The long wait for Progress Women and Economic and Social Equality

Century Foundation Senior Fellow Beverly Goldberg analyzes the substantial gap in wages between men and women, and then measures that gap in the context of women’s educational achievements and the continuing discrimination against women in the workplace, with attention to the impact of the issues of health and child care. pdf

Diabetes Today

http://www.diabetes.org/indiabetestoday.jsp?WTLPromo=HOME_diabetestoday&vms=272875162012

My husband was diagnosed in the early winter as prediabetic from our family physican. Since my husbands family has a history of diabetes and heart disease, there was concern. The doctor put my husband on a lowfat low cholestorl diet. And he had to start measuring his blood glucose levels. We also had to change out eating habits. Pizza out, fried food out, smaller portions in. My husband did exceptionally well. When he went back to the doctor in June, his levels were great, he had lost 25 pounds and had energy again. The doctor asked him what motivated him. He replied that his watched his Dad give himself insulin injections when he was young and has watched his sister give herself injections now, and he didn’t want to have to do that. I’m very proud of him. He now walks our two dogs twice a day.

First Ever County Level Report on Stroke Hospitalizations

First Ever County Level Report on Stroke Hospitalizations
Provided by teh Center for Disease Control and Prevention

The highest rate of stroke hospitalizations among Medicare beneficiaries exists among African-Americans and in counties located primarily in the southeastern states, according to a new report released by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) in collaboration with the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS).

The report, “Atlas of Stroke Hospitalizations Among Medicare Beneficiaries,” also reveals that a significant number of Medicare beneficiaries live in counties that have no access to care or inadequate choices for emergency health care when they suffer a stroke.