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Family & Friends · General Medical

A Special Assignment

By Julie M. Danis
Special work assignments usually offer special experiences. Like the time I cooked and test-marketed new hamburger sandwiches — mushroom Swiss and pizza barbecue — as part of a promotion for a fast-food chain, or when I ran catering triage behind the scenes of a professional golf tournament. These out-of-the-office jobs opened my eyes to real assembly-line production and the unglamorous…
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General Medical · Health

My mammogram story

By Shelley Singer
I am in a high-risk category for breast cancer. My mother has had it twice. I am 59 and have been having mammograms since I was 40. I examine myself (none too thoroughly) and have manual breast exams every three months.  I took Tamoxifen for five years, prophylactically, after research and discussions with my doctors about a study suggesting that…
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General Medical · Health · News

Health Mix: Stumbling Onto A Female Viagra?; New Mammogram Guidelines Confuse, Enrage; Michelle Obama on Older Women And Health Care Reform

By Women's Voices For Change
Equality with Viagra? We don’t know about you, but WVFC was more than a little startled to learn that there’s an organization called the “European Society for Sexual Medicine.” We’ve also been a little skeptical of all these drug-industry studies calling lack of desire a disorder, though one such study issued in January stated that women reporting less desire were…
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General Medical · Menopause

Ten Myths About “Bio-identical” Hormones

By Streicher, M.D. Lauren
Bioidentical is not a scientific term. It is a term made up by savvy market research gurus to describe certain plant-derived hormones distributed by compounding pharmacies. The use of the word” bioidentical” is brilliant. It’s catchy. It sounds “natural.” It sounds like something different than a hormone product produced and distributed by commercial pharmacies. Promoters of bioidentical hormones claim that…
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Lifestyle

Back to school? Now, when I was your age..

By Billie Brown
I’m so old that there was no kindergarten when I was 5 years old. I started first grade in Kansas, and when I met my teacher I told her, “I will endeavor to be a good pupil.” She looked at me like I was a hurricane, then burst out laughing and hugged me. We must have learned lots of things,…
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Lifestyle

Labor Day’s ambivalent spark

By Diane Vacca
Labor Day is a bittersweet time: Janus-like, the end of summer and the start of the academic year have me looking forward and back at the same time. I don’t want summer to end— night falls sooner and cooler, a sure harbinger of cold, dark winter nights to come, when green turns dry and brown, its life drained into the…
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General Medical

Dr. Melanie Katzman: On Eating Disorders and Midlife

By Dr. Melanie Katzman
As a specialist in women’s mental health, I am often asked, “does one ever recover from an eating disorder?” To this the answer is a resounding yes, provided one learns  to set realistic expectations,  discovers alternative ways to nourish themselves physically and emotionally and devel ops alternative ways of coping with stress . Easier said than done but, it is…
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Health · Money & Careers · News

Kidney Transplants, Sick People and Sick Banks: An Exchange

By Patricia Yarberry Allen, M.D.
In the current era of debate about health-care costs, last week’s Newsmix item on kidney transplants sounded an alarm here at WVFC. One reader, Rita Prangle, asked the question on many minds: The study authors’ belief that doctors consider women frailer than their male counterparts doesn’t make sense. We’re all aware that women live longer than men. I wonder if…
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Lifestyle

“How Old Are You?” Asked the Boy With Amber Eyes

By Zeitvogel Karin
Crescent moon By Karin Zeitvogel His name meant ‘moon’ in Arabic. Hilal. Crescent moon. He was a young Bedouin, a man-child with eyes of translucent amber and skin as smooth as the sandstone aqueducts leading to Petra, Jordan’s wonder of the world, that have been burnished by the ceaseless passage of water. His eyes twinkled like stars in the night…
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General Medical

News Brief:Fewer Children After 40; Real Anti-Aging Solutions Beat Back Wrinkles; A Mikvah for Menopause; Better Health Care in Thailand?

By Womens Voices for Change
Powerful lives, children powerful but optional. This week, newspapers and cable TV buzzed with the news that compared to 1970, far fewer number of women over 40 have children. And despite popular misconceptions about IVF-stimulated multiple births, older women who do have children have much smaller families: The number of women ages 40 to 44 who remain childless has doubled…
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Politics

New Poll: Obama Struggling With Older Women Voters

By Womens Voices for Change
Barack Obama makes a lot of folks swoon…maybe even a few behind the burka as he lands in Afghanistan today. But it seems like older women are so far resisting his charms. Obama advisors told a Congressional caucus a few weeks ago that disappointed Hillary Clinton supporters should just "get over it." (That didn't go down too well with a…
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