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Food insecurity-obesity paradox for women in Atlantic Canada
By Jane Shulman At first glance, it seems to be a contradiction. How could women who are...
Likhaan and the struggle for reproductive rights in the Philippines
  By Rita Morbia Dr. Junice Melgar (photo: Likhaan) Like many women’s health...
Book Review - The UNhysterectomy
BOOK REVIEW The UNhysterectomy: Solving Your Painful, Heavy Bleeding Without Major Surgery by Holly...
Book Review - Breasts: A Natural and Unnatural History by Florence Williams
BOOK REVIEW Breasts: A Natural and Unnatural History by Florence Williams, WW Norton and Co., 2012...
Book Review - I Feel Great About My Hands
BOOK REVIEW I Feel Great About My Hands: And Other Unexpected Joys of Aging Shari Graydon,...
Film Review - Programmed to be Fat
Film review Programmed to be Fat Directed by Bruce Mohun.Written by Bruce Mohun and Helen...
Breast self-examination: What it means and why the thinking about it has changed
The Canadian Task Force on Preventive Health Care released its guideline on screening for breast...
Mammography screening: Weighing the pros and cons for women’s health
“Best Online Story” - 2012 Media Awards sponsored by the Registered Nurses Association of Ontario...
Older women and sexuality ... are we still just talking lube?
By Lyba Spring Lee figured she was getting so many yeast infections because she hadn’t had sex in...
Not a flower shop: Exploring breast cancer risk and gender bias
... in the automotive plastic parts industry in Ontario By Mary-Louise Leidl “Well I know firsthand...
Women and alcohol: To your health?
by Ann Dowsett Johnston It’s the twilight hour at my corner coffee shop, a crowded café on a...
Finding a reason
Exploring  motivational  interviewing as a technique for treating eating disorders By...
Gender matters in Saskatchewan
Researchers gather in the province to discuss women’s health by Carla Simon In January 2011,...
Outsourcing births
The Network speaks with health advocate Shirley Tagalik about why her northern town is fighting to...
Tribute to a Fighter: S. Joyce Attis
By Madeline Boscoe and Anne Rochon Ford The movement to raise public awareness in Canada about...
What we're NOT reading - Spring 2011
Which resources don’t make the cut The Canadian Women’s Health Network chooses a select few...
What we're reading - Spring 2011
Recommended resources from our library Feminist Counselling Edited by Lynda R. Ross  (Women’s...
Herstreet
It’s 8:15 p.m. on a Monday night, and Léonie Couture’s work day is far from over when she calls...
Disinfection & downstream effects
Gender and the Implications of Pharmaceuticals and Personal Care Products in our Water Box 1:...
Breaking down the walls
Building a case for community-based alternatives to incarceration that better meet the needs of...
Marginalization through aggregation
Cardiovascular disease is the second highest cause of mortality in Canada, eclipsed only by cancer...
What we're reading - Fall 2010
Sex, Lies, and Pharmaceuticals: How Drug Companies Plan to Profit from Female Sexual DysfunctionBy...
Women and disaster
Adapted from Not Just Victims: Women in Emergencies and Disasters from Women and Health Care Reform...
The POWER of equity
By Naushaba Degani and Arlene S. Bierman The POWER (Project for an Ontario Women’s Health Evidence-...
Got a cervix? Get a Pap
Campaign encourages lesbian, bisexual & trans people to get tested By Jane Shulman When was...