Issues

"The VA recently reported that within 10 years, women are expected to become 10 percent of the VA’s patient population. Women are seeking VA health care at a faster rate than their male counterparts. Women who are seen at the VA today are also younger and of child-bearing age. These statistics beg the question: Is the VA ready?" more »

"If you receive information on your breast cancer risk and share it with others, you might also be sharing information about your daughter’s risk for breast cancer — even though she never consented to have that information shared." more »

Times of London Online - A diminutive 64-year-old grandmother who refuses to be bound by the rigid constraints imposed on women in Iran proved more than a match for the President of the Islamic Republic ... http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/worl… more »

Changing Lives Through Literature, an alternative sentencing program: "One study indicated that only 19 percent of CLTL 'graduates' re-offended while a comparison group of offenders had a 45 percent recidivism rate" more »