Angelina Jolie Reveals She Had a Double Mastectomy
Actress Angelina Jolie has added a new cause to her long list of humanitarian efforts, but the latest is her most personal one of all.
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Today in The New York Times there are two powerful stories featuring powerful women who've opened up about personal health issues that have been a part of their lives. They both reflect a changing of the times, in how we talk about disease, and in how we might more openly reach for help when needed, making the most informed choices we can for ourselves.
Actress Angelina Jolie has added a new cause to her long list of humanitarian efforts, but the latest is her most personal one of all.
A summary of the best reads found behind the paywall of The New York Times.
Iconic young adult novelist Judy Blume has been privately battling breast cancer, she wrote in her blog today.
Discovered: Exercise reduces breast cancer risk, two classes of wine a day keeps the doctor away, kids have worse allergies than previously thought and it just takes two degrees of warming for bit climate change.
Discovered: Breast cancer isn't just one type of cancer, a device that made a paralyzed monkey move, ecstasy isn't all that happy after all, and a reason to spoil kids with more toys.
Discovered: Sitting all day will kill you, should we be eating placenta?, a coral-reef herpes outbreak, and a resistant form of breast cancer.
Yesterday the news broke that the Susan G. Komen for the Cure Foundation had decided to pull its funding from Planned Parenthood, effectively ending Komen grants to Planned Parenthood for breast exams and mammograms, primary tools in detecting breast cancer early, and, in so doing, saving lives
The Susan G. Komen for the Cure Foundation decided to pull its funding from Planned Parenthood, citing a Congressional investigation into Planned Parenthood, and apparently catching supporters of both organizations off guard.
Boing Boing writer Xeni Jardin, whose live-tweeting of a routine mammogram ended tragically with a breast cancer diagnosis, has written a long and moving account of that doctor's visit.
An embarrassing breast cancer awareness meme proves the social network's relevance
Making the statement on her MSNBC show, she says she has "a terrific prognosis"
On Paul Ryan for president, the G-8's fudged numbers, and the benefits of circumcision
On oysters at Passover, Ayn Rand in the theaters, and moving beyond 'I <3 Boobies'
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