Yan: Palm Oil and Women’s Health

Wudan Yan has a new entry in her series on palm oil. If you were reassured by Wudan’s article in Nature about mitigating the ecological impact of oil palms, you can start worrying again. Just read her piece for Stat about the health of women plantation workers....

Hendrickson: Lemonade Aid

There’s no wallowing, writes Janet Hendrickson, at the Lemonade breast cancer support group. In Group Health Research News, Janet reports that the women who attend the monthly Group Health meetings focus on practical education, personal empowerment and positive...

Tompa: 161,808 women and going strong

What changed our minds about hormones for menopause symptoms? Rachel Tompa explains in a feature for Quest, from the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, about the Women’s Health Initiative. Funded by the National Institutes of Health since 1993 this study saved...