Health News Mix: Slow Medicine; Hormone Therapy Affects Mammogram Results; Breast Cancer and Wage Loss; More on “Health-Care Muckraker” Barbara Seaman
February 29, 2008 by Women's Voices For Change
A Dose of Slow Medicine: Abigail Zuber, M.D., dicusses "slow medicine" — described as "a family-centered, less expensive" alternative to hospital-based, high-tech impersonal treatments.
This approach is the focus of [...]
Sniff it Up!
February 28, 2008 by Women's Voices For Change
by Liz Smith | bio
Once upon a time, nobody knew what being "allergic" was.
Growing up I knew lots of folks who had what they called "hay fever" — [...]
Success On My Terms: Finding Personal and Professional Satisfaction Across Continents
February 27, 2008 by Women's Voices For Change
by Ooi-Thye Chong
The 14-day celebration of the Lunar Chinese New Year recently concluded. This year marks the Year of the Rat. I've lived in New York for 18 years, and [...]
News Mix: Women’s Health Activist Barbara Seaman Dies; Edit Wharton’s Home Faces Foreclosure; Rallying for Women’s Sports; Toasting the Oscar Winner “Freeheld”
February 27, 2008 by Women's Voices For Change
Barbara Seaman: A Remembrance: Jennifer Baumgardner writes about her friend Barbara Seaman, who died early this morning of lung cancer. The feminist author and women’s health activist was 72.
Call for [...]
How We See: The Beauty of Older Bodies
February 26, 2008 by Alice Ray Cathrall
by Alice R. Cathrall
What visual information do we gather to pass through our days?
I am studying art at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Art in Philadelphia, and a significant [...]
Where Did the Money Go?: Women Burned by Subprime Mortgage Industry
February 25, 2008 by Elizabeth Hemmerdinger
by Elizabeth Hemmerdinger | bio
So it’s come to this: Real estate agents organizing bus tours for potential home buyers to visit foreclosed properties. The house-hunting-by-bus story is in [...]
“Falling” for the Academy Awards: Bad Boys, Classy Women and Steven Spielberg’s Menopause Moment
February 25, 2008 by Patricia Yarberry Allen
by Patricia Yarberry Allen, MD | bio
I watched the 80th anniversary of the Academy Awards last night with hundreds of millions of viewers around the world. I loved the [...]
And the Winner Is … Us
February 22, 2008 by Laura Baudo Sillerman
by Laura Sillerman | bio
Oh, please. Don't try to tell us you wouldn't take the pen name of Diablo Cody or take a year off to experience the life of [...]
The New York Times is Back on the Rumor Mill with John McCain
February 21, 2008 by Patricia Yarberry Allen
by Patricia Yarberry Allen, MD | bio
The New York Times is at it again. First it was Sen. Barack Obama and front-page questions about his youthful drug use. Today [...]
De-Evolutionary Teaching: Florida and the “Theory” of Evolution
February 21, 2008 by Robin Gerber
by Robin Gerber | bio
Students in Florida haven’t been doing well on national science exams. So, what’s a board of education to do?
Why, pass a new curriculum that mandates [...]
