A young black woman, the mother of five and wife of a tobacco farmer visited Johns Hopkins Hospital complaining of vaginal bleeding. It was 1951, and when a tumor was found and a biopsy taken she had no way of knowing that history would be changed forever.
The...
In November 2020, the World Health Organization (WHO) brought about the first-ever global commitment to eliminate a cancer: cervical cancer. You can read the full details in this article.
The thought that we can be free of cervical cancer in the foreseeable future is astounding. This gives me pause...
“Nursing is an art: and if it is to be made an art, it requires an exclusive devotion as hard a preparation as any painter's or sculptor's work; for what is the having to do with dead canvas or dead marble, compared with having to do with the living body, the temple of God's spirit? It is one of the...
We have a huge opportunity!
Through conversations, we can transform the possibilities for the last chapters of our lives...
Not just our own, but for our loved ones, whether they are living in the next city or – as is often the case for expat women – across an ocean!
One hundred years have seemed to go by since I wrote this article in September 2019. COVID-19 has completely changed the world, how we live, and how we go about our business.
This article highlights the work of the Friendship Bench in Zimbabwe and the positive effect grassroots mental health endeavors...
World Teachers’ Day was launched by UNESCO on October 5, 1994 to commemorate the anniversary of the signing of the 1966 ILO/UNESCO Recommendation Concerning the Status of Teachers. World Teachers’ Day 2020 is being observed with the theme “Teachers: Leadership in Crisis, Reimagining the Future.” World Teachers’ Day is celebrated with enthusiasm around the globe, with...