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Archive for December 2007

December 17th, 2007

Holy Spam, Santa!

My goodness! ‘Tis the season for spam. Every morning I wake up to the pleasure of unwrapping dozens of comments suspected to be spam. Almost all of them are. While I am so thankful to know how to get all of my pharmaceuticals, both legal and not, online and for the cheapest price ever, I […]

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December 14th, 2007

Holiday List Round Up

Many thanks to Kendra from A Hearty Life for doing the legwork and rounding up all of the listy blogs from yesterday. Here’s her summary of all the numbered goodness:
Angela at Breastfeeding 1-2-3 started our theme day off today with her very witty and I mean witty, post, Top 10 Funny Breastfeeding Slogans.
Kristina […]

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December 13th, 2007

Fa La La La Lists!

If you haven’t noticed, the blogs here at the B5Media Health and Science Channel have taken their inspiration from the season and provided you with lists upon lists upon lists. Take a stroll around the channel and see what holiday lists we’ve compiled for you (after you read mine, of course).
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December 13th, 2007

Ten Ways to Celebrate (and Help) This Holiday

There’s nothing I hate more than returning gifts.
Last year, I tried to do almost all of my holiday shopping online, which was a tremendous success, until things didn’t fit and I had to shell out for shipping to get it right. This year, I am going to try to embrace the idea of the evergreen […]

By Gabrielle -- 10 comments

December 12th, 2007

Seeds for the Seeds

When I was little and had a cold, my mom would crush baby aspirin into applesauce (just a spoonful of sugar….) to help the medicine go down. Lately, I’ve been finding myself singing that Mary Poppins tune as I surreptitiously slip pumpkin seeds into just about every meal I make. Why?
A few months ago I […]

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December 10th, 2007

Perception Matters

My colleague Kristina Chew at Autism Vox also encountered an ad campaign this week that she feels sets society backwards in the name of “awareness.” The NYU Child Center’s “Ransom Notes” public awareness campaign could do real and immediate harm to how autistic children are perceived and treated in America. Kristina writes:
How we talk about […]

By Gabrielle -- 1 comment

December 9th, 2007

The Real Meaning of Christmas

No, I am not going to talk about material vs. spiritual, Santa Claus vs. little baby Jesus. Even though my mom still insists on buying a birthday cake and singing Happy Birthday to Jesus every year (a holdover from our childhood which she thinks we all embrace), we all know this holiest of holy […]

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December 8th, 2007

“Use Your Period For Good” - Part II

I am still fuming about this and its taken me a little while to figure out why. I think I’ve got it now.
At the very heart of this statement is an implication that a period somehow needs to be put to use or justified beyond its very existence. There is an assumption that “just” a […]

By Gabrielle -- 1 comment

December 8th, 2007

“Use Your Period For Good.”

Did I really see this statement/command/slogan on the TV this morning?
Oh yes.
Apparently, Tampax is out to save the world and this is their new slogan. For every overpriced piece of cotton shelved in a plastic applicator that you purchase to place in your most sacred of places, Tampax will be so kind to donate some […]

By Gabrielle -- 10 comments

December 7th, 2007

Jestem Polka - Poland Proposes Reimbursement for IVF Treatments

This is excerpted from this week’s Polish Market Review:

 
Poland’s new health minister, Ewa Kopacz, is in favour of in-vitro fertilisation being reimbursed from the country’s budget. As many as one million Polish couples suffer from infertility, but only 3,500 a year are able to afford the artificial fertilisation procedure.
 
According to Ms Kopacz, in the initial […]

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