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Yaz: Canary in the coal mine

Yaz: Canary in the Coal Mine

By On February 18, 2011 · Leave a Comment

Last night I was watching the local news about the chemical Triclosan, an active ingredient in a number of consumer products including hand sanitizers, antibacterial soaps, and toothpaste. I knew that using hand sanitizer and antibacterial soaps probably wouldn’t be good as [...]

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DC Area Contraception-Free Pharmacy Closes

By On March 6, 2010 · Leave a Comment

Many people would consider the phrase “contraception-free pharmacy” an oxymoron, but I think it’s a badge of honor. It shows a pro-fertility, pro-family mentality that is well aware that not only is the Pill (and other contraceptives) not a [...]

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I Support Trevor Dal Broi

By On October 14, 2009 · 2 Comments

If you live anywhere near East Griffith NSW (west of Syndey and north of Melbourne, I think) in Australia, bring your prescription to Trevor Dal Broi, one of many chemists (pharmacists) whose personal and moral beliefs (which happen to be religious) forbid him for prescribing contraception [...]

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Yaz Birth Contol nominated for Nobel Peace Prize

By On February 21, 2009 · 4 Comments

I’m grateful for drugs. I really am. I take them, some as prescription and some over the counter. They’re not my friends, per se, but in a fallen world we sometimes–oftentimes–need them. But guess what? For every action there’s a reaction, for every cause an effect, and it’s not news to us that drugs–pharmaceuticals, prescriptions, [...]

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How to dispose of birth control pills

By On January 29, 2009 · 5 Comments


So, you’re making the switch from bc to nfp? Congratulations! But before you toss your little compact of carcinogens, you’ll want to make sure you pack ‘em up safe and sound so that your pills don’t make a reappearance as [...]

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New Study Firmly Ties Hormone Use to Breast Cancer

By On December 16, 2008 · 4 Comments

Down the Hatch!

I’m filing this one under “Hello, McFly.”

This seems to be news to some– though sadly not on the radar of many–but Dr. Chris Kahlenborn has been saying this for years: taking synthetic hormones, namely hormonal replacement pills and oral contraceptives, for a sustained period of [...]

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Pharmaceutics of Continuity: the Right to Object

By On November 1, 2007 · Leave a Comment

A brief video from Rome Reports on the Pope’s aforementioned meeting with the Pharmacists from around the world.

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"We cannot anesthetize consciences…"

By On October 31, 2007 · 10 Comments

 

Memo to Politicians of the State of Wisconsin and New Jersey (and, well, the rest of the country, really): Evidently the biomedical services are at the service of man (read: English vernacular for human kind, not a misogynist omission of the feminine genius), not the other way around.

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