Women Connect! Strengthening communications to meet sexual and reproductive health challenges.

Women's nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) have significant comparative advantage for addressing sexual and reproductive health challenges facing women and families. This article describes an initiative to assist women's NGOs in developing greater skills using media and information communication technology for communicating women's health messages. Participating women's groups in Africa undertook innovative media projects--radio broadcasts on human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) and family planning, an antiviolence campaign, media campaigns on avoiding teen pregnancy--and designed websites, established Internet cafés, and downloaded health information from the Internet.

Bringing emergency contraception to American women: the history and remaining challenges.

Emergency contraception has been called "America's best-kept secret." This article chronicles what it took to move it from secret to the pharmacy shelf. The fact that an emergency contraception product is available today in many pharmacies is indeed a major accomplishment.

Subchronic and chronic inhalation toxicity of antimony trioxide in the rat.

Fischer 344 rats were exposed by inhalation to Sb2O3 (antimony trioxide) dust at exposure levels of 0, 0.25, 1.08, 4.