Why we don't have better birth control: politics and profits impede contraceptive research

Article Abstract:

Women do not have many more contraceptive choices than they had in the 1960s because of the political activities of anti-abortion activists, government cutbacks in research and drug manufacturers' fears of product liability lawsuits. More research should be encouraged.

Publisher: Conde Nast Publications, Inc.
Publication Name: Glamour
Subject: Health
ISSN: 0017-0747
Year: 1996
Research, Pro-life movement, Contraceptives

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When massage is medicine

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Massage can be therapeutic as well as relaxing. Infants with low birth weight, insomniacs, disturbed children and others have been known to benefit from massage. Research results of professor of psychology, pediatrics and psychiatry Tiffany Field are discussed.

Author: Hall, Stephen S.
Publisher: Conde Nast Publications, Inc.
Publication Name: Glamour
Subject: Health
ISSN: 0017-0747
Year: 1995
Health aspects, Massage for children, Children, Massage

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Medicine vs. politics

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A federal moratorium does not allow the use of fetal tissues obtained from abortions in research projects because women might more easily choose to have an abortion. Fetal tissue transplantation provides excellent treatment for several diseases.

Publisher: Conde Nast Publications, Inc.
Publication Name: Glamour
Subject: Health
ISSN: 0017-0747
Year: 1992
Fetal tissues, Fetal tissue transplantation

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