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The following summarizes selected women"s health-related blog entries. ~ "Report: Higher Rates of Unintended Pregnancy, Abortion Among Women of Color," Sharon Camp, RH Reality Check: A new report from the Kaiser Family Foundation on health disparities between white women and women of color "provides further stronger evidence debunking claims" from antiabortion-rights advocates who "have long argued that high abortion rates among minorities are the result of supposed aggressive marketing by abortion providers to minority communities," Camp, president and CEO of the Guttmacher Institute, writes. In addition to identifying disparities in conditions like heart disease and cancer, the report documents "widespread disparities in access to health insurance and health screenings" and explores growing evidence of the association between social factors and health behaviors, access and outcomes, according to Camp. She continues that research from Guttmacher has consistently demonstrated that "rates among racial and ethnic minorities -- especially blacks and Hispanics -- are directly linked to their higher rates of unintended pregnancy, which in turn reflect pervasive health disparities more generally." Camp writes that the "fundamental question policymakers should be asking is not why women of color have high abortion rates, but rather what can be done to help them have fewer unintended pregnancies and achieve better health outcomes more generally," such as improved access to affordable contraception. Women"s dissatisfaction with health care providers, quality of service and the contraceptive methods themselves also are factors in contraceptive use, as are "[u]nstable life situations," which can make consistent use a low priority for some women, according to Camp. She writes, "By continuing to label abortion providers as "racists" and refusing to support expanded access to contraceptive services, antiabortion-rights activists are by no means part of the solution -- to high rates of unintended pregnancy and abortion among racial and ethnic minorities or to persistent and tragic disparities in health care generally" (Camp, RH Reality Check, 6/15).~ "What"s Next for Women"s Legal Rights in the Supreme Court?" Amy Matsui, Womenstake: Matsui, senior counsel for the National Women"s Law Center, examines several women"s rights issues "that we see peeking around the corner" of the next Supreme Court session. Matsui writes that "increasingly draconian abortion restrictions have begun to work their way through state legislatures." These restrictions include giving personhood rights to fetuses, mandates on the information women are given prior to abortion procedures and "outright abortion bans," she writes. Challenges to laws that expand protections for providers who deny health care services also "are likely to come before the courts," Matsui writes. Challenges to health care reform proposals also are likely, "specifically, the interaction of the federal statute that governs employee health care and pension plans ... and any new requirements for employers to provide health care coverage," according to Matsui. The Supreme Court has "obviously considered the underlying legal doctrines in these cases (the constitutional right to privacy, federal anti-discrimination statutes, Equal Protection guarantees and federal benefits statutes) in the past; some might say that there is a clear roadmap of where the Court should go in some of these cases," Matsui writes, concluding, "But when every vote counts on the Supreme Court, women should be watching what cases come next" (Matsui, Womenstake, 6/12).~ "Antiabortion Groups" Case Against Sotomayor," Dan Gilgoff, U.S. News & World Report"s "God and Country": "With no clear evidence for a pro-abortion-rights position in her judicial decisions, antiabortion groups" case against Supreme Court nominee Sonia Sotomayor can be summed up in eight words: the Puerto Rican Legal Defense and Education Fund," Gilgoff writes. From 1980 to 1992, Sotomayor sat on the l
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AARP Thanks Vice President Biden, Administration, For Working To Improve Health Care For Older Americans
This afternoon, AARP CEO A. Barry Rand delivered the following remarks at the White House Middle Class Task Force Town Hall in Alexandria, Va., during a discussion with Vice President Biden, Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius, and White House Office of Health Reform Director Nancy-Ann DeParle, on how health care reform will lower costs, cut waste, and improve quality for seniors from across the country.
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Hebrew U. To Launch Biggest Center In Israel For Brain Research

Israel"s largest institute for brain research will be launched this week at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. The new $130 million Edmond and Lily Safra Center for Brain Sciences (or ELSC), will be announced in the presence of Mrs. Lily Safra. The Edmond J. Safra Philanthropic Foundation has made a lead donation of $50 million to the project, and the Hebrew University is seeking additional funding from its friends in Israel and around the world. The decision to invest in a center for brain sciences is based on the findings of an international monitoring committee, whose members include two Nobel laureates, Prof. Bert Sakmann and Prof. Richard Axel. The committee determined that the level of research in the field of brain sciences at the Hebrew University is among the highest in the world and that a newly equipped center will enable the university to be ranked among the top five in the world in this field. President of the Hebrew University Prof. Menachem Magidor said, "Thanks to the leadership of the Edmond J. Safra Philanthropic Foundation, the university will be able to help solve one of the key scientific questions of the 21st century -- how the human brain works -- by discovering new medical approaches for treating neurological disorders and applying new technologies that imitate the activity of the human brain." According to the acting director of the ELSC, Prof. Eilon Vaadia, "With an increasing aging population and a rise in the prevalence of neurological disorders in old age, brain research should be a key issue in modern society. In another 15 years or so, we as a society won"t have the financial capacity to support all the health problems for the growing ageing population, and so we must quickly find solutions." Mrs. Lily Safra, president of the Edmond J. Safra Foundation, said, "Understanding the brain is the premier challenge of our time, and I am confident that the Hebrew University"s investigators and students will make a profound impact. My husband Edmond would have been so proud that his name is linked to an initiative that brings new hope to families around the world suffering from Parkinson"s, Alzheimer"s and other devastating brain diseases." The Edmond and Lily Safra Center will pursue five different inter-cooperative fields of brain research. The first will focus on genes, molecules and nerve cells in the brain; the second will focus on research of structure and function of local neuronal circuits; the third will focus on research of electrical activity and the communication between brain areas, with the aim of understanding how senses, movement and thoughts are created; the fourth will research cognitive processes and will focus mainly on aspects of human brain function; while the fifth will focus on theoretical fields, computational aspects and building models of the nervous system, proposing new experiments and predicting their results. The ELSC will recruit an additional 15 members of staff to undertake the research. To mark the launch of the Edmond and Lily Safra Center, a series of events involving leading researchers from the Hebrew University and overseas will be held as part of the 72nd meeting of the Hebrew University"s Board of Governors: * Symposium on June 8, "From brain research to brain repair," will address advances in basic research in neuroscience and their consequences for treatment of neurodegenerative diseases. Lectures include "Genetics and neuroscience of autism;" "Deep brain stimulations for Parkinson"s disease;" ""Prospects and challenges of stem cell research;" and "Advances in treatment of Alzheimer"s disease." Speakers include Nobel laureate Prof. Bert Sakmann, Prof. Menachem Magidor, Prof. Gerald Fishbach, Prof. Nissim Benvenisty, Prof. Eilon Vaadia, Prof. Marta Weinstock-Rosin and Prof. Hagai Bergmann. * Roundtable discussion on June 9, "Brain, Art and Creativity," will bring together artists and scientists to discuss the process of creativity and the potential for bridging the divide between art and science. Speakers include Prof. Idan Segev, artist Michal Rovner and Prof. Hanoch Gutfreund. * Roundtable discussion on June 10, "Neuroscience and Society,"| will highlight the far-reaching ethical, philosophical and psychological consequences of brain research. Speakers include Prof. Haim Sompolinsky, Prof. Hermona Soreq, Dr. Amir Amedi and Prof. Naftaly Tishby. Jerry Barach The Hebrew University of Jerusalem


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