By Stephanie Dolgoff
From Health magazine
From Health magazine
You’ve read the best advances in women’s health over the last 20 years. Here, our list of the top seven bad things in women’s health.
“You’ve come a long way …” not so much
In 1968, Virginia Slims co-opted the feminist movement by portraying smoking as an empowered act. The “You’ve Come a Long Way, Baby” campaign ran through the 1980s, well after tobacco companies knew that smoking can cause lung cancer.
Forced sterilizations
In rural Alabama, two African-American girls Mary Alice and Minnie Relf, 12 and 14 in 1973, were deemed mentally incompetent and then sterilized without their consent. The case brought attention to the practice of using federal funds to sterilize mostly poor minorities in the name of public health. Read More
Here are the most-sought-after breast-enhancing procedure by the decade.
When her mom’s gynecologist mailed a postcard announcing she was adding cosmetic procedures to her practice, Kristen Cortland* didn’t hesitate to see her about the prominent bags under her eyes. “She’s a really good gynecologist, so I assumed she’d be good at anything she did,” says the 29-year-old Chicago-based realtor. 
