In the News: Breast Cancer and Booze
This week brought more information for women to consider as they choose whether to alter their lives to decrease the risk of developing breast cancer.
This week brought more information for women to consider as they choose whether to alter their lives to decrease the risk of developing breast cancer.
Internet dating is the 21st century version of the blind date. It has replaced the hook-ups of the eighties, the bar scene of the seventies, the rock festivals of the sixties, and the mixers of the fifties, as the way men and women meet and get together. And who’s leading the digital dating pack? The New York Times reports that singles 55 and up “are visiting American dating sites more than any other age group.”
Her name was Constance Laibe Hays. She had several beats at the New York Times before she died at 44. Today when Jill Abramson’s appointment as executive editor of The Times was announced I could hear her cheer.
Abramson will be the first woman to lead the newsroom in the newspaper's 160-year history.
As a physical therapist for more than thirty years, I have witnessed time and again patients who surpass their expected potential due to sheer willpower and “fighting spirit.”
Endocrinologist and WVFC Medical Advisory Board member Naina Sinha weighs in on that report questioning the need for calcium and vitamin D.
A “historian’s dream” or a “diplomat’s nightmare?” Welcome to the new reality of the modern information age.
If you were alarmed by the recent New York Times article on hormone therapy, you’re not alone. The day it came out, my computer crashed with hundreds of emails from worried women. Here are the less scary facts.
A friend's memorial to her dad reminds me of our school days, and the time we stole away from school for an afternoon at the museum.