FOR WOMEN & FAMILIES

OUR MISSION The mission of the National Research Center for Women & Families is to improve the health and safety of adults and children every day.

Our Cancer Prevention and Treatment Fund helps adults and children reduce their risk of developing cancer and ensures that they get the best possible treatment.

As a trusted, impartial voice that uniquely blends research and advocacy, we gather, synthesize, and apply medical and scientific information to improve programs and policies that affect people’s lives. We scrutinize research findings, conduct new studies, and provide information to the public, the media, opinion leaders, and policymakers. We are dedicated to making a difference for adults and children across the country, from the White House to your house. MESSAGE FROM THE PRESIDENT

toys be tested for safety before they are sold and be free of lead and six types pf phtha - BOARD OF DIRECTORS lates, a chemical used in plastic that has been linked to genital changes in boys and cancer. George Thomas Beall • We were instrumental in persuading Con - Managing Director gress to improve the national laws regulat - Global Social Marketing Practice, ing medications, vaccines, and medical Ogilvy Public Relations Worldwide devices, to strengthen the safeguards that protect consumers. Wendy Braund, MD, MPH, MSEd Office of Disease Prevention and • We wrote a series of survival guides for Health Promotion, U. S. Department working moms and our first survival guide of Health and Human Services for military spouses. The series resulted in NRC’s first book: The Survival Guide for Arthur L. Caplan, PhD , Director Working Moms (and Other Stressed-Out Adults ), funded and published by the office Center for Bioethics, University of supplies company Quill Corporation. Pennsylvania School of

In 2007 and 2008, the National Research • We developed and disseminated our first Pamela F. Gallin, MD , Director Center (NRC) for Women & Families signif - free, continuing medical education course, a Pediatric Ophthalmology, Columbia icantly advanced its mission as a trusted comprehensive online course on breast can - Presbyterian Medical Center and influential source of unbiased informa - cer treatment for primary care physicians tion on health and safety. and other health professionals. Mary G. Hager, MA , Writer

We initiated a Cancer Prevention and Treat - • We partnered with the Environmental Pro - tection Agency to develop fact sheets on sev - Nancy Hardt, MD , Professor and ment Fund, which will expand our work Associate Dean, University of aimed at preventing cancer and helping eral environmental health issues of Florida College of Medicine adult and children cancer patients. importance to older women, such as the risks of exposure to certain cleaning fluids We tackled issues ranging from the rising and pesticides. Judith L. Harris, JD number of unnecessary mastectomies to the Partner, Reed Smith the regulation of dangerous substances in Whether explaining well-established, but plastic bottles, toys, and other common complicated scientific information to fami - Alan Mendelson, LLD household items. lies and their doctors, or making sense of Axion Venture Partners controversial new research, we scrutinize what research does and does not show and Our presence on Capitol Hill increased, as Sharon Scribner Pearce , Director of did our impact on individuals across the na - provide unbiased analysis to the public, the Public Policy, Girl Scouts of the USA tion. It has been so gratifying when they media, and policy- makers. As we have write to us and thank us for our work on since our founding in 1999, our research and their behalf. advocacy work continues to represent the in - Omega Logan Silva, MD terests and needs of ordinary women and Former President, American Medical The media continued to turn to NRC as a their families, who are too often left out of Women’s Association credible source for the latest health news, policy debates. with coverage including USA Today, The Susan F. Wood, PhD Wall Street Journal, , The George Washington University Washington Post , the CBS Evening News with Katie Couric , MSNBC’s Hardball , The Rachel Diana Zuckerman, PhD Ray Show and National Public Radio. Our President three web sites received more than 25 mil - lion hits, attesting to NRC’s importance as a resource.

