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Women’s Health Today About Women, For Everyone Friday July 22, 2011 8am MST KUNM 89.9fm or www.kunm.org Listen to the promo here: wht-promo 7.22.11 How do sex and gender impact health? Does health policy adequately address systemic problems rooted in the relationships between patient, provider and insurer? Women’s Health Today looks at health from an interdisciplinary and woman-centered perspective, examining the many...

A must for anyone working in health! It’s short, watch it.

July 13, 2011|By Marissa Cevallos, HealthKey / For the Booster Shots blog Cancer kills more men than women — some forms more than others, finds a new study. In the new assessment of cancer data, men are more than twice as likely than women to die from lung, skin, kidney and liver cancers. Overall, not including sex-specific or breast cancers, men’s death rates are 1.9 times higher than women’s, according to the new...

While states consider cuts to Medicaid, a new report by the National Bureau of Economic Research shows poor people (many of whom are women) do better when they are insured.

The UN’s agency for gender equality and female empowerment has released a report on Progress of the World’s Women. Executive Summary Progress of the World’s Women –