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Health Care in the debate:

By Womens Voices for Change
Managing chronic illnesses like diabetes has now been proposed.  This is something that we can solve  with universal weight control and exercise. McCain hammering the obesity problem too. McCain wants walk in clinics and 5000.00 for health insurance.  Joe The Plumber is now sick.  Women watching are sick too. McCain now saying that we will get Universal Health Care with…
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Politics

Pre-Debate Buzz: What Can We Actually Learn?

By Womens Voices for Change
This pre-debate Newsmix is later than it should be. The news itself felt more sparse — perhaps lost in bytoday's round of hard economic news, perhaps simply waiting till things got started. But here are some gems to soothe the antsy if you don't want to listen to yakking commentators. At the New York Times, Katherine Seelye gives her usual…
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Money & Careers

Faith Based Dollars

By Elizabeth Hemmerdinger
I feel the only way I can stay sane through this financial mess is to learn everything I possibly can. It's a way of keeping some control, I suppose. I have long — well, forever — allowed myself to be overwhelmed by talk about economics and finances. I'm a woman, was a girl, love literature and nature. You know the…
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News

News Brief: Selina Scott Sues TV Channel for Ageism; Heart Attack Recovery via The Gym; At 41, Kimberly Pierce Doesn’t Cry

By Womens Voices for Change
Doing more than protest: When management at Britain’s Channel 5 asked Selina Scott, 57, if she’d be available to cover for anchor Natasha Kaplinsky’s maternity leave, she said yes and marked her calendar. When instead the channel tapped Isla Traquair aged 28 and Matt Barbet aged 32, Scott did more than complain. She hired a lawyer:  “TThe Channel and the…
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News

Iron Jawed Angels on HBO and in Real Life

By Patricia Yarberry Allen, M.D.
It has been a long while since Women’s Voices for Change has posted any news of ourselves.  Early on, many of you came to rely on us for a kind of open door/open mouth policy wherewith we invited you in for coffee and showed you the new underwear we’d just purchased.  Those were the heady days of our beginning and…
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Fitness · General Medical · Health

Health News Mix: Celadrin Tigerettes in Saturday’s Senior Games; Value of a Presidential Physical; Domestic Abuse and Older Women; Vitamin D and Breast Cancer; Two Versions of Care …

By Womens Voices for Change
Think You Got Game?: The Hartford Courant reports on the Celadrin Tigerettes, an all-women’s basketball team based in Baton Rouge, La., that will be competing Saturday in the Connecticut Senior Games. Korky Vann writes: With a record of 157-3, along with five Senior Olympics gold medals, the six women, all over 60 and all grandmothers, have picked up more broken…
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News

News Mix: “Sex and the City” Returns; Federal Judge Joins Blogosphere; Million Women March; Women’s Signature Effort During WWII …

By Womens Voices for Change
The Foursome Returns: The long-awaited “Sex and the City” movie opens at midnight tonight. Bob Thompson of The National Post interviews Kim Cattrall, 51, about reprising her character, Samantha: As usual, Cattrall’s Samantha tells it like it is — just as she did on the show, elevating the status of the single professional woman from uncool to very hip. “In…
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Money & Careers

News Mix: Hillary Clinton’s Future; Backlash Against Female Gains; Reinventing Yourself Without Wealth; Light Alcohol Consumption May Help Bones …

By Womens Voices for Change
No Clear Map for Clinton’s Political Future: In a page one story today, the Washington Post looks at Sen. Hillary Clinton’s future in the Senate, assuming she does not win the Democratic nomination: Speaking on the condition of anonymity, many Democratic senators said they expect Clinton to work doggedly for Obama this summer and fall, and they agreed that if…
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Arts & Culture · Film & Television

News Mix: Female Veterans Not Getting Needed Care; 340 Years Without a Female Poet Laureate; Tremors in Oprahland; Older Women Bloggers …

By Womens Voices for Change
Tremors in Oprahland: "Oprah Winfrey is still the queen of all media, but her crown is beginning to look a bit tarnished," writes Edward Wyatt in The New York Times, citing three straight years of audience decline of "The Oprah Winfrey Show." The circulation of O, The Oprah Magazine, has fallen by more than 10 percent in the last three…
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Arts & Culture · Health · News · Politics

News Mix: Faye Dunaway on Not Getting to Play the Love Interest; Older Women Stick with Clinton; Women Under-Represented in Clinical Trials; New WSJ “Journal Women” …

By Womens Voices for Change
Question of the Day: Faye Dunaway is angry with Hollywood film producers for not having enough roles for older women. Dunaway, 67, said: “I am furious that they think I’m too old to play the love interest of guys like Jack Nicholson and Clint Eastwood. Why should I play sisters and mothers while guys like Jack and Clint, who are…
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News

News Mix: Sexism Goes Mainstream, and a Video Shows Us Mad as Hell; Skipping Menopauseland; Katie Couric’s Voyage with CBS; Support for New Mothers Over 40 …

By Womens Voices for Change
It’s Now Mainstream to be Sexist: “We have only begun to feel the damage of the punch-and-pummel pundits who couldn’t wrap their limited minds around the first woman to win a presidential primary, again and again,” writes columnist Connie Schultz, who calls the video, “Hillary Clinton: Mad as Hell,” “required viewing for anyone who claims that gender has not played…
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Health

Health News Mix: Probiotics and the Business of Bacteria; High Heels and Your Health; Determining Your Own Osteoporosis Risk; Vitamin D Deficiency Linked to Breast Cancer; More Americans Taking Prescription Medicines …

By Womens Voices for Change
On Your Feet: Ever wonder exactly how wearing high heels affects your body? This Washington Post graphic shows the effect on feet, ankles, knees and posture. Included are links to a number of related stories; don’t miss this overview and advice on how to be kind to your feet. The Business of Bacteria: The L.A. Times reports on the popularity…
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Arts & Culture · Money & Careers · Politics

News Mix: Hillary Clinton’s Historic Candidacy; Dove Anti-Ageism Campaign Hits Stage; Advice on How to Age (Not Anti-Aging Advice); Women’s Equity Fund Holds its Own; PBS and the Prevention of Alzheimer’s Disease

By Womens Voices for Change
How Clinton Handles Her Candidacy’s Historic Nature: Today on NPR’s "Morning Edition," David Greene looked at how Clinton initially distanced herself from making her campaign about gender and how that changed somewhat after New Hampshire, where she found her "voice." Dove Anti-Ageism Campaign Hits Stage: "Body & Soul," starring women age 45 to 78, opened this weekend at Toronto’s Young…
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