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ItaliaWhat's Up, Docs? -- Barbra Streisand Places a Special Call to The Doctors to Discuss Heart Health for Women, November 16
NOVEMBER 10, 2009, 5:02 pm
On Monday, November 16, Barbra Streisand calls The Doctors to discuss her passionate crusade to support heart health awareness for women, a cause which led her to create and endow the Barbra Streisand Women’s Cardio Vascular Research and Education Program at Cedars Sinai Medical Center.
Barbra tells The Doctors, “I’ve always been an advocate of equal rights for women, so why should women’s health research be done on men? Physiologically, we’re different. I made a movie about it called ‘Yentl.’ It’s just silly. I was shocked when I heard that medical research for women was being done on men. How do you treat a woman for such a life threatening ailment based on treatments, diagnostics and technology based on men?”
Heart Disease runs in Barbra’s family: “My family on my mother’s side all seems to have had heart disease.”
Appearing on the panel alongside The Doctors, during the conversation, is Dr. C. Noel Bairey Merz, the Director of Women’s Health at Cedars Sinai, who reiterated “Heart Disease is the number one women’s health care threat.”
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Re: What's Up, Docs? -- Barbra Streisand Places a Special Call to The Doctors to Discuss Heart Health for Women, November 16
Ooh my God! Is it true that she has a heart disease? I had read this at some twitter, as a matter of fact, I had seen there the high rate of car accidents. Large car shows are where manufacturers go to show off their upcoming models, and also concept cars to stoke buzz – and one of the biggest buzzes right now is over the Honda Skydeck concept. The Honda Skydeck concept car was recently unveiled at the Tokyo Motor Show, and the thing is spectacular. It's a hybrid, and a minivan, and the front doors are scissor doors, similar to the ones on Lamborghinis. The rear doors slide open, and of course there's the hatch back door common to minivans. It isn't close to being production ready, so please don't take the Honda Skydeck concept as a cue to get car loans ready.
Re: What's Up, Docs? -- Barbra Streisand Places a Special Call to The Doctors to Discuss Heart Health for Women, November 16
Oh thank you so very much! I couldn't agree with you more! In fact, in my psychology courses I use this example for why it is important to know the subjects of the study & not assume. Women's heart attack symptoms are not the same. Then there is also culture and age etc to consider! Makes you wonder about the intelligence of the men who ran their studies and assumed it was the same for women. They complain they do not understand us & then when it comes to research we must be the same? UGH! And they wonder about us? Sigh...oh I love men but sometimes...and they say the same about us, but on important issue like this they better get their act together! It is almost 2010! I had one past student even email me her prof discussed how it is all great & fine to now rerun studies say on Love including women and other cultures but if you still use the definition of Love that men created in the past are we really changing anything? Women may define Love differently in the first place. AWESOME! We need to inspire the young women of today to become passionate about research with a new view rather than just continue with the old male view of the past. BRAVO for helping in one area of research!