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 had a mammogram in the previous two years went from 76.4 percent to 74.6 percent between 2000 and 2005. The AP reports (via the Washington [...]

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 been together for a decade and wanted their friends to join them in their celebration of this milestone. About halfway through the cocktail hour, [...]

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 public-health issue." Dove Kicks Off Next Phase of "Campaign for Real Beauty": "Dove Pro-Age puts a more upbeat spin on the traditional ‘anti-’ used to [...]

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 rates are down, presumably because fewer women are using hormone therapy systemically. Should I stop using my estrogen patch? Dr. Pat: If a patient [...]

"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 would have been looking forward with relish to a mid-February date. No, not the one where hearts and flowers are taped to every grade [...]

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. You may do it in your late 40s, you may not do it till your 70s, but if you don’t do it voluntarily, the [...]

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 population affairs at the Department of Health and Human Services. Keroack oversees the $288 million Title X program, the only federal program "designed to provide [...]

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 decade of domination by the younger generation of Hollywood actresses, including Hilary Swank, Reese Witherspoon and Charlize Theron — the last three Best Actress [...]

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 changing a tradition to realign our view of the future and distance us from the fading patterns of the past? There is a theory [...]

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 other people — if she were lucky enough to live that long. That perception is changing, however, thanks in part to the realization that [...]