Sunday News Round-Up, Gloomy Sunday Edition
Some interesting and important resources and stories that have caught my eye over the past week:
Reviews of sports bras for big boobs.
A couple of my recent Our Bodies Ourselves posts:
Are Right-to-Know Breast Density Laws Good for Women’s Health?
Rally at the Supreme Court – Breast Cancer Gene Case to be Heard Next Month
Also of interest: FDA Approves Silicone Gel Breast Implant Without Public Meeting
Also Supreme Court-related, gay marriage is up this week. Lots of wonky coverage on SCOTUSblog, if you’re not familiar with that source.
Steubenville’s Jane Doe asked people to do something
This is just…no. Doctors Turning Away Patients With Disabilities – the DisabilityScoop item summarizes a new study published in the Annals of Internal Medicine, Mobility Impairment Reduces Access to Subspecialty Care – only the abstract of that paper is freely available.
Things we are not even remotely surprised by: Shuffleboard? Oh, Maybe Let’s Get High Instead – on more “older” Americans smoking pot.
We the People petition of interest:
Make Consent a Mandatory Part of Sex-Ed in Public Schools
The New York Times did a Q&A with Dr. Laura Erickson-Schroth, who is working on a book “Trans Bodies, Trans Selves” as a guide for trasgender and gender-variant folks.
And in Arizona, a hateful and dangerous bill that could create criminals of transgender persons for using their restroom of choice.
No one should have to “show their paper...
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