virtually every medical discipline, there are unanswered questions pertaining to women’s health and well-being. Closing the gender gap in medical research may require more than simply including women in research studies, says Teresa Woodruff, executive director of the Institute for Women’s Health Research, recently launched by Northwestern University’s Feinberg School of Medicine.
Teresa Woodruff
Since the early [...]
Health was on everyone’s mind Saturday as thousands gathered in Orlando for the annual 100 Black Men of America conference.
Held at Disney’s Yacht & Beach Club Resorts, the five-day conference that ends today was focusing on health issues affecting the black community.
It included a Community Empowerment Project at Jones High School that featured free health [...]
While your article points out that I helped draft the principles for universal coverage outlined by the Institute of Medicine in 2004, it may create the impression that UnitedHealth Group was reluctant to support them when faced with a shareholder resolution.
In fact, our company has publicly embraced and acted on its commitment to universal access [...]
Here’s what’s not in dispute: The United States spends 16 percent of its national income on health care, more than any other country in the world. In return, we get lower life expectancy than most other Western countries, uneven care, and enormous anxiety about how to pay for it.
Who’s to blame? Not the hospitals and [...]
For many fans football in England is in danger of becoming too predictable, riven by two cavernous gaps: between the top four and the rest of the Premier League, and between the Premier League and the rest of football. But this year’s FA Cup has given the top flight a healthy blast of reality.I can [...]
Editor’s Note: This is the last in a series focusing on the different stages of caring for someone with Alzheimer’s disease and dementia though one family’s eyes. This week’s focus: caregiving in the severe stage.
The day after Christmas last year, Marjorie Jackson faced the most difficult decision of her life. One she was not prepared [...]
One of the best ideas is to grow as wide a variety of the vegetables you like as possible in sensible amounts. That way, if something fails, there will be other varieties to fall back on and different varieties will mature at different rates. It’s expensive if you have to fork out for a huge [...]
Roared on by a crowd of 27,000 at the Sydney Football Stadium, the Waratahs looked galvanised by the midweek decision not to renew coach Ewen McKenzies contract as they dominated throughout.
The error-ridden Blues meanwhile return to Auckland clinging to third spot on the points table but theyll be looking over their shoulders after their mediocre [...]
My mother wanted to protect us from Sophie’s more extreme paranoid ideas, so we were not taken to see her as children. But, as we got older, Jane told us about her; the good bits and the weird bits, shielding us from the worst. It was difficult to grasp who she really was or what [...]
Though they were largely untroubled by their three opponents today, they lacked both the fluency and urgency that won them the biggest tournament of the series last weekend.
However, they dispatched Scotland 38-10 after beating the Cook Islands 31-7 and Argentina 21-14 to skip into the quarterfinals.
The New Zealanders scored four tries through Nigel Hunt, Rene [...]
