Breast Cancer Action is seeking a Deputy Director to help lead the organization through a tremendous period of change and growth.

BCA is also seeking a Program Coordinator to assist with outreach, advocacy and engaging BCA’s members.

Over 2000 of you have sent letters, emails and postcards to General Mills urging them to make Yoplait Yogurt rBGH-free. If Wal-Mart and Starbucks and all of Europe can do it, Yoplait can too.

It’s not too late to take action by telling Yoplait to put a lid on rBGH.

See General Mills’ reply to your requests and our response.

Knowing Pains: Women on Love, Sex and Work in our 40s provides brutally honest, touching and funny essays about women in their 40s.

Plus, 100% of all net profits will be donated to BCA!

Find an event in your area and purchase your copy today!

BCA's Executive Director, Barbara Brenner, speaks out in an intelligent and compelling TV news feature by respected Bay Area journalist John Fowler.

Watch the video.

BCA’s post on Our Bodies, Our Blog addresses health inequities, and our belief that it’s not just genes, but social injustices, that lead to disparities in breast cancer.

Take a look.

The FDA ordered Amgen to change the label for its anemia drugs, Aranesp and Procrit.  In March, an FDA panel advised more restrictions for these drugs and this new label reflects most of those recommendations.

Meanwhile, Ortho Biotech is recalling one manufacturing lot (P114942A) of Procrit after finding cracks in the necks of some vials.

President Bush signed legislation that will ban six toxic phthalates from children’s products. The new law, which is part of a more comprehensive consumer products act, also bans lead from these items.

This is a huge victory for public health, and further drives home the message that Americans want government policies that will protect people from harmful chemicals.

We are pleased to announce BCA's special online issue of The Source presenting the results of our strategic planning process and the three priority areas. Take a look.

BCA's 2007 Annual Report is also online. 

Read it here.