Red Flags - Women

Who Is Everyone?

Fri, 21 Oct 2005 04:00:00 -0400

Everyone wants a cure. A television commercial uses this line, while promoting the sale of something pink during the current breast cancer awareness month sham.

Who does everyone include?

Are Women Getting The Short End Of The Stethoscope?

Sun, 27 Feb 2005 04:00:00 -0500

It sure looks that way when it comes to awareness of women’s heart attack risks, according to Dr. Nieca Goldberg. She ought to know, because she’s chief of women’s cardiac care at New York’s Lenox Hill Hospital.

Dr. Goldberg was commenting on a new study about women with heart disease and aspirin. The study, led by Dr. Jeffrey S. Berger, concluded that not enough female patients were taking the daily aspirin that could prevent another heart attack. (1)

Female Genital Mutilation

Thu, 05 Dec 2002 04:00:00 -0500

"I really didn’t think I was going to survive it. I remember thinking after they tied me down on my back flat and left me there completely hopeless in agony, Why? What have I done to deserve such a thing?"

-Waris Didie, UN special ambassador on female mutilation.

The screams are deadly. Four adult men hold down the child. One man holds down each limb. The procedure begins. The practice involves removing with a knife, shears, razor blade, or a piece of broken glass, the girl’s clitoris and sometimes her labia. Infibulation, the cutting away of all of a female’s genitalia and labial tissue can only be compared to male castration. The surgical instruments used are usually not sterilized. Elders, who are not medically trained, perform the surgery in unsanitary and primitive conditions No anaesthetic is used. There is nothing to dull the pain. The victim is in agony as this ritual cutting is in process.

Violence And Health

Thu, 28 Nov 2002 04:00:00 -0500

More Women Die From Violence In The World Today Than From Cancer, Malaria, Malnutrition And Other Diseases

More women die from violence in the world today than from cancer, malaria, malnutrition and other diseases. The ho-hum attitude often expressed about this trend is shocking and serves to remind us of how cruel humanity has become in its neglect of vital issues.

Hundreds or even thousands of newborn female babies are killed by their parents in India and China simply because they are girls.