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• Midwifery-led care, the AMA, and the Cochrane Collaboration: who do you believe?

  By lauredhel on 2008-10-12 • ( 6 )

  The Australian Medical Association on midwifery-led care in maternity services, September 2008: “[…] midwifery services were expanded without any reference to the medical profession and without any clear evidence base around the impact on safety and clinical outcomes for patients…. Read More ›

• Nanofic meme: Do you remember…?

  By lauredhel on 2008-10-12 • ( 23 )

  I know, I know, it’s a meme, but it is a fun, creative and participatory one. It’s been going around livejournal lately. If you read this, if your eyes are passing over this right now,(even if we don’t speak often… Read More ›

• Mount Franklin Breast Cancer ads. Let’s start a Brown Colon Cancer Awareness campaign.

  By lauredhel on 2008-10-11 • ( 37 )

  Oh, for fuck’s sake. The latest in the Mmm, Sexy Pink Breast Cancer! Save The Boobies Awareness sweepstakes comes from Mount Franklin, purveyors of pointless, wasteful, plastic-ridden, environmentally unfriendly bottled water. They’ve been doing the pink lids for a while,… Read More ›

• Otterday! And open thread

  By lauredhel on 2008-10-11 • ( 23 )

  These bronze otters were snapped by Jason Pratt on flickr, at the Pittsburgh Zoo. Please feel free to use this thread to natter about anything your heart desires. Is there anything great happening in your life? Anything you want to… Read More ›

• Quick Hit: Weekend Election Watch

  By tigtog on 2008-10-11 • ( 7 )

  Teresa Nielsen Hayden at Making Light sums up how frothingly the extreme right wing blogosphere is reacting to the polls for the McCain campaign: The Corner goes round the bend Meanwhile, as I say, The Corner and its cronies continue… Read More ›

• Friday Hoyden: reading in public

  By tigtog on 2008-10-10 • ( 59 )

  How many of you always carry a book to read? Do you find that your commute time is actually the time you can have to yourself to get that reading done? Is your ideal lunch-hour finding a park bench all… Read More ›

• Victorian upper house votes on decriminalising abortion today

  By tigtog on 2008-10-10 • ( 10 )

  Legislation to remove abortion from the Crimes Act in Victoria (abortion will still be regulated under the Health Act) has provoked hours of debate in the upper house of the Victorian State Parliament leading up to a conscience vote. The… Read More ›

• Punishing the poor

  By tigtog on 2008-10-10

  More fuckwittery from the Bush administration regarding reproductive health aid to Africa. In some parts of Africa, a woman now has a 1-in-10 risk of dying in childbirth. The idea that U.S. policy may increase that toll is infuriating. via… Read More ›

• Passive voice watch: invisible rapist in Sussex

  By lauredhel on 2008-10-09 • ( 12 )

  The Beeb has got a nasty case of the Invisible Rapists today, in this report: “Teenager is raped in club toilets”. A 19-year-old woman was raped in the men’s toilets in a nightclub, Sussex Police revealed. The teenager was attacked… Read More ›

• Ladies’ Handbook: On quacks, hormones, abstinence, and the sexual double standard

  By lauredhel on 2008-10-09 • ( 10 )

  Another instalment in the Ladies’ Handbook series! The initial post is here. This instalment is part three of Chapter IV, “Sex Physiology and Hygiene”. (Part One, Part Two, and Part Three.) But, again, in youth as in childhood; and, indeed,… Read More ›

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