Specific accomplishments include:

• We worked with the House and Senate to pass the Consumer Product Safety Im - provement Act, which was signed into law in August 2008. The new law requires that 01

PROGRAM AND POLICY HIGHLIGHTS NRC’s mission is to improve programs the best treatments, and doctors and and policies that affect the health and patients are aware of the best ways to Until recently phthalates were also used in safety of adults and children. In 2007-2008, prevent cancer. toys that often ended up in babies’ we provided free information for breast mouths. Thanks to the Consumer Product cancer patients and the doctors who serve To this end, in 2007 the Center established Safety Improvement Act, which NRC was them, testified before Congress and the the Cancer Prevention and Treatment instrumental in drafting and getting Food and Drug Administration to improve Fund, devoted to the prevention of all signed into law in August 2008, toys sold the safety and effectiveness of medical types of cancers, improved screening, and in the U.S. will no longer contain products, won hard-fought improvements an increase in the numbers of patients who phthalates. NRC fought and prevailed in the safety of toys and children’s receive the best treatments. The Fund is over ExxonMobil, which manufactures the products, advised parents and supported in part by donation through the main phthalate used in toys (DINP) and policymakers about the new HPV vaccine Combined Federal Campaign (#11967). spent tens of millions of dollars in its for cervical cancer, improved policies that NRC also received a generous grant in failed lobbying effort. could reduce childhood obesity, and 2008 from the Jenifer Altman Foundation shared useful suggestions about how to to strengthen its scientific scrutiny of juggle work and family responsibilities. exposures that cause cancer. Highlights from our programs and initiatives from 2007-2008 follow: Many larger organizations are committed to research on cancer, but NRC is the only Cancer Prevention one focused on quality of care and And Treatment Fund translating research into practice. A generous grant from the Blaustein Family Helping Curtail the Alarming Rise In Foundation has enabled us to develop two Unnecessary Mastectomies new patient booklets, one for DCIS and one for LCIS, the two most common forms Every year, more than 250,000 women are of “pre-cancerous” breast conditions. We diagnosed with breast cancer or "pre- also developed a Continuing Medical cancerous" conditions that may never Education (CME) course to help primary NRC is an active member of the Coalition become cancer. Experts agree that more care physicians and gynecologists be more on Health and the Environment (CHE) than 75 percent of these women do not knowledgeable about the latest treatment. and co-chairs a policy taskforce on need mastectomies if they have access to This CME course is available online on the women’s health and the environment other, equally safe treatment. Yet, as Medscape Web site. (WHEI). We also worked with the unbelievable as it may seem, in some Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) parts of our country, medically Reducing Toxins In Our Homes to develop fact sheets produced in 2007 on unnecessary mastectomies are increasing, several environmental health issues of not decreasing. Certain kinds of plastic containers importance to older women, such as the contain harmful chemicals that seep into risks of cleaning fluids and pesticides. NRC believes that by translating research foods and beverages. Phthalates and findings into clear, everyday language Bisphenol A (BPA) are both “endocrine Ensuring the Safety Of and making that information widely disruptors” that have been linked to Medical Products available, we can reduce the number of genital abnormalities, early puberty, mastectomies and improve cancer cancer and other health problems. BPA is “FDA-Approved” Doesn’t treatment at the same time. We can reach found in hard clear plastic, such as baby Necessarily Mean Safe for You this goal by making sure that women bottles, and in the lining of canned food understand their treatment options, and infant formula. Phthalates are used The U.S. Food and Drug Administration doctors communicate more clearly with in personal care products and to soften reviews thousands of new medical their patients, insurance companies cover plastic. devices every year be —most without 02

