Northwestern’s Institute for Women’s Health Research is celebrating National Women’s Health Week with our Stand Up For Women’s Health Event tomorrow evening, May 12, at 6 PM. You can get more information here, but we are looking forward to a great night of comedy with one of Chicago’s finest comediennes, Patti Vasquez.
National Women’s Health Week is a weeklong health observance coordinated by the US Department of Health and Human Services Office of Women’s Health. From their website: “National Women’s Health Week empowers women to make their health a top priority. With the theme “Its Your Time,” the nationwide initiative encourages women to take simple steps for a longer, healthier, and happier life.”
May 31st is World No Tobacco Day—an annual awareness day sponsored by the World Health Organization (WHO) since 1987 to draw worldwide attention to the tobacco epidemic and the preventable death and disease it causes. The theme for this year’s World No Tobacco Day is “gender and tobacco, with an emphasis on marketing to women.” Tobacco use is the leading cause of preventable death worldwide and is estimated to kill more than 5 million people each year.
cancer, but they are worried about getting wrinkled and being unattractive,” said June Robinson, a professor of dermatology at Northwestern University and senior author of a May 17 paper in Archives of Dermatology. “The fear of looking horrible trumped everything else,” said Robinson.
You may have seen the cover article on our Spring Newsletter titled “Spotlight on Obesity: Is it just your weight?” This article focuses not only on the epidemic of obesity in the U.S. but also on the serious health conditions that may result from obesity. Although obesity is on the rise, however, eating disorders such as anorexia and bulimia still continue to be a problem, especially in women. According to the National Alliance for the Mentally Ill (2003) 90 percent of individuals with eating disorders are women between the ages of 12 and 25. Eating disorders are closely correlated with depression, substance abuse, and anxiety disorders, so it is important to diagnose and treat early.
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