"doctors" Articles & Blogs:
Haiti Ladies: A Benefit for Doctors Without Borders
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THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 4TH- 11PM @ LE POISSON ROUGE-NYC$10 Advance tix available http://www.lepoissonrouge.comHaiti Ladies: A Benefit for Doctors Without Bordersw/ Lady DJ's: Ari Up, Lady Miss Kier, Allison Wolfe. Kim Ann Foxman, Dirty Jean, Ilirjana, Aleix ....[Read on] |
Depressing: Pay Gap Even Affects Lady Doctors
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According to an article in the Wall Street Journal's The Juggle blog this morning, the pay gap affects all kinds of ladies, including those who are highly skilled in saving lives. The Juggle reports that a new study published in the February issue of Heal...[Read on] |
New Research Signals New Era for Ovarian Cancer Screening
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British doctors have found that they can screen for the deadly disease and catch it in early stages in some postmenopausal womenOvarian Cancer Screenings | Today 9:10 am
Here’s another good reason for women to get regular cancer screenings: doctors ma...[Read on] |
Opponents sparring in boxing debate
| The Australian Medical Association wants to ban children (under 18, do you suppose?) from boxing, and put strict laws in place to control the sport. One doctor in favor of the ban pointed to the injury rate in “non-contact sports” such as rugb...[Read on] |
Disappointing Development in the Trial for Tiller
| Sedgwick County District Judge Warren Wilbert ruled on Friday that defense attorneys can present evidence to support a conviction of "voluntary manslaughter," defined in Kansas law as '"an unreasonable but honest belief that circumstances existed that jus...[Read on] |
Mammamia! Italian Women Speak Out Against Sexism
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The United States, as well as many other countries, was created under a patriarchal foundation that women are constantly struggling with, and Italy is no exception. In fact, Italian women have to exist under triple threats of sexism: the government...[Read on] |
Jada Pinkett Smith Kicks Ass
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H/T to Black Box Office for posting this interview with Jada Pinkett Smith who stars in and executive produces the new TNT drama Hawthorne which will premiere in June.
Pinkett Smith was interviewed by NPR’s News and Notes and it is worth a listen. She...[Read on] |
5 myths about health care around the world
| Great piece to pass along to anyone caught in the health-care reform hysteria:
From T.R. Reid in the Washington Post:
As Americans search for the cure to what ails our health-care system, we've overlooked an invaluable source of ideas and solutions: the...[Read on] |
Florida bill would make abortion punishable by life in prison
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Rep. Charles Van Zant wants to criminalize abortion
Oh, Florida.
Sponsored by Rep. Charles Van Zant (R-Palatka), HB 1097 would criminalize abortion, and make for no exceptions for rape or incest. And then there's this:
Except in cases where a woman's...[Read on] |
Martina Navratilova battling cancer with Kilimanjaro climb
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Nine-time Wimbledon champion and retired tennis legend Martina Navratilova is refusing to let her recent breast cancer diagnosis slow her down – she’s preparing to climb Mount Kilimanjaro later this year.
Doctors caught the condition in its early s...[Read on] |
A Story of Survival – Joan Hyler
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One of the first “Hollywood” people who reached out to me when I started writing the blog was Joan Hyler. That totally made my day. Joan Hyler is one of the legendary female managers in the business. She’s the shit. Some of her long time cli...[Read on] |
Halftime: No time to quit - South Africa, HIV and how the World Cup has hidden an epidemic.
| Jamele Hill of ESPN writes one of the most poignent pieces on the HIV crisis in South Africa. With the World Cup as the backdrop and considering the continents economic and health crises , Hill shows how the world's biggest spectacle has worked to hide th...[Read on] |
Take a Volunteer Vacation
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My husband has a BIG birthday coming up next year and I want to take him on an international trip. I’ve been debating what type of excursion to plan. After reading Nola Lee Kelsey’s new book The Voluntary Traveler, I knew I’d found my answer: a vol...[Read on] |
The facts about cervical cancer
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Perhaps one of the most well known preventive cancer treatments it the HPV vaccine, Gardasil, which is one hundred percent effective in precluding the development of cervical cancers since it’s FDA approval in 2006.
Auspiciously, doctors are indicating...[Read on] |
The Facts About Cervical Cancer
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Perhaps one of the most well known preventive cancer treatments it the HPV vaccine, Gardasil, which is one hundred percent effective in precluding the development of cervical cancers since it’s FDA approval in 2006.
Auspiciously, doctors are indicating...[Read on] |
Car Care: Faith in Your Tech = Faith in Your Vehicle
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"I feel like such a fool," Sandra complained. "All I did was take my car in for an oil change and wound up paying for oil, an oil filter and an air filter. Plus, because he called to tell me my fan belt was shot, I had to get one of those installed.
"Ho...[Read on] |
Donate your car to the Songs of Love Car donation program
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The Songs of Love Foundation
is a national nonprofit organization that creates uplifting,
personalized songs for children and teens struggling with a
life-threatening illness or lifetime disability -- free of charge. Each
CD is professionally produced wi...[Read on] |
Toyota's Jim Lentz at NADA and the Importance of Women
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Last weekend at the NADA conference in San Francisco, Jim Lentz, President and COO of Toyota Motor Sales USA delivered a keynote speech on the state of the industry. In it he said that 2011 marks a new beginning for the industry, giving dealers a call ...[Read on] |
Sweat to Something New: Kettlebells
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From jazzercise to Zumba, a plethora of newfangled exercise regimens hit the market almost continuously. When my mom, a personal trainer, invited me to hit the gym with her to test out a new program she was offering to her clients, I didn’t think anythi...[Read on] |
Canadian skater Rochette talks about her mother
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One of the most memorable, and inspirational, stories from the recent Winter Olympics involves Canadian figure skating Joannie Rochette who took to the ice in Vancouver only days after her mother Therese, 55, died of a massive heart attack. Rochette, a ...[Read on] |
Pomegranate Dietary Supplements: Can You Ever Get Enough?
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Ah, that complex matrix of shiny, ruby red seeds with a pop of sweetness, yet a burst of tang. For some, pomegranates are just so utterly irresistible. And with what doctors and scientists are telling us, they’re also guilt-free.
As the years go by, mo...[Read on] |
Roe v. Wade Anniversary: Friday Night Lights and Private Practice tackle abortion
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Today is the anniversary of Roe v. Wade. While I don’t know if this is coincidental, two shows this week — Friday Night Lights and Private Practice — both had major storylines that tackled abortion worthy of a look.
The stories were about two ver...[Read on] |
Oscar-winning short Smile Pinki to air on HBO, June 3
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Megan and Pinki go to the Oscar
It’s hard to watch Megan Mylan’s Oscar winning short film Smile Pinki without having emotions. At the beginning it was sadness, but by the end you can’t stop smiling as much a Pinki the young Indian girl whose life...[Read on] |
Painful personal reminder to buckle up and drive safely this summer
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August 2, 2010 is the five year anniversary of my son’s car accident. He was driving his Toyota RAV4, lost control on a canyon road and went over the embankment tumbling down 350 feet to the bottom. He came to rest upside down, his 6 foot body cinched ...[Read on] |
Ain’t I a woman?
| This is the title of a speech given by African-American abolitionist and former slave, Sojourner Truth, in 1851 at a Women’s Rights Conference in Ohio. Her speech was in reaction to the privileges that white women had and the comparative silence about t...[Read on] |
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