PROGRAM AND POLICY HIGHLIGHTS clinical trials. As long as the products are Thanks to a generous planning grant from “substantially equivalent” to others on In 2007 and 2008, NRC was one of the the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, the market, a loose definition that does nation’s most effetive nonprofit NRC reached out to women’s and girls’ not require that they be made of the same organizations working to improve the law organizations to discuss strategies for material or use a similar mechanism of which gives the FDA authority to protect fighting the epidemic of childhood action, they can be sold in the United consumers from unsafe medical products. obesity, and interviewed dozens of States In addition, the vast majority of NRC helped ensure that the FDA Congressional staff members from the U.S. prescription drugs and implantable Advancement Act, signed into law in Senate and House of Representatives to devices are approved on the basis of October 2007, included new safeguards compile information about policy short-term safety and may not be proven and increased resources to strengthen the strategies. In March 2007, Dr. Zuckerman safe for long-term use. More needs to be safety of prescription drugs and medical appeared on the CBS Evening News with done to keep us from being harmed by devices. As a result of our work, NRC Katie Couric, to talk aboutthe links products meant to help us. president, Dr. Diana Zuckerman was between early puberty and obesity in girls. asked to join the Board of Directors of the NRC has taken a leading role in improving Reagan Udall Foundation, which was Child obesity rates in Washington, D.C. policies meant to protect the public from created as a public-private partnership to are especially high, and in 2008 Dr. unsafe medical products. Our report, FDA help strengthen the FDA. Zuckerman testifiedat the Public Advisory Committees: Does Approval Mean Oversight Roundtable on School Health Safety? , revealed a flawed system where Testifying Before Congress and the Programs in DC’s Public Schools on the “independent scientists” publicly admit FDA urgent need for schools to address this that they have doubts about the safety and health risk . effectiveness of medical products that they NRC played an important role in FDA leg - are recommending for FDA approval. The islation that was introduced in 2006 and Help for Working Moms In media and the public have used the report became law in September 2007. In May Today’s Hectic World to better understand the FDA and 2007 and June 2007, Dr. Zuckerman testi - policymakers have used it to consider fied before the U.S. House of Representa - Balancing work and family a challenge policy changes to improve that process. In tives’ Energy and Commerce Committee, that can affect the health and safety of all 2008, NRC’s president authored the article Subcommittee on Health, on the need to family members. “Do Conflicts of Interest Undermine FDA improve safeguards in leg - Approval Decisions?” in The Journal of islation. We are proud to say that this bill The UPS Foundation funded our Survival Regulatory Affairs and was frequently was significantly improved because of our Guides for Working Moms with a very interviewed and quoted on the efforts regarding medical devices, public generous grant, allowing us to create 10 inadequacy of government guidelines to access to data, and post-mar - articles aimed at providing information to reduce conflicts of interest. ket safeguards. help reduce stress for working mothers. With the donation of design services by In 2008, Dr. Zuckerman testified before A National Approach Ogilvy PR Worldwide, we were able to FDA Advisory Committees and the Sci - To Reducing Childhood create survival guides with topics that ence Board on a range of medical issues: Obesity included reducing stress, getting enough she spoke on the risks of LASIK devices; rest, preparing healthful meals despite a she testified about a new osteoporosis Childhood obesity is on the rise, and busy schedule, child care, organizing drug, Fablyn; she spoke at two Science with it, younger and younger children are home and life, and teaching kids good Board meetings about the lack of scientific experiencing health problems normally behavior. In addition, a Survival Guide for evidence of the safety of Bisphenol A for associated with adults, such as Military Spouses on the topic of ”Can baby bottles and food containers; and she dangerously high cholesterol levels and Stress Make You Sick?”was produced and testified about the ineffectiveness of over Type 2 diabetes, formerly known as distributed. the counter cough and cold medications “adult diabetes.” for children. In 2008, Quill Corporation, a billion 03

