Hurray FDA Redux

So, only one and a half years after Health Canada commonsensically allowed Plan B to be available, without a physician's prescription, simply by marching up to the pharmacy counter, the US FDA is following suit. Well done. Restrictions to abortion and contraception have practically NEVER been so severe in the US (at least not since I started having sex and caring about such things), so this is really a coup for American women. Everybody go on out and get yourself a couple just-in-case packets: for the medicine cabinet, your hangbag, your office drawer...

Now the fight is on to get Plan B cheap cheap cheap.

Our Bodies, Ourselves- 30 years later

Just read that one of my favourite tomes on women's health has made it into the top 20 books of all time to influence health policy in the world. See Black & Neuhauser's article in the July 06 issue of Journal fo Health Services Research & Policy.

Philip Iverson

Philip Iverson, Fredericton native and brilliantly emotional painter, has died of brain cancer.

Photo credit James Baird Gallery in Newfoundland.