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Three Book Reviews: Reading About Women's Experiences of Breast Cancer
THREE BOOK REVIEWS naked imperfection: a memoir by Gillian Deacon, Penguin Canada, 2014 -...
Short of breath: For Canadian women, COPD deaths surpass those from breast cancer
By Ann Silversides When Irene Donaldson became anxious about her persistent dry cough and the “...
Book Review: Committed to the Sane Asylum
BOOK REVIEW Committed to the Sane Asylum: Narratives on Mental Wellness and Healing by Susan...
Film Review: Oppressed Majority
FILM REVIEW Oppressed Majority (Majorité Opprimée), directed by Eléonore Pourriat, 2010 Review by...
Do you want to know your ‘body burden’?
Measuring the chemicals within through biomonitoring By Dolon Chakravartty and Robyn Lee We are...
Book Review: Sweetening the Pill or How We Got Hooked on Hormonal Birth Control
BOOK REVIEW Sweetening the Pill or How We Got Hooked on Hormonal Birth Control by Holly Grigg-Spall...
The Governance gap in assisted human reproduction
By Alana Cattapan, Margrit Eichler & Lorna Weir Eighteen feminist scholars and activists met on...
Book Review: New Directions in Sex Therapy: Innovations and Alternatives
BOOK REVIEW New Directions in Sex Therapy: Innovations and Alternatives edited by Peggy J....
Uncharted territory
Exploring how women’s experiences are documented in psychiatric settings By Jane Shulman It started...
No quick fix
A story of DIY recovery from psychiatric drugs and misdiagnosis By Kate Malachite I am writing this...
Understanding fibromyalgia
“I have Fibromyalgia Syndrome and was diagnosed when I was 22, over 12 years ago, but few people...
Living with fibro
By Adrienne Kitchin Having fibromyalgia hurts. All over. All the time. But it is not only a...
Book Review: Seeking Sickness: Medical Screening and the Misguided Hunt for Disease
BOOK REVIEW Seeking Sickness: Medical Screening and the Misguided Hunt for Disease by Alan Cassels...
Diane-35: Reconsidering the risks
By Holly Grigg-Spall A young woman admires her flawless skin in her bathroom mirror; smiling to...
Maria Barile (1953-2013)
Maria Barile (Photo: RAPLIQ)   At the CWHN, we were deeply saddened to learn of the...
Getting ahead of migraine
Exploring migraine experiences and approaches to treatment   Writer Mary-Louise Leidl...
Book review: Vagina: A New Biography
BOOK REVIEW Vagina: A New Biography by Naomi Wolf. New York: Harper Collins, 2012. Review by...
HPV vaccine: why aren’t Canadians buying in?
By Lyba Spring In March 2007, the Government of Canada allocated $300 million over three years to...
Book Review - Becoming Trauma Informed
BOOK REVIEW Becoming Trauma Informed, edited by Nancy Poole and Lorraine Greaves, Centre for...
INTERdependence
By Abby Lippman Jane Brody wrote recently in her New York Times blog about "staying independent in...
Racism: A threat to women’s health
International Day for the Elimination of Racial Discrimination – March 21 Racism: A Threat to Women...
Sexy girls: Too much too soon?
By Lyba Spring I don’t think I was more than six years old in the 1950s when, with my parents’...
Book Review - Dangerous Pregnancies: Mothers, Disabilities, and Abortion in Modern America
BOOK REVIEW Dangerous Pregnancies: Mothers, Disabilities, and Abortion in Modern America by Leslie...
CIHR-funded initiative aims to bridge media and academic health policy research
EvidenceNetwork.ca a non-partisan resource designed for Canadian health journalists  By...
Does death love menopause?
By Laura Wershler First published by Troy Media Feb. 10, 2012 The Heart and Stroke Foundation of...