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September 9, 2011 206 Comments

The tide is turning!

The tide is turning! “I am still hoping to hear more about women who are past it all because they said no. It would be comforting to know there are women out there who had the same horrible symptoms, a big fat confused uterus, lived with  it, resisted hysterectomy and are now through menopause and…   Read More…

May 12, 2009 17 Comments

HERS Honored With Women’s Way Award

Amid the applause of 1,100 guests, the Women’s Way 32nd Annual Powerful Voice Awards were presented in Philadelphia on May 6, 2009. The awards honored the accomplishments of Women Organized Against Rape (WOAR) Director Teresa White, community organizer and HIV/AIDS awareness advocate Waheedah Shabazz-El, and women’s rights advocate and activist, Hysterectomy Educational Resources and Services…   Read More…

January 18, 2009 39 Comments

PAYING FOR THE BAILOUT

As we tighten our belts at home and abroad, we are all accountable for the burden of national debt we pass along to future generations. Local and international relief efforts for the poor are also feeling the pinch, which makes the search for ways to heal our broken economy a humanitarian effort. Although medical profits…   Read More…

January 7, 2009 206 Comments

NAME THAT DOCTOR AND HOSPITAL

       NAME THAT DOCTOR AND HOSPITAL I am Nora W. Coffey,  president of the Hysterectomy Educational Resources and Services (HERS) Foundation.   When I was thirty-six years old, I was hysterectomized and castrated by Robert Giuntoli, at the University of Pennsylvania Hospital in Philadelphia, and his assistant Douglas Rabin. I was not informed…   Read More…

July 28, 2008 428 Comments

The ovary option

There has been a media blitz surrounding recent discussion of the pros and cons of surgical removal of the ovaries during hysterectomy (see Cochrane article below). But the most important issue has yet to be addressed: the uterus should rarely be removed in the first place. The article below perpetuates a dangerous myth through the…   Read More…

September 28, 2007 66 Comments

Removal of one or both ovaries increases incidence of cognitive loss

HERS Foundation said…This article is soon to be published in the Journal ‘Neurology’. Many hysterectomized and castrated women experience memory problems that began after the surgery. Because they are often ridiculed by doctors for connecting their memory problems to their surgery their concerns and experiences are often trivialized by family and friends. The Real Experts…   Read More…

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