PROGRAM AND POLICY HIGHLIGHTS dollar office supply e-tailer and to Bioethics . NRC reached out to young women on wholly owned subsidiary of Staples, MySpace and Facebook. Christina and Inc., partnered with NRC on a book, The Nearly one-third of all college students Laura linked our Web pages on these Survival Guide for Working Moms (and Other have experienced some form of dating social networks to students and advocacy Stressed-Out Adults) . Written by the NRC violence. NRC’s brochure on violent organizations, to alert them about President and Director of Public Affairs, dating relationships, targeted to college important legislation and health issues, Diana Zuckerman and Brandel France de women, has been used on campuses across including reproductive health and dating Bravo, 50,000 copies of the book will be the country. Diana Zuckerman’s article in violence. In addition, both young women provided to Quill customers, employees, the October 2008 issue of Journal of learned how to lobby Congress and work and to NRC’s friends and contributors. Adolescent Health, “Teenagers and in coalitions. Cosmetic Surgery: Focus on Breast Augmentation and Liposuction” exposed Marcy Gross Internship the dramatic rise in plastic surgery among teenagers. Marcy Gross was a nationally respected advocate for women's health who served NRC also worked to improve federal as a senior adviser at the U.S. Department policies on health insurance for children, of Health and Human Services. Ms. Gross sick leave, and regulating tobacco products helped build the foundation for federal to protect children. policies regarding sexual assault and other women's health issues, and co-authored a Internships Honoring Role report that became the basis of the federal Models Healthy Start Program, aimed at reducing infant mortality and promoting health care Our summer internship program includes for children. After retiring from the federal internships named for Ted Weiss and government in 2002, Ms. Gross helped Marcy Gross, whose idealism and organizations dedicated to women’s health accomplishments have inspired our work. and safety. She worked closely with NRC on our efforts to improve the quality of Ted Weiss Internship care for breast cancer patients until her death in 2006. Rep. Ted Weiss (D-N.Y.) was a Congressional champion for domestic Joan Dawson was our Marcy Gross Intern Reducing Health Disparites, health policy and human rights, and for the fall of 2007. Joanie has an MPH Preventing Teen Violence, wasknown as the “conscience of the from The Johns Hopkins School of Public And More Congress.” His Congressional oversight Health. She has worked as a cancer hearings were legendary, whether they information specialist at Johns Hopkins “For Whites only” is an offensive phrase focused on the safety of medical products, Hospital and as an editorial coordinator at from another era. Yet many medical the need to marshal resources to defeat the the National Academy of Sciences. As our products that are sold to everyone are AIDS epidemic, or how ideology Marcy Gross intern, Joanie focused on tested only on Whites. interfered with science and public policy. projects to reduce violence against women Rep. Weiss was elected to the House of by reaching out to women's centers, health NRC has been an effective voice for more Representatives in 1976 and served until centers, sororities, student groups, college diversity in clinical trials and NRC his death in 1992. professors, and research centers to form a president Diana Zuckerman contributed a network of affiliates. Joanie also chapter entitled, “Ethics of Inclusion and Thanks to our 2007 and 2008 Ted Weiss encouraged colleges to reduce sexual Exclusion: Race, Gender and Age” to the Interns, Christina Medina and Laura assaults on campus, as well as distributed forthcoming book, The Penn Center Guide Walls , and other college student interns, NRC's pamphlet on abusive dating 04

COMMUNITY OUTREACH AND EDUCATION relationships. journalist traveling with President Nixon consultant for the public and private to China on his breakthrough trip in 1972. sectors, and as Senior Program Advisor at Joy Simonson Internship the Howard University Women’s Health She has the distinction of having traveled Institute. Dr. Epps has written more than In 2007, NRC announced our new around the world several times with 90 articles for medical publications, co- internship named in honor of Joy Presidents Nixon, Ford, Carter, Reagan, edited The Women's Complete Handbook , Simonson, our National Advisory Board George H.W. Bush, and Clinton, and was the first African American member, Foremother, and friend, who andcovered every world economic president of several organizations, passed away in June 2007 at the age of 88. summit. including the American Medical Women's Joy was well known in the women's Association. community as an activist and advocate into her 70s and 80s. That was just the Dr. Bernice Sandler played a major role in Carmen Delgado Votaw has worked on latest in a long list of accomplishments, the development and passage of Title IX behalf of women, children, and families in starting when she moved to Washington and other laws prohibiting sex the and internationally. She in the 1940s to work for the War discrimination in education. The New York served in public policy leadership Manpower Commission, and then to Times referred to her as the “Godmother of positions for United Way of America and Egypt and Yugoslavia immediately after Title IX.” She is the author of three books, Girl Scouts of the USA. Ms. Votaw has World War II to work for the United has made more than 2,500 presentations, visited nearly 70 countries to speak on Nations. To honor and continue Ms. and has written more than 100 articles. human and civil rights and on Simonson’s remarkable legacy, the Nationally respected for her research and development and women’s issues. She has internship will focus on health issues for expertise in women’s educational equity, participated in countless international midlife and older women. Dr. Sandler has focused on policies and forums of governmental and non- programs affecting students of all ages, governmental organizations, including exposing the chilly classroom climate for five World Conferences on Foremother Awards girls and women. Women.

