Women Still Want Annual Mammograms
By: Robert Preidt, HealthDay Reporter Most American women would prefer to get a mammogram to screen for breast cancer every year rather than every two years, a new study finds. Currently, the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force recommends that women at average risk for breast cancer be screened every two years, beginning at age 50. The recommendation is based in part on potential harms associated with screening mammography. Those include diagnosis and treatment of noninvasive and invasive breast cancers that would not have posed a threat to a woman’s health, as well as unneeded biopsies and the anxiety caused by false-positive results. However, other experts believe that the benefits of early breast cancer detection far outweigh the potential harms. To get women’s views, the researchers surveyed 731 women, 59 years old on average, who had screening and diagnostic mammograms done at Einstein Medical Center in Philadelphia between December 2016…
Africa: Senegal Leading the Fight to End FGM in Africa
By Patrick Egwu When a cluster of villages in Senegal publicly announced their decision to end the practice of female genital mutilation (FGM)…
Japan, China Dominate List of World’s Top Restaurants
By: Fiachra GIBBONS Japan and China have more of the world’s best restaurants than anywhere else, according to the La Liste ranking, which…
5 Startup Tips for Entrepreneurial Success Every Woman Should Know
By: Mamudu Hamzat Gideon Entrepreneurship has gathered more converts in the past few years than any other time in human history. And recent research…
Dr. Bronte Adams: A Role Model for the Girl Child
Bronte Adams, Director, and founder of Dandolo Partners is a Rhodes Scholar, former McKinsey & Co consultant, senior government executive, and board director. Respected…
Zhang Xin: Blazing Trails in Real Estate Development
People often say that life never gives us what we want so we have to take out what we want from what life offers…
7 Things to Look Out For Before Choosing a Business Partner
As a business owner, you may be doing very well at managing the business in its early stage but as the business grows, you…
Pushpa Basnet: A Diamond in Nepal
By Miracle Nwankwo Two years ago Nepal was consumed by a disastrous earthquake that claimed the lives of nearly 9,000 people and injured nearly…
Pakistani Women Take Center Stage at 2017 N-Peace Awards
Pakistan’s Farhat Asif has won the N-peace Award 2017 in the “Campaigning for Action” category for “her efforts to implement the Women, Peace and…
EU Pushes for 40% Quota for Women on Company Boards
The European commission is pushing for a quota for women on company boards to address the slow progress to gender equality in the senior…
South Korea to Step up Efforts to Boost Number of Women in Top Public Posts
South Korea is set to unveil new measures aimed at increasing the number of women in high-ranking public sector posts, as part of efforts…
Nigeria: Alakija to Host 200 Women to Unprecedented Flourish Africa Conference
Flourish Africa, a self-help and women empowerment platform founded by Mrs. Folorunso Alakija, Executive Vice Chair of Famfa Oil and designed to encourage women…
