Joanna Rudnick is young, beautiful and has a promising career in filmmaking – and a ticking time bomb inside her. She was 27 years old when she received the bad news: she tested positive for a mutation in the BRCA gene, a mutation that highly predisposes her to breast and ovarian cancer, just like many [...]
Tags: BRCA, breast cancer, film, genetic testing, Joanna Rudnick, ovaries, preventive surgery
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A new documentary titled Orgasmic Birth made the rounds of worldwide film festivals in 2008 and now the concept is getting mainstream coverage in a report on ABC’s 20/20 news show. The same show also featured segments on breastfeeding and the trend of home births with little or no medical intervention.
In the 20/20 segment, one [...]
Tags: Debra Pascali-Bonaro, film, Ina May Gaskin, natural childbirth, orgasmic birth, water birth
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If you are into photography, then this is something for you. As a human egg emerges from a woman’s ovary, it was captured on camera, thus making its debut on film.
The ovulation video was captured by surgeons at the catholic University of Louvain in Belgium during a hysterectomy operation on a 45-year old woman.
Ovulation took [...]
Tags: egg, film, ovulation, video
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