HPV Vaccines: Separating Fiction from Fact
Gardasil is one of two HPV vaccines. It protects against two cancer-causing strains of HPV and two wart-causing strains. You’ve probably heard a lot about the HPV vaccine, which protects against the...
View ArticleGardasil and Fertility
There is currently a lot of fear about vaccines out there, and if you pay attention to the news, you’ve probably caught a whiff of it. This panic was launched by a 1998 Lancet article authored by...
View ArticlePro-Choice Friday News Rundown
This is starting to tick me off. Too many parents are not taking advantage of the Gardasil vaccine — which prevents cancer. CANCER. Come on, people. Seriously. (Yahoo Health) Hopefully people aren’t...
View ArticleLet’s Talk Contraception: Dispelling Myths About Emergency Contraception
Since 1998, when the Food and Drug Administration first approved the morning-after pill, there have been controversies about its sale and use. Initially, age restrictions were enforced to regulate its...
View ArticleSTD Awareness: Two Out of Three Ain’t Bad
For the past decade, human papillomavirus, better known as HPV, has been a pretty consistent headline grabber. Formerly a little-discussed virus, HPV was catapulted into the public consciousness in...
View ArticleSTD Awareness: Prevention vs. Punishment
Before antibiotics, syphilis could kill and gonorrhea was responsible for most cases of infertility. Both diseases could spread from husband to wife to baby, potentially destroying families. So you’d...
View ArticleBest of the Blog: 2017 Edition
It’s been a rough year. Ever since the 45th president was inaugurated in January, we have been pushing back against attempts to overturn the rights of women, LGBTQ folks, immigrants, people of color,...
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