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- Blood Conservation and Avoidance
- Forum to investigate, discuss and report techniques in blood conservation and alternatives to blood transfusion.
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- Council on Size and Weight Discrimination
- Articles, links and resources on discrimination and media images, with information about how to become a media-watch volunteer.
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- Short Persons Support
- Provides support and reference material to persons of short stature and creates a forum to teach people about the social issues of being short.
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- The Body Burden - Living in the Shadow of Barbie
- Information about and reviews of the book by Stacey Handler, granddaughter of the woman who created the Barbie doll, in which she openly discloses her own battle with her body image.
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- NPR : Beauty Series, Part 1: Setting the Beauty Agenda
- NPR's Susan Stamberg talks with Linda Wells, editor of Allure magazine about the magazine, its coverage of beauty issues, and how it chooses what goes on the cover. [6:10 Realaudio broadcast] (June 15, 2004)
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- NPR : Beauty Series, Part 2: Pitching Beauty to Teens
- Jean Kilbourne, author of Can't Buy My Love -- How Advertising Changes the Way We Think and Feel, says the media have created an ideal of beauty for young girls that is dangerously unachievable. Kilbourne speaks with NPR's Susan Stamberg in the second in a series of conversations on the nature of beauty. [6:44 Realaudio broadcast] (June 15, 2004)
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- How Stuff Works: Athletic Drug Testing
- Unbiased explanations of all the various performance enhancing drugs, and how athletes are tested for them, with many related links.
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- Mothers Against Misuse and Abuse
- MAMA offers a rational approach to the issues of drug use and its effect on the family. Provides a holistic approach and scientific drug education to all ages of society. Social and recreational alternatives to drug use.
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- Multidisciplinary Association for Psychedelic Studies
- A membership-based non-profit research and educational organization. Includes research papers, MAPS bulletin, news updates, and a forum.
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- Terminal Wing-Ding Club, The
- Links and references for aged and terminally ill members who wish to follow the example of Aldous Huxley, Timothy Leary and others.
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- Foundation for Women's Health, Research and Development
- International organisation dedicated to stopping harmful traditional practices such as female genital mutilation which violate the human rights of women and girls.
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- Campaign for Real (Raw) Milk
- Advocates the consumption of clean, unpasteurized, whole milk, and additive-free organic dairy products. Find out how to get raw milk and read articles on the health benefits of raw milk.
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- Social Issues Research Centre
- Provides research and reporting on food, health, and other lifestyle matters, and campaigns against scares.
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- Bureau of Health Professions
- Manages and provides access to the National Practitioner Data Bank, the Healthcare Integrity and Protection Data Bank, and the Federal Credentialing Program.
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- MedlinePlus: Health Fraud
- Focuses on health fraud resources and tips on where to report fraud cases. Partially in Spanish.