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Wage Gap, Poverty, Bias Harm Women’s Health

By Melinda Voss ● Health & Science ● December 4, 2000

The community where a woman lives affects virtually all aspects of her health and well-being. A national “Report Card” analyzed state efforts in economic security, education, discrimination, gun control and the environment. Last in a series.

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Women Find Tobacco Addiction Intense

By Por Alison Bowen ● Health & Science ● December 4, 2000

One doctor who smokes and treats heroin and cocaine users says the addictions are very similar. Experts say that to quit, women need to use every strategy available, ranging from support groups to nicotine replacement drugs. Second of two articles.

Seeing Through Smoke Screen: Women at Higher Risk

By Por Alison Bowen ● Health & Science ● November 27, 2000

Women have come a long way as far as the intensity of tobacco advertising targeted at them, especially teen-agers. Now, lung cancer kills more women than breast, uterine and ovarian cancer combined. First of a two part-series.

Facts That Women and Girls Should Know About Smoking

By Por Alison Bowen ● Health & Science ● November 27, 2000

Most Catholic HMOs Deny Vital Women’s Services

By Cynthia L. Cooper ● Health & Science ● October 30, 2000

The mixture of Catholic theology and health care organizations results in a non-treatment plan for many women, especially the currently poor. California, however, has passed groundbreaking disclosure laws that open the issue up for public scrutiny.

Scholars Contrast Childhood’s Rhetoric, Reality

By Barbara Raab ● Employment ● October 26, 2000

They claim treatment of kids is hypocritical. We say all kids need care, protection and education, but kids who commit crimes are prosecuted as adults, and kids who become parents are said to be responsible for most of the nation’s social problems.

Women Are Moving Boundaries of Science

By Chris Lombardi ● Health & Science ● October 23, 2000

Women researchers say current science attracts and rewards those who value distance and autonomy, virtues often thought of as male. But women and insist their scientific work be relevant, and, like Nobel prize-winners, prefer teamwork.

Women’s Services Cut as Catholic Hospitals Expand

By Cynthia L. Cooper ● Health & Science ● October 23, 2000

Rapid expansion and mergers of Catholic hospitals with public and other non-profit institutions has resulted in a health care system in which religious dictates often overrule women’s reproductive health care needs and choices.

States Lag in Helping Women Stay Healthy

By Melinda Voss ● Health & Science ● October 10, 2000

States are failing to ensure women receive routine tests that will save their lives and reduce illness and are also failing to provide the basic nutrition information and physical education required to maintain health.

Poor Access to Abortion Endangers Women’s Health

By Melinda Voss ● Health & Science ● September 18, 2000

States can improve women’s health by ensuring access to abortion services, but most states, and the nation as a whole, have failed to do so, according to a comprehensive state-by-state study. It grades 48 states “F.”