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Latest News

• NNT: Love Your Body Campaign Urges Women to Question Beauty Ideals (09/08)
• NNT: What the Next President Can Do for Women and Girls (09/08)
• Letter To Congress: Help Native Women! Support The Indian Health Care Improvement Act (H.R. 1328) (PDF) (09/08)
• Take Action: Urge Senators to Protect Medicaid by Delaying Harmful Regulations (05/08)
• Below the Belt: ABCs, 123s, and STDs (03/08)
• Restore Affordable Birth Control to Low-Income and College Women (03/08)
• NOW, Hundreds of Groups Demand Health Care for Immigrant Children (12/07)
• Take Action: Ask Congress to override the veto (10/07)
• NOW Calls on Congress to Remember our Children and Override Presidential Veto (10/07)
• Take Action: Demand National Health Care for Everyone (07/07)
• Take Action: Support the Healthy Families Act (07/07)
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• Bush Vetoes Stem Cell Research Bill for a Second Time, Putting Ideology Above Saving Lives (06/07)
• Take Action: Demand Accountability for Women's Health at the FDA (05/07)
• Senate Values Science and Curative Medicine over Ideology, Passes Federal Stem Cell Research Bill (04/07)
• NOW Supports the State Children's Health Insurance Program (03/07)
• HPV Vaccine Added to CDC's Official Vaccination Schedule (01/07)
• Insurance Companies Label Eating Disorders "Behavioral Illnesses," Refuse to Cover Mental Health Costs (01/07)
• FDA Bows to Industry: OKs Risky Kind of Breast Implant (01/07)
• House Approves Federal Funding for Stem Cell Research (01/07)
• Take Action: Support Federal Funding for Stem Cell Research (01/07)
• Take Action: Eric Keroack Must Go! (12/06)
• Sign the Sack Keroack Petition (11/06)
• Take Action: Sack Keroack -- the anti-contraception doctor! (11/06)
• FDA Approves Dangerous Silicone Breast Implants (11/06)
• Bush Again Sacrifices Science to Politics (07/06)
• Tell FDA That Research Is Needed on Toxic Platinum Salts in Silicone Breast Implants (06/06)
• NOW Applauds the FDA for Approving the First Vaccine for Cervical Cancer (06/06)
• NOW Board, Officers and Action Center Staff Walk to Support Women's Cancer Research (5/06)
• Prevent Approval of Unsafe Implants: Call FDA, Senate on Wednesday, April 5 (4/06)
• Conservatives Oppose New Cervical Cancer Vaccine (12/05)
• New Findings on Mentor Corporation Reveal Further Disdain for Women's Health (12/05)
• FDA Makes Another Bad Decision on Silicone Breast Implants (11/05)
• NOW Cheers Investigation of Deceptive Federal Government Website (8/05)
• News Release: FDA Panel Recommends Against Readmitting Silicone Gel-Filled Breast Implants (4/05)
• Action Alert: Stand Up for the Truth About Risky Silicone Implants (4/05)
• Letter to Department of Health and Human Services Secretary Michael Leavitt Regarding Government Web Site on Sexuality (3/05)
• LGBT Health Awareness Week Raises Important Concerns (3/05)
• Review of Silicone Implants Tentatively Scheduled (1/05)

Archive

2004

• Tell Clear Channel, the FCC and Radio Stations to Stop "Breast Christmas Ever" Contest (12/04)
• Pink Ribbons Everywhere: Concerns About Breast Cancer Funding (12/04)
• Pharmacist Knows Best? Women Beg to Differ (12/04)
• Abstinence-Only Education Teaches Blatant Lies (12/04)
• Send FDA a Message: Do Not Approve Implants Without Safety Data (12/04)
• Succumbing to Political Pressure, FDA May OK Risky Breast Implants (12/04)
• Mastectomy, Lumpectomy, and the Freedom of Choice (10/04)
• Silicone Breast Implant Victims to See Settlement Dollars (6/04)
• NOW Renews Call for Universal, Single-Payer Health Insurance (5/04)
• The Time for Single-Payer, Universal Health Care Coverage is Now! (5/04)
• NOW's Comments to the FDA Regarding Silicone Breast Implants (4/04)

2003

• Special Report: Most Women Will Lose Under New Prescription Drug Bill; Future of Medicare at Risk While Drug Costs Rise (12/03)
• NOW Applauds Democratic Senators' Stand Against Deceptive Medicare Bill (11/03)
• FDA Panel Okays Unsafe Silicone Breast Implants (10/03)
• Women of Color Will Gather at Reproductive Health Conference in Atlanta (8/03)
• Take Action: Ask the FDA to Oppose Silicone Breast Implants Until Safety is Proved (7/03)
• Research Indicates Long-Term Risk to Women's Health from Silicone Breast Implants Not Fully Addressed in FDA Clinical Trials (7/03)
• Report Calls Attention to 'Educational' Pelvic Exams Performed On Unconscious Patients (3/03)

2002

• U.S. Recommends Mammograms, but Who's Paying? (2/02)

2001

• Feminists Demand Affordable Anti-Cancer Drug, Take On Pharmaceutical Manufacturer (12/01)
• Breast Implants and Threats to Women's Health (11/01)
• New Study: Teen Pregnancy and STDs Could Be Decreased Through Policy Changes (11/01)
• NOW Sends Message to Bristol Myers-Squibb: "Stop Risking Women's Lives and Health for Profit" (5/01)
• Women's Health Symposium Draws Visitors from Around the Globe (Winter 2001)

2000

• NOW Foundation Makes WISH for Women's Health (Summer 2000)
• NOW Opposes Bristol-Myers Squibb Corporate Monopoly on Women's Health (9/00)
• NOW Unites with Breast Cancer Groups for Research on Causes and Prevention (Winter 2000)

1999

• NOW Urges Candidates and Voters to Make Breast Cancer Prevention a Priority Issue in 2000 (10/99)
• Call for Bipartisan Patients' Bill (10/99)
• NOW Endorses Candlelight Vigil for Cancer Survivors (11/99)

1997

• FDA Repeal Bill Threatens Women's Health (1997)

National NOW Conference Resolutions

• Further Clinical Research on Breast Implants with Supporting Legislation in Congress (1999)
• Breast Implant Research (1997)