“Updating the Women’s Health Coverage Act” refers to the proposed Advancing Women’s Health Coverage Act (AWHCA), a bipartisan bill introduced in late 2025 to modernize the original1998 Women’s Health and Cancer Rights Act (WHCRA). It would expand coverage for breast …

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In his late seventies, Justin Hayward (of Moody Blues fame), sings and plays guitar with a wonderful quartet. A beautiful rendition of a classic. He still sings and plays like an angel. A true testament of his talent. But wait, …

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Empathy is important to healthy relationships. It’s our brain’s way of putting ourselves into someone else’s shoes. To step aside from our own feelings for a moment and realize what the other person might be going through. It’s an unselfish emotion that makes us better people, better friends…

I hurried to the window in my west-facing living room. There it was in all its glory — a gorgeous December sunset, made even more spectacular with the infusion of snow and ice. Oh gawd, where’s my camera? As any photographer knows, light can change from minute to minute. From second to second. You have to grab the moment when given the chance. Hurry, time is of the essence…

Scientists estimate that around 117 billion humans have ever lived on Earth since the dawn of Homo sapiens, approximately 192,000 years ago. Of course, this dramatic increase in the world’s population is a relatively new phenomenon. For many thousands of years, there were fewer people roaming the Earth than would live in a mid-sized city of today…