The Foremother Awards Luncheon Sophie Altman is the creator and celebrates inspirational women who executive producer of It’s Academic , helped improve the lives and recognized by the Guinness Book of Records opportunities of women and children as the world’s longest-running TV quiz across the country. The honorees broke show. Ms. Altman created It’s Academic to down barriers and continued their work recognize the academic achievements of long after they were expected to retire. local high school students, and the show is now in its 46th season on Washington’s We recognized five distinguished women NBC4. in both 2007 and 2008. 2008 Honorees 2007 Honorees 2007 honorees, from left: Carmen Delgado Votaw, Dr. Bernice Sandler, and Dr. Roselyn Epps The event was emceed by Katharine Helen Thomas has been cited as one of the Weymouth , the new publisher of The 25 Most Influential Women in America, Dr. Roselyn Payne Epps is a nationally Washington Post and granddaughter of and is often called "The First Lady of the respected physician who broke down . Press." She is the former UPI White House barriers for women in medicine. In 1980, Bureau Chief, and has covered every she was appointed the first Acting president since John F. Kennedy. Ms. Commissioner of Health for the District of Mary Frances Berry is best known as the Thomas was the only female print Columbia. Since 1998, she has served as a outspoken member of the U.S. 05

COMMUNITY OUTREACH AND EDUCATION Commission on Civil Rights under Ms. Morella recently returned to the U.S. President Carter, who was fired by Marion Ein Lewin , a Holocaust survivor, after serving as Ambassador to the President Reagan for criticizing his civil is nationally recognized for her Organization for Economic Cooperation rights policies. She won reinstatement in distinguished career in health care policy and Development. federal district court. In 1993, President and particularly for serving as a “guiding Clinton designated her Chairperson of the light and mentor” in training talented has worked Civil Rights Commission, where she health care professionals to assume tirelessly on behalf of persons with served until December, 2004. Under Dr. leadership roles in federal health care disabilities for the past four decades. At a Berry's leadership, the Commission issued policy and programs. From 1987 to 2001, time when there was considerable stigma several important reports, including an she served as senior staff officer at the associated with having a disabled child, investigation of eligible voters who were Institute of Medicine directing the Robert she founded the Special Olympics, and told they could not vote during the Wood Johnson Health Policy Fellowships remained Honorary Chair of what became November 2000 election in Florida. She is Program, the American Association of a highly visible international movement on the faculty of the University of Nurses Nurse Scholar Program, and the “to demonstrate that people with mental retardation are capable of remarkable achievements in sports, education, employment, and beyond.” Today the Special Olympics serves more than 2 million athletes in 150 countries. Shriver has been recognized with numerous honors and awards, including The Presidential Medal of Freedom in 1984.

