In Case You Missed It: WVFC’s Medical Advisory Board on Screening
November 29, 2009 by Women's Voices for Change Medical Advisory Board

Recently, as most of us were worrying about how holiday meals, travel and work schedules would work out, new screening guidelines for women came forth from the august American College [...]
Read More »Reflections on Thanksgiving, Gratitude, Peace
November 26, 2009 by Laura Baudo Sillerman

I type this reflection on giving thanks with seriously blistered left thumb and middle finger—glue gun injuries sustained while making the walnut and filbert peace wreath this morning. I’m grateful. [...]
Read More »Thanksgiving Day: A Day of Introspection and Gratitude
November 26, 2009 by Patricia Yarberry Allen

I did not feel well enough to travel this holiday. Normally, I would have pushed my way through it, but my husband gave me this gift of the day, the [...]
Read More »Thanksgiving Subterranean Table Top Blues
November 26, 2009 by Mare Contrare

Apparently, everyone is stressed out because of Thanksgiving, and for good reasons. Family members awaken the week before with nightmares about being criticized for the umpteenth time about their choice [...]
Read More »Thankful for My Aunts
November 25, 2009 by Elizabeth Willse

My mom is one of six sisters. Every Thanksgiving, my mother’s family gathers at Aunt Ruthanne and Uncle Ron’s house in Connecticut. The table stretches from the dining room into [...]
Read More »The Compass Rose: Thicker Than Water
November 25, 2009 by Ainslie Jones Uhl

“Let’s have a family Thanksgiving,” I said to my friend Mary, “without any blood relatives.” It was a time a few years ago when I had had my fill of [...]
Read More »A Week of Recipes and Gratitude Lists
November 24, 2009 by Billie Brown

This week, many or most Americans will sit down to a traditional or not-so-traditional meal of turkey – alternatively, on both ends of the spectrum, turducken or tofurkey – and [...]
Read More »The Loss of the Yearly Pap Smear
November 24, 2009 by Elizabeth Poynor, MD

Last week was a perfect storm for women’s healthcare as we know it, and many are questioning whether these changes would, in fact, be detrimental to women. Just as the [...]
Read More »What I’m Thankful for: My Beautiful Black Dad
November 24, 2009 by Olga Statz

I am staggered by my good fortune. God saw fit to give me my very own Hero.
My hero doesn’t wear a cape, and he doesn’t fly, but that is his [...]
A Breast Surgeon’s Comment On Those Breast Cancer Guidelines
November 23, 2009 by Alisan B. Goldfarb, M.D., F.A.C.S.

As a practicing breast surgeon and member of the Medical Advisory Board of Women’s Voices for Change, I was asked to review the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force (USPSTF)’s recommendation [...]
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