Scores With Sex Talk …

By Christine Cupaiuolo — March 28, 2009

Double Dose: New Study on Caffeine and Pregnancy; “Drive-By” Mastectomies; The Pill Protects Against Cancer; Treating Aging Like a Disease

By Christine Cupaiuolo — January 27, 2008

Double Dose: NOW to Elect New President; Celebrity Weight Battles & Alternative “Lessons From the Fat-O-Sphere”; “Nurse Jackie” Appalls Some Nurses; Barbara Ehrenreich on the Invisible Poor …

By Christine Cupaiuolo — June 15, 2009

Double Dose: Photos of Nursing Babies Deleted by Facebook; Few LGBT Characters on TV; New Studies on Black Women and Maternal Health

By Christine Cupaiuolo — September 30, 2007

Double Dose: Sex Trafficking Doesn’t Make Discussion Cut; Sarah Palin and the Rape Kits; Congress Approves Mental Health Parity Legislation; Why Don’t the Candidates Speak Out on HIV?; A Finanical Incentive to Keep Poor Women from Having Children …

By Christine Cupaiuolo — September 27, 2008

Double Dose: Sexism in Film and Culture; Postpartum Depression Law Evaluated in N.J.; Breast Cancer Detection Depends on Doctor

By Christine Cupaiuolo — December 16, 2007

Double Dose: The New Film Genre: Fertility Films; D.C. Sets Up a Place to Pump; The Business of Bacteria; Culture Affects How Teen Girls See Harassment …

By Christine Cupaiuolo — May 18, 2008

Double Dose: The Value of Maternal Employment, a U.S. Presidential Candidate and Her Breasts, More on Film and the Missing A-Word, and Empowered Women on TV: That’s So Hot!

By Christine Cupaiuolo — July 23, 2007

Double Dose: Top Health Stories, Survey on Global Health Priorities and the Continuation of Putting Politics Before Science

By Christine Cupaiuolo — December 29, 2007

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