Friday Luncheon Series

On selected Fridays throughout the year, NRC hosts a luncheon devoted to controversial, cutting-edge health issues. We invite policy experts and researchers to Foremother Honorees from left: Mary Frances Berry, Edith Fierst, NRC President Diana Zuckerman, Connie Morella, Emcee Katherine Weymouth, Marion Ein Lewin. provide objective, useful information on such issues. The luncheons, held at the Pennsylvania. national office of the Pew Health Policy Washington law offices of Reed Smith, are Program. free and open to the public. The luncheons Edith Fierst is an attorney who dedicated provide first-rate speakers and foster much of her legal career to improving Connie Morella won a seat in the topical discussions. Sponsors include retirement benefits for women. She has General Assembly in 1978 and Corner Bakery Café Catering and Chevy been a strong and effective voice of reason, went on to be the first woman from the Chase Bank. Lunches in 2007 and 2008 protecting the economic safeguards for Assembly to be elected to U.S. House of included the following: retired women by strengthening the Social Representatives. During her eight terms, Security program. From 1994 until 1996, she was often the lead Republican on • What Works Best to Prevent Cancer: she served on President Clinton’s legislation to support medical research and The Real News Behind the Headlines . Advisory Council on Social Security. In her to improve the lives of women and Larissa Korde, MD from the National Can - private practice, she was instrumental in families. She was instrumental in cer Institute and Dr. Janet Phoenix, Direc - improving women’s financial security by generating bipartisan support for those tor of Policy Research at NRC spoke at this increasing access to pension benefits bills, becoming co-chair of the luncheon through divorce settlements. Congressional Caucus for Women's Issues. 06 COMMUNITY OUTREACH AND EDUCATION • Which are Safest: The Risks of Soaps, Speeches cer survivors and public policies to pre - Creams, and other Care Products on the vent and treat cancer. It brought attention Health of Women and Children? This Below is just a sample of speeches and to an important new book by Dr. Devra luncheon featured speaker Jane Houlihan, addresses in 2007 and 2008: Davis, The Secret History of the War on Can - Vice President for Research, Environmen - cer , as well as to a beautiful book for cancer tal Working Group. • Dr. Zuckerman spoke about NRC and survivors, Connie Reider’s In Shadow and health policy to the Congressional Fellows Light: Looking for the Gifts of Cancer . • The Myth and Reality of Dietary Sup - at an event sponsored by the Women’s Re - plements. Lesley Fair, Senior Attorney at search and Educational Institute on Capi - • We hosted a Capitol Hill briefing on the FTC’s Bureau of Consumer Protection, tol Hill in February 2007. Women, Medical Product Safety, and the was the guest speaker. FDA in June 2008. Diana Zuckerman spoke • Dr. Zuckerman presented at the annual along with Dr. Kathleen Uhl, Director for • Can Being Green Improve Our Health? conference of the American Public Health Office of Women’s Health at the FDA; Dr. Bill Browning, Founding Partner of Terra - Association on the FDA and women’s Susan Wood, former Assistant Commis - pin Bright Green was the featured speaker. health, November 2007. sioner for Women’s Health and NRC Board Member; and Amy Allina, Policy • Cell phones and Your Health: How Safe • Dr. Zuckerman was the keynote speaker, Director for the National Women’s Health Are They and What’s the Safest Way to talking about childhood obesity, at the bi - Network. Use Them? This lunch featured NRC’s own ennial conference of Delta Kappa Gamma, Diana Zuckerman. an international honor society for women • NRC conducted numerous coalition educators in April 2008. meetings and conference calls in 2007 and • Buying Safe Toys and Gifts for the Holi - 2008 in its role as coordinater of the Patient days. NRC President Diana Zuckerman • Dr. Zuckerman was an invited speaker and Consumer Coalition, which includes spoke at this luncheon. at The Center for Science in the Public In - Consumers Union, the Center for Science terest’s Fourth National Integrity in Sci - in the Public Interest, the Union of Con - Every year the Center also hosts a very ence Conference where she spoke on cerned Scientists, the National Women’s popular luncheon for summer interns from “Reducing Conflicts of Interest on Federal Health Network, Center for Medical Con - across the country. In both 2007 and 2008, Advisory Committees.” sumers, the National Consumer League, our topic was body image and the guest Title II Community AIDS Action Network, speaker was the FTC’s Lesley Fair. the Government Accountability Project, Events and Coalition Building Our Bodies Ourselves, the Breast Cancer NRC provides policymakers with an Fund, Breast Cancer Action, WoodyMat - unbiased explanation of scientific data so • In the summer of 2007, NRC hosted an - ters, and U.S. PIRG. that they can make educated decisions for other media training workshop for non- their constituents and the nation. Our profit organizations. Turner Strategies research and advocacy work represents the generously donated its staff and time for interests of ordinary women and families, the event. The organizations participating who are often left out of policy debates. included the National Women’s Health We educate leaders in our nation’s capital Network, American College of Medical and across the country. We also helped Genetics, The National Academies, the organize the Patient and Consumer American Association for the Advance - Coalition to educate members of Congress ment of Science, the American Association about the need for stronger FDA of University Women, and the American safeguards. Lung Association.

