Posts made in May, 2013

Right after director/ rapist Roman Polanski publicly blames the pill for masculinizing women, the guys at Fox News express related terror about the future of America. A new Pew study reveals that women are now breadwinners in 40% of households.

Albuquerque, NM.  May, 2013. Imagine being raped by your senior resident.  What would you do? Do you report it to your supervisors?  Go to the police?  Go to a rape crisis center?  Or would you try to carry on the next day because you are the...

Drs. Carol Berkowitz and Mallory D. Witt receive Dadone Award Carol Berkowitz, MD, and Mallory D. Witt, MD, lead researchers at the Los Angeles Biomedical Research Institute at Harbor-UCLA Medical Center (LA BioMed), received the Serge & Yvette...

CNN News Piece Does a Great Disservice To Women Physicians Exceptionalism is not as inspiring as it once was.  Talking about women who have scaled higher and a greater number of mountains than the usual woman physician does not help us face our own...

Dr. Laurie H. Glimcher, the Stephen and Suzanne Weiss Dean of Weill Cornell Medical College and provost for medical affairs of Cornell University, is the winner of a prestigious award from a group of female scientists from The Feinstein Institute...

WSJ 3.3.13 “Suicides Soar in Past Decade” More people are dying because they commit suicide than in motor vehicle accidents this year.  The number of suicides is rapidly approaching the number of deaths from breast cancer.  The trend...