Survey Says….Warning! This week's  USC survey  of relative happiness levels had good news and bad for midlife women. Women tend to be happier, even past 40. But just when [...]

By Dr. Patricia Yarberry Allen
I am a 48 year old woman and I had my last period 2 years ago.  I was never very athletic and have had no [...]

Mystery readers may know Ruth Rendell for her popular Inspector Wexford books, or else the procedurals she authors as Barbara Vine. But she’s also a member of the British [...]

Look to the women, says McCain: Cindy McCain, that is. While her husband’s political opponent charmed the media with his cross-country trip, the founder and funder of the American Voluntary [...]

What glass ceiling? younger women ask. Writing from  Fortune Magazine’s "Most Powerful Women" summit in San Francisco, editor at large Patricia Sellers notes that younger and older women reported very [...]

No reason to wait: Researchers in New Zealand urge earlier screenings for breast cancer – while admitting that the benefits they predict can’t happen unless more women take advantage of [...]

I Said, Party of One: This week,  a new AARP study confirms what many of us already knew:  for many older women,  living alone is not a sad state but [...]

Dreams can make money, too: Forbes magazine loves to release lists of people who make ton more money than you. In the new "Celebrity 100" list of the world’s most [...]

Because you keep putting off that mammogram: For those of us who find mammograms awkward, uncomfortable, even painful, the news this week buzzed with possibly-helpful ideas:
A little lidocaine might help. [...]

It’s time, Navy captain tells Congress: Alert watchers of Good Morning America last week saw the unflinching face of Captain Joan Darrah, a 30-year Navy veteran preparing for today’s Congressional [...]