• NRC’s Capitol Hill reception and book signing in September 2007 celebrated can - 07 MEDIA & COMMUNICATIONS ACTIVITIES

Associated Press, , and Dow Jones, 2007, the Web site has gone from receiving as well as in popular magazines and received 3,500 hits per month to over medical journals such as The National 15,000 most months in 2008. Enquirer and the New England Journal of Medicine . With the help of our interns, we have established a presence on Facebook and Regional Newspapers and Their Web MySpace to reach out to young people. Sites Among the many Web sites that The Akron Beacon Journal, Anchorage Daily mentioned or quoted NRC were: News, Bakersfield Californian, The Boston BlackAmericaWeb, Bloomberg, CBSNews, Globe, Chicago Sun Times, Clarion-Ledger, CNBC, CNN, FoxNews, The Huffington Columbus Dispatch, The Desert Sun, Detroit Post, Kaiser Network Daily Report, In the News Free Press, The Miami Herald, New Jersey MarketWatch, Medical News Today, Star-Ledger, Oregon Daily Emerald, Palm Medline Plus, The Gray Sheet, In 2007 and 2008, the media continued to Beach Post, Paramus Post, Philadelphia WashingtonPost, WebMD, Women’s e- turn to NRC for timely health and medical Weekly, The Press of Atlantic City, The news, and Worldpress. information from a credible source. We Sacramento Bee, Seattle Post-Intelligencer, responded to frequent requests from Southern Illinoisan, The Times Herald-Record, Books, Book Chapters, and Articles reporters and producers across the country Tri-City Record, and Winona Daily News . in Professional Journals for information, comments and interviews. Op-eds and letters to the editor from NRC International News Outlets • In late 2008, Quill Corporation published staff appeared regularly. The following is The Survival Guide for Working Moms (and just a small sample of our coverage in International and foreign language media Other Stressed-Out Adults) , written by 2007-2008: outlets that covered NRC include Canada’s Diana Zuckerman and NRC National Post , Canada.com , The Guardian Communications Director, Brandel France Television and Radio Unlimited (UK) , The Tehran Times , and El de Bravo. Pregonero . NRC staff were interviewed on numerous • Diana Zuckerman wrote the chapter, national television programs as well as by Online “Ethics of Inclusion and Exclusion: Race, many local affiliates. Television and radio Gender and Age” in the forthcoming book, broadcasts include: The CBS Evening News Our Web sites—center4research.org and The Penn Center Guide to Bioethics . with Katie Couric , CNBC, MSNBC’s brestimplantinfo.org—are reaching more Hardball with Chris Matthews , the individuals around the world each year. • Diana Zuckerman co-authored the Washington affiliates of ABC and NBC, During 2007-08, NRC’s primary Web site article, “Teenagers and Cosmetic Surgery: The Rachel Ray Show , National Public Radio received up to 226,000 hits per month. The Focus on Breast Augmentation and (Morning Edition and All Things Web site dedicated to breast implant Liposuction” that appeared in the October Considered ), and Univision Radio. information averaged more than a million 2008 issue of Journal of Adolescent Health . hits per month both years. Many Internet National Newspapers and Periodicals users are spending hours on each Web site, • Diana Zuckerman’s article “Do Conflicts confirmation that NRC is a voice people of Interest Undermine FDA Approval NRC and comments by staff were cited in trust to provide the information they need. Decision” appeared in the national newspapers, including USA September/October 2008 issue of The Today , The New York Times , The Wall Street NRC launched a Spanish-language Web Regulatory Affairs Journal . Journal , , Congressional site on breast implants in 2007 Quarterly Weekly , and wire services such as (www.implantesdemama.org). Since July ADVISORY BOARD & SUPPORTERS NATIONAL ADVISORY PRESIDENT’S CIRCLE FOREMOTHER AWARDS BOARD DONORS PATRONS

