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  • Komen's Reach

    By on February 14, 2012

    As the dust settles on the controversy over a decision by the nation's largest organization fighting breast cancer to withdraw grants from the nation's largest...

  • Bending with Benevolence

    By on October 6, 2011

    A novel approach to helping women deal with breast cancer is coming to the District this month – possibly in the form of the ''downward-facing...

  • Outspoken, Ep. 25: Lesbian Health & Favorite Stereotypes [video]

    By on March 9, 2011

    Outspoken, Ep. 25: Lesbian Health & Favorite Stereotypes This week, host Ebone Bell stops by the Mautner Project Gala on Saturday, March 5, to ask...

  • Anti-Tumor Team

    By on May 13, 2009

    Cancer, in a twisted sort of way, has the power to bring people together. It might be researchers working on the frontiers of the cancer...

  • Avon Calling

    By on February 27, 2008

    The Whitman-Walker Clinic announced Feb. 20 that the Avon Foundation Breast Care Fund has awarded a $40,000, one-year grant to the clinic's Lesbian Services Program....

  • Barriers to Health

    By on January 5, 2005

    Ironically, a few weeks after Melissa Etheridge's breast cancer diagnosis helped put ''a lesbian face'' on cancer, the same-sex marriage backlash as witnessed in the...

  • Body and Soul

    By on March 12, 2003

    Things would be much easier if that proverbial apple a day really did keep the doctor away. But getting and staying healthy is, of course,...