Why Is It Harder To Lose Weight As We Get Older?

Why is it that losing weight seems to be so much harder the older we get?  I don’t really consider myself a dieter, but [...]

Share Your Favorites for a List of Best YA Feminist Books for Ms. Magazine

Ms. Magazine Associate Editor Jessica Stites is apparently soliciting suggestions of great feminist books for young adults for a Best of Feminist YA Fiction List for the Fall issue of Ms. Magazine.
To contribute your suggestions and see the recommendations of others, go to this page at Goodreads – you’ll have to join the site (it’s [...]

The Bechdel Test for Women in Movies

Okay, the concept for this test has apparently been around for 25 years, but I just learned about it, and I thought it was too good to bury in the round-up. The Bechdel Test is a simple one. To pass it, a movie must meet these criteria:
(1) it has to have at least two women [...]

Sunday News Round-Up: *Why* Is It Sunday Already? Edition

Some things that captured my attention or otherwise delighted me this week:
Zen Habits has 20 ways to eliminate stress that I should really pay more attention to.
Via Siobhan at Bringing Health Information to the Community, I learned about DeafMD, which provides health information in video form using American Sign Language. It includes videos on [...]

Is Viagra Putting Women at Higher Risk for STDs and HIV?

Is living in the age of Viagra a good thing or a bad thing for women? When it comes to STDs, it seems to be a bad [...]

When Money Collides with Cancer Treatments: How the Economy is Affecting Health Care Decisions

There is never a good time to find out you have cancer, but now may prove to be the worst time.  With the economy and health [...]

Book Review: “Willing and Unable: Doctors’ Constraints in Abortion Care”

Over at Our Bodies Our Blog, I have a review of Lori Freedman’s new book, “Willing and Unable: Doctors’ Constraints in Abortion Care.” I really enjoyed the book as it covered aspects of the provider equation of abortion access that I haven’t thought much about until reading it.
The topic of the book – the [...]

Sunday News Round-Up: Three Videos, One Post Edition

A few things that caught my eye this week:
Heather at Scarleteen is inviting people to participate in a new series in which people of two generations discuss their experiences, such as of teen motherhood, being trans, lesbian, gay, bisexual, intersex, HIV positive, or asexual, abortion, surviving rape and sexual abuse, and other topics listed here. [...]

Some Recent C-SPAN Offerings of Interest to Librarians and Book Lovers: The Harlem Book Fair, and To Kill a Mockingbird

I spent a good chunk of yesterday reading a book (Fresh: A Perishable History) while listening to/watching C-SPAN BookTV‘s coverage of the 2010 Harlem Book Fair (this is a special kind of book-obsessed geekery).
For whatever reason, C-SPAN has these videos set as “not shareable” and “not embeddable,” so you’ll have to go to the [...]

On the Wax Meta-Analysis of Home vs. Hospital Birth

The recently published Wax meta-analysis in the American Journal of Obstetrics and Gynecology has caused quite a stir, primarily because of the authors’ conclusion that “Less medical intervention during planned home birth is associated with a tripling of the neonatal mortality rate.” At Our Bodies Our Blog, I detail some of the questions raised by [...]

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