Have you read the latest news regarding mammograms? According to a study by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the share of women 40 and older who said they [...]

by Laura Sillerman
Last Saturday evening, my friend whom I shall call Cathy was invited to a couple’s anniversary party by a friend she’s known since kindergarten. "Sarah" and "Jeff" had [...]

Pause for Concern: Margaret Morganroth Gullette, a contributor to the new "Our Bodies, Ourselves: Menopause," writes in The American Prospect Online, "It is hormone treatment, not menopause, that is the [...]

Have a question about women’s health or menopause? Dr. Patricia Yarberry Allen may have the answer. Click here to send in your question to be posted on WVFC.

Question: Breast cancer [...]

"The greatest of all mistakes is to do nothing because you can only do a little. Do what you can."- Liz Smith
Were we blogging last year at this time, WVFC [...]

by Laura Sillerman
“I found, after several years of research, that everyone — no matter how much money or achievement you’ve attained or not attained — must go through the narrows. [...]

by Elizabeth Hemmerdinger | bio
Thank you, Stacy Schiff, for bringing to our attention a fallacious attempt to co-opt women’s hormones by Eric Keroack, the new deputy assistant secretary for [...]

Each Friday, WVFC will publish a round-up of stories about — and of particular interest to — women over 40. Today we focus our lens on women in film.
"After a [...]

by Laura Sillerman
We’ve all moved a sofa and transformed a living room or hung a mirror where that hat rack used to be and had an epiphany. But what about [...]

by Lorraine DeLuca
It wasn’t so long ago that a woman in her 80s was expected to be frail, permanently hunched over, and dependent on a cane and the kindness of [...]