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LAS VEGAS, May 3, 2013 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- "Clitoraid is proud to announce its first annual International Clitoris Awareness Week, May 6 to May 12," said Nadine Gary, Clitoraid spokesperson, in a statement released today. "Our first six years of humanitarian work have been dedicated to surgically repairing clitorises for female genital mutilation [FGM] victims, and on October 8 we'll open the world's first Clitoral Restoration Hospital," Gary said. "This year, we'll celebrate...
John Neumann for Redorbit.com Like the search for the Loch Ness Monster or sightings of UFOs, the search for the elusive G-Spot has eluded researchers ever since it was first described and named in 1950 by Ernst Grafenberg, a German gynecologist. Now, however, the mysterious spot has been identified and confirmed to be real, at least for one doctor. Writing in the Journal of Sexual Medicine, Dr. Ostrzenski of the Institute of Gynecology in St. Petersburg, Florida, said it was a...
Restorative surgery scheduled today for 4 women as more doctors complete training in corrective procedure LAS VEGAS, March 8, 2012 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- A U.S.-based, nonprofit organization's fight against female genital mutilation (FGM) enters a new and expanded phase today, according to a statement released this morning by Clitoraid (www.clitoraid.org). The organization was launched by Rael, who founded the International Raelian Movement (www.rael.org) nearly 40 years ago and...
LA JOLLA, Calif., Jan. 17, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Using growth factors derived from a woman's own blood, physician researchers Drs. Samuel Wood and Charles Runels have developed a simple, office-based procedure that appears to markedly improve the quality of a woman's sexual response. The preliminary results of this procedure, which involves the injection of platelet-derived growth factors (PDGFs) into a specific area on the upper wall of the vagina and the clitoris, were...
Dual board certified plastic surgeon Dr. Gary Alter gets published a second time within The Journal of the American Society of Plastic Surgeons for his continued progressive work with the Alter V or Wedge technique he invented. Beverly Hills, CA (PRWEB) July 19, 2011 Developing a proven surgical technique for labia minora reduction (labioplasty, inner vaginal lip reduction) referred to as the Alter "V or "Wedge" labiaplasty technique, Board Certified Plastic Surgeon, Gary Alter, MD has...
Tana, a female French bulldog, was brought to a veterinary center for her first vaccination. Specialists there were alerted by the size of her clitoris, which was "larger than normal", and they started to carry out tests. These revealed the first ever genetic alteration ever detected in the reproductive system of this breed "“ the female puppy had cryptorchid testicles (outside the scrotum).Genetic alteration of the reproductive system or sexual reversal "has been described...
LAS VEGAS, Feb. 3, 2011 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- USA-based Clitoraid, a non-profit organization launched by the spiritual leader Rael, announced today that it will not only sponsor a number of events around the world for Feb. 6, the United Nations-designated worldwide "Zero Tolerance Day" for the practice of female genital mutilation (FGM) but will also promote the idea of going one step further by declaring the day "Healing Day." "More than 130 million women in the world have been...
NEW YORK, May 27 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- International human rights organization Equality Now welcomes the AAP's decision to withdraw its ill-conceived revised policy statement on female genital mutilation (FGM) issued on April 26, 2010. The new policy statement essentially promoted Type IV FGM, as categorized by the World Health Organization (WHO), and suggested that federal and state laws might be more effective if they "enabled pediatricians to reach out to families by offering a...
EQUALITY NOW CALLS ON AAP TO REVOKE ELEMENTS OF ITS 2010 POLICY STATEMENT THAT ENDORSES PEDIATRICIANS' "NICKING" OF GIRLS' GENITALIA NEW YORK, May 5 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- International human rights organization Equality Now is stunned by a new policy statement issued by the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP), which essentially promotes female genital mutilation (FGM) and advocates for "federal and state laws [to] enable pediatricians to reach out to families by offering a 'ritual...
LAS VEGAS, April 20 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The San Francisco Chronicle, through Caille Millner's April 14 column "Wrong Approach to ending Genital Mutilation," successfully bullied the San Francisco-based store Good Vibrations to stop all fund raising activities for Clitoraid, a nonprofit organization that offers clitoral repair surgery for victims of Female Genital Mutilation (FGM) both here in the United States and worldwide. Millner and other critics following her lead have...
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The brown hyena (Parahyaena brunnea, formerly Hyaena brunnea) lives mainly in the Kalahari and Namib deserts of southern Africa. It is smaller than the spotted hyena, and unlike its spotted cousin, is largely a scavenger. It is the largest land animal to derive most of its diet from scavenging. Because of the scarcity of food in the desert, the brown hyena supplements its diet with fruit and vegetables. Along the Namib coastline they are known to snatch seal pups. Also unlike the spotted...
