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When Should Patients Decide for Themselves?

12/18/25 – THE PULSE, WHYY/NPR

As patients, we often wonder what our role should be when it comes to getting better. Should we research options, get second opinions, and ask lots of questions? Or should we sit back, and let the health care professionals take charge? When does it make sense to push, and when is it best to do less?
On this episode, we examine our role as patients, the choices we make, and charting our path toward better health. A reporter gets a wake-up call while looking into diabetes rates among Latinos in Ok...

Local Sustainable Farms Thrive in Pandemic

08/24/20- KPFK Public Radio, Los Angeles

Southern Californians are seeking safer alternatives to our industrial food system amidst reports of Covid-19 outbreaks at meat packing plants and images of unprotected farm workers toiling in the fields of factory farms.CSAs, Community Supported Agriculture farms give consumers an option that is free of the stress and safety concerns of supermarket shopping amid a pandemic. KPFK News Reporter Elizabeth Zwerling has the story.

Pandemic Exposes Digital Divide Among California School Children

07/31/20– KPFK Public Radio, Los Angeles

The digital divide in California became more apparent when the coronavirus pandemic forced six million school children online. Governor Gavin Newsom recently announced that most SoCal public schools must continue virtual teaching. Now a bill making its way through the state legislature could help bring high-speed internet to households most in need. KPFK News Reporter Elizabeth Zwerling has more on the proposal.

Lawmakers Consider Decriminalizing Prostitution

07/03/19– KPFK Public Radio, Los Angeles

The union that supports California sex workers is calling on the 2020 presidential candidates to support legalizing prostitution – in their actions as well as in their words.Although several candidates have called for decriminalization of sex work, exotic service providers say their work is still confined to the underground economy.KPFK News reporter Elizabeth Zwerling has more. (STORY BEGINS @ 3:40)

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Lawmakers Shift Campus Rape Conversation to High Schools

LOS ANGELES (WOMENSENEWS)–After she was raped by a classmate on an overnight field trip in 2012, Esther Warkov’s daughter was haunted by nightmares. She spent several months in residential treatment for trauma but never returned to her Seattle school, and eventually moved away from her home and family.

A strong science student and promising orchestral musician, "her whole life trajectory fell apart," said Warkov, founder of the education and advocacy website Stop Sexual Assault in Schools, whic
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'Sex Signals' Turns Campus Laughter on Rape Culture

LOS ANGELES (WOMENSENEWS)–For the first sketch of the hour-long program, the male actor, Chris Beier, asked the audience of roughly 250 University of Southern California students for a pickup line.

"Do you go to USC? Wanna see my Trojan?" shouted by one audience member got some laughs, but Beier went with the next suggestion.

"You look like my aunt," Beier said, adding, "that apparently turns me on" to open the improvised scene in Catharsis Productions‘ recent performance of "Sex Signals" for
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Robots Haunt the Fight for $15 Minimum Wage

LOS ANGELES (WOMENSENEWS)–If you forget your toothbrush or need a cold drink or a midnight snack while staying at the Holiday Inn Express, Crown Plaza or one of two Aloft hotels in California’s Silicon Valley, your room service may come via robot.

"People like getting a delivery from a robot," said Steve Cousins, CEO of Savioke, the 2-year-old company based in Santa Clara, Calif., that designs the waist-high attendants. "They don’t have to get dressed, or brush their teeth, or tip; just answer
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Ravages of Revenge Porn Spur Federal Crime Push

(WOMENSENEWS)– When her high school boyfriend contacted her in 2009, 19 years after they’d graduated and parted ways, Annmarie Chiarini said all of her old teenage feelings came rushing back.

"It was that high school fantasy," said Chiarini, 44, a community college English professor and single mother. "We rekindled the relationship."

They dated for about seven months, commuting between her home in Maryland and his in New Jersey, she said.

During that time, Chiarini had reluctantly acquiesced
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Bill Targets 'Weapons of Mass Perfection' Advertising

LOS ANGELES (WOMENSENEWS)– Four years ago Hollywood marketing exec Seth Matlins had a rude awakening that prompted him to scrutinize the industry to which he’d devoted most of his career.

“When my daughter was 4, I began to look at the world through the eyes of a girl, and I was horrified,” said the former executive for the Creative Artists Agency and Live Nation. “All I saw were the human-made obstacles to her happiness . . . so I left these fairly high-powered lucrative jobs. (Addressing) sex
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Calif. Campus Rape Bill Goes Beyond 'No Means No'

LOS ANGELES (WOMENSENEWS)– Like other campus sexual assault survivors, Sofie Karasek said her attack freshman year by a classmate at the University of California-Berkeley left her distraught at first, wondering whether she should “make a big deal of it,” then puzzled and angry at what she felt was her university’s inadequate response after she reported the incident.

A political economy major, president of Cal Berkeley Democrats and a self-described activist, Karasek turned her activism to her n
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All Aboard!

Bob Calkin, a charismatic yet mellow speaker, told the 25 entrepreneurs attending a recent daylong seminar in Burbank that their business action teams should include an accountant and a lawyer, as well as investors and a healthy membership base.

“You’re creating a nonprofit,” said the 50-year-old instructor and CEO of several nonprofit and for-profit businesses, his shoulder-length hair tucked neatly behind his ears.

“How do you earn money from a nonprofit? You pay yourself a salary.” Nonprofi
Pasadena Weekly •

Growing concerns

At a recent meeting of the Pasadena area campaign group for the “Right to Know: Label Genetically Engineered Foods” ballot measure, Pamm Larry talked about the measure’s opponents’ negative campaign.

The “No on Proposition 37” Web site pictures an old man looking puzzled while staring at items in a grocery aisle — items whose labels have the phrase “may be partially produced with genetic engineering” in addition to ingredients and nutrition information. The subtitle reads “Confusing, Misleading


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