Cassandra West

The American Bar Association's Commission on Women is pitching in to help breast cancer patients. "Lawyers are uniquely positioned to help patients caught in the benefits bureaucracy," said Bobbi Liebenberg,...

As the former heads of Edward Hospital's prenatal education program, registered nurses Terry Parker and Jean Nass nurtured expectant mothers until delivery. Once the babies arrived, however, these supportive relationships...

NAME: Judy Gold BACKGROUND: It's nearing the end of the workweek, late Friday afternoon, yet Gold is eager to sit down to talk about two of her passions: women's issues...

NAME: Margaret Harris BACKGROUND: In her "spa for the spirit" five stories above East Oak Street, Harris floats through the minimally appointed space in an unhurried and almost divinely inspired...

She had been an English teacher, but, with time on her hands when she lived in England during the late 1970s, Nancy Barocci began to visit Italy frequently. She became...

Are you yearning for a time when life was simple, dependable, and things didn't change at the speed of sound? Open the oak and stained-glass doors to Merz Apothecary and...

Just when you thought you would never find a card to cheer up your girlfriend who's having trouble with her in-laws, the one just dumped by her boyfriend or another...

Psychotherapist Paula Kasper Brown knows firsthand the pain in the aftermath of an extramarital affair. "It's devastating," says Brown, who finally divorced after trying for several years to cope with...

Join us this week as WomanNews begins to explore the wired world. A monthlong series of articles, interspersed with our regular features, will look at how women are anticipating and...

The Field Museum of Natural History this weekend will host the Ibeji International Women's Festival, a mother/daughter overnight event examining the cultural richness of women's lives. Beginning at 9 a.m....