A billboard advertisement for Bucknell University’s art gallery features a picture of 67-year-old Margaret Manchot, proud-faced and dressed only in a girdle alongside the slogan “Look at you loving me.” Manchot rests her hands behind her head in the picture and exudes confidence in herself, love handles, age spots and all. The picture was taken […]
Last month’s U.S. Supreme Court ruling that the Census Bureau must calculate actual head counts in addition to supplements by statistical sampling procedures will cost U.S. taxpayers an additional $2 billion. Census Bureau head Kenneth Prewitt noted that 2000 census figured gained through actual head counts will, like the 1990 census, be plagued with inaccuracies. […]
A report published in today’s Journal of the American Medical Association contends that the bacteria that cause bladder infections are becoming increasingly resistant to antibiotics, a problem that researchers describe as “worrisome.” Researchers examined urine samples from over 4,000 women who were being treated for urinary tract infections between 1992 and 1996 and found that […]
The New York Times has reported that the Nuremberg Files Web site gained a new online home this Saturday. The site’s new host was not named, but is based in the United States. Several national and international sites also include Nuremberg materials through the use of links or “mirroring.” A federal jury ruled early this […]
A Kansas City, Mo. Planned Parenthood clinic was the latest target in a recent wave of anthrax threats. More than a dozen abortion clinics and women’s health centers have received letters claiming to contain the deadly bacterium anthrax since last Thursday. Although initial tests indicate that the threats were hoaxes, conclusive tests have yet to […]
Cervical cancer is the second most common form of cancer found in women worldwide, and is the most common cancer among women in Africa, Asia and South America. Five new clinical studies all suggest that a new treatment regimen combining both chemotherapy and radiation therapy may markedly improve survival rates from this deadly disease. Officials […]
The Denver-based non-profit organization Asian Pacific American Women’s Leadership Institute (APAWLI) will host a leadership summit this Saturday, May 8 in Houston, Texas. Phoebe Eng, author of Warrior Lessons, will deliver the keynote speech for the summit, which is designed to improve Asian Pacific American women’s confidence and leadership skills. Also planned are self-discovery and […]
Last week, an unknown assailant or assailants sent letters claiming to contain the deadly bacterium anthrax to abortion clinics and women’s health centers across the nation. A postal inspector reported that at least 14 letters were postmarked in Lexington, Kentucky. Like similar threats sent to clinics last October, initial test indicate that this recent round […]
Many prominent anti-Taliban Afghan nationals who fled their homes to live in Pakistan have been harassed, threatened, beaten, and even murdered. Murder victims include the wife and children of political activist Abdul Haq and the brother-in-law of Afghanistan’s last communist president, Najibullah, who himself was hanged by the Taliban’s army. Also murdered were the wife […]
The Supreme Court refused, without comment, to hear a challenge to a Virginia state law that requires minors to notify their parents at least 24 hours before obtaining an abortion. Opponents of the law had charged that the law violates a young women’s constitution right to an abortion and attempted to block the law from […]
Smith College officials announced Saturday that the women’s college will begin offering a major program in computer, electrical and environmental engineering. Engineering remains an extremely male-dominated field, with women comprising only 10% of all professional engineers and about 17% of engineering college students. “Clearly, it’s a matter of national import that our country not only […]
A study published in the Journal of Obstetric, Gynecologic and Neonatal Nursing contends that women who engage in vigorous exercise after childbirth find it easier to shed excess pounds, stave off depression, and maintain healthy, active social lives. Lead study author and professor of nursing Carolyn Sampselle of the University of Michigan hopes that her […]
At least four abortion clinics received suspicious letters yesterday, several of which claimed to contain the potentially deadly bacterium anthrax. The FBI is analyzing the contents of letters. The sender or senders of the letters targeted the cities of Washington, DC; Manchester, NH; Milwaukee, WI; Cincinnati, OH; Burlington, VT; and Rapid City, SD. Several of […]
A French court has sentenced Hawa Greou of Malia, Africa to eight years for mutilating the genitals of about 50 girls. The case constituted the first trial to be prompted by a victim’s complaint as well as France’s largest ever genital mutilation case since so-called “female circumcision” was outlawed in 1984. Twenty-six parents of the […]
The Children’s Theatre of North Carolina’s Charlotte and Charlotte-Mecklenburg schools have forbidden a public performance of a prize-winning play because it contained lesbian characters that were deemed “inappropriate” for middle and high-school audiences. Samantha Gellar’s “Life Versus the Paperback Romance,” was one of five plays chosen as winners of the Charlotte Young Playwrights Festival. The […]
Researchers are hopeful that doctors will soon be able to diagnose STD infections in teenage girls with a simple urine test, avoiding the immediate need for more complication pelvic exams. Lead study author Dr. Mary-Ann Shafer of the University of California – San Francisco noted, “We know from earlier research that as many as one-third […]
Psychologist Richard Sloan and colleagues at Columbia-Presbyterian Medical Center suggest that much of the research claiming proof of “faith-healings” is flimsy and unfounded. Study authors expressed concern that such research might encourage patients to attribute illnesses to a lack of faith and ignore potential medical treatment. Published in the Lancet medical journal, Sloan argues that, […]
San Francisco’s public school administrators were forced to end their racial desegregation practices within the school district after the parents of Chinese-American students sued the district, charging that the desegregation policies blocked their children from enrollment in the city’s top schools. Under the desegregation policies, the number of children representing a single ethnic or racial […]
Louisiana’s five abortion clinics and other abortion providers filed a federal lawsuit against Gov. Mike Foster and other Louisiana state health officials, charging that an executive order allowing inspections of abortion clinics without warrant or consent is a thinly-veiled attempt to close clinics and violates a women’s constitutional right to abortion. The order also applies […]
New York lawyer Joann Trezza recently filed suit against her employer, The Hartford Inc. insurance agency, charging that her superiors repeatedly passed her over for promotions because she is married and has children. Trezza charges that those promotions consistently were granted to either single women or men with kids, and that her supervisors claimed that […]
