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OBOS Post: Laughing Gas for Labor

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Over at Our Bodies Our Blog today, we’re wondering why nitrous oxide (”laughing gas”) isn’t a more widely available option for labor pain relief in the United States, given its availability in Europe and Canada.…

Our Bodies Our Blog: On Increasing Rates of Diabetes in Pregnancy

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An article set to appear in the May issue of the journal Diabetes Care is garnering widespread media attention today, as it declares that the prevalence of pre-existing diabetes in women who become pregnant has doubled…

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Our Bodies Our Blog: Double Dose: Judy Norsigian on OBOS Book Tour; Global Health Summit; Being a Single Mother in China; Health Database Ignores Key Word: “Abortion”; and More ….

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Last-Minute Reminder: Judy Norsigian, executive director of Our Bodies Ourselves, will be at Women & Children First bookstore in Chicago Sunday, April 6, at 4:30 p.m. to discuss OBOS' new book,…

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Our Daily Meds

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Melody Petersen, who covered the drug industry for the New York Times for four years, has written a book on the topic, “Our Daily Meds: How the Pharmaceutical Companies Transformed Themselves Into Slick Marketing…

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Why Isn't Nitrous Oxide Widely Available for Labor Pain Relief in the U.S.?

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I was recently pointed to an editorial in the March 2007 issue of the journal Birth which asks, “Nitrous Oxide for Pain in Labor–Why Not in the United States?” You may be familiar with nitrous oxide (”laughing gas”) as…

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Our Bodies Our Blog: Access to Abortion Search to be Restored in POPLINE; Johns Hopkins Releases Statement

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Following Wednesday’s revelation that the USAID-funded POPLINE reproductive health database had deliberately blocked users from performing a simple search on “abortion” because, “As a federally funded project, we…

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