New Year’s resolutions are made and broken by most people soon after the list is made. It is often difficult to imagine how to make a resolution that will change [...]

The National Alliance for Caregiving and AARP have just released a new report about caregivers in the United States, an update of the last one issued in 2004. In [...]

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 [...]

The following post first appeared on Dr. Allen’s Huffington Post blog, as an urgent message to her fellow physicians. — Ed.
Patients with menopausal syndrome are flocking to infomercial doctors. They [...]

Writer, commentator and humorist Julie Danis is a Chicago-based strategic marketing professional, and a consumer insights lecturer at Northwestern University. She’s worked for Frito-Lay, Inc. and held senior level [...]

I felt I was attacking that pie in my speech on the perils of a positive attitude, but I’m tired of people telling me how to feel. I gave a [...]

My friend Adam Dolle wrote me last week to let me know that his mother, Viola Dolle, had died after only a brief illness. Mrs. Dolle was a devout Catholic [...]

We at WVFC were thrilled to discover an essential new resource and “neighbor” on the World Wide Web:  eCareDiary.com, an online community formed in late 2008 for those of us [...]

Military Rape Awareness Week only comes to life with the story of those who’ve survived it over the years. One such story is that of former Pvt. Colleen Mussolino, [...]

I began to focus on the menopausal transition in 1991, when Gail Sheehy asked me to consult with her on her book The Silent Passage. What an incredible and unique [...]