Menopause is barreling down with a ferocity that is difficult to ignore. Like many women my age, I’ve had my share of health challenges and, until recently, blindly trusted the pharmaceutical industry to fix all that ailed me. Health by chemistry was a great thing; oral contraceptives, a fabulous invention, allergy meds – ditto, pain […]
Art and CancerWhen my daughter was a little girl, we used to create fairy tales together. I would draw them, and she would write them. As she grew up, she started to feel a lot of pelvic pain, which her doctors ultimately told her was from cancer. This is my story about how she battled […]
And we all have hormones. Those wonderfully mysterious chemicals circulating and cycling with the regularity and rapidity that makes one’s head spin, female hormones are at once the bane and the joy of man’s existence. Our hormones are what make us find you attractive, laugh at your jokes, date you, sleep with you and bear […]
It is difficult to read the stories of suffering expressed by the women featured in our blog and not become incensed. We can joke about women’s hormone health and deride the science to fringe status, but our failure to recognize, investigate and create options for women has serious consequences. In my mind, this is an […]
Over the weekend, as my colleagues and I were putting this issue together, we began talking about the hormone stories that were crossing our desks. More often than not, the women submitting these stories describe years of pain, suffering and uncertainty. In some cases, lab tests were done, in others they were not or not […]
As the economy and political situation continue to spiral with the frenetic, manic-depressive, mood swings of a toddler in the cereal aisle, the rest of us are left wondering what the…Don’t they get it? Don’t they see what we see? Maybe not. With $174,000-$223,000 annual salaries and guaranteed health insurance that includes private personal physicians […]
Starting a company is always difficult; starting one during the great recession is just mad. And then to launch the website and blog days following one of the largest stock market downturns in history…well that’s just damned unfortunate. Or is it? Maybe there is no better time to build something than when everything else is […]