The Honorable Rosa DeLauro George Thomas Beall Trailblazers (CT) William Brannigan Mark Ein Mark Frankel, PhD, AAAS Dr. Omega Logan Silva Dr. Nancy Hardt Pat Hendel, Commissions for Women Alan Mendelson Leaders

Phyllis Katz, PhD Institute for Dr. Barry Zuckerman George Thomas Beall Research on Social Problems LEADERSHIP CIRCLE Catherine Joyce Sally Kenney, PhD, Univ. of DONORS Minnesota Center for Women & Phyllis Weisenfelder Public Policy Dr. Wendy Braund Dr. Susan Wood Rebecca Klemm, PhD Klemm Linda Dusenbery Analysis Group Admirers Mathea Falco Irene S. Levine, PhD NYU Esthy Adler School of Medicine Mary Hager Anne Keifhaber and Willis Lisa Lopez, JD, Haemonetics Judith Harris Goldbeck

Mary McDonough, Actress and Dr. Irene Levine Dr. and Mrs. R.E. Keifhaber Director Deborah R. Maiese Supporters Shari Miles, PhD, American Psychological Association Cynthia Pearson Dr. Wendy Braund

The Honorable Olympia Snowe Bonnie E. Thomson Heea Fales (ME) Dr. David Intocaso Judy Woodruff, The NewsHour with Jim Lehrer Amy Lambrecht

Elinor Soloman

Sarah Stewart STATEMENT OF FINANCIAL POSITION

ASSETS 2007 2006 Current Assets Cash and cash equivalents $272,353 $321,980 Accounts recievable 318 13,700 Prepaid Expenses 12,257 13,230 Total current assets 284,928 348,910

Property and equipment Furniture, fixtures and equipment 5,680 5,680 Less: depreciation -5,680 -5,680

Other assets Deposits 6,409 6409 Investment-donated stock 1,183 0

Total current assets $292,520 $355,319

LIABILITIES Current liabilities Accounts payable & accrues expenses 12,277 19,053

Total current liabilities 12,277 19,053

NET ASSETS Unrestricted 244,084 265,011 Temporarily restricted 36,159 71,255 Total Net Assets 280,243 336,266

REVENUE 2007 2006 EXPENSES

Foundation Grants 389,412 (86%) 467,667 (85%) Program Services 496,318 (97%) 599,985 (97%) Contributions 35,892 (7.9%) 33,859 (6.2%) Fundraising 10,235 (2.3%) 14,535 (2.3%) Conferences/Events 13,912 (3%) 6,143 (1.1%) Administration 405 (.07%) 360 (.05%) Interest 10,239 (2.2%) 10,151 (1.8%) Total Expenses $506,958 $614,880 Total Revenue $450,935 $545,618

Interest 2% Administration .07% Fundraising Conferences/Events 2.3% 3%

Contributions 7.9%

Foundation Grants Program Services 86% 97%