HUNTINGTON, W.V. (WOMENSENEWS)-- Tabitha Waugh, a registered nurse in a West Virginia hospital, can't complain about the pay. But it's tough finding time with her kids and the work takes a toll, physically and mentally. "I just don't want to do direct patient care forever," she said.
HERNDON, Va., May 21 (UPI) -- June 14 presidential election in Iran may already have a foregone conclusion -- and it's likely an ill wind blowing form Tehran.
{WOMENSENEWS}-- Environmental factors are responsible for 23 percent of the overall global disease burden, according to World Health Organization research. Addressing such pollution could save the lives of 6 million women a year.
COLLEGE PARK, Md., May 20 (UPI) -- By President Obama's own actions, he is arrogantly ambitious but sadly incompetent. He has corrupted the foundations of our republic and for that he gets a failing grade.
LONDON, May 20 (UPI) -- Maligned and unpopular as Europe's bankers are these days, they have certainly been earning their money. Seldom have they had to operate in such a challenging environment.
NEW DELHI {WOMENSENEWS}-- With female sterilizations pushed as the primary mode of fertility control in Andhra Pradesh, post-operative complications have caused women to undergo needless hysterectomies and endure side effects they never expected.
COLLEGE PARK, Md., May 17 (UPI) -- On May 6, I wrote Europe was in danger of falling into a permanent recession -- a depression.
{WOMENSENEWS}-- When an elected district attorney in Ohio can't see that Ariel Castro's gender-based crimes are civil rights violations, it's hard to hope that our legal system will do much to prevent such horrifying crimes from continuing.
COLLEGE PARK, Md., May 16 (UPI) -- News the Internal Revenue Service targeted conservative groups for intense scrutiny is just one in a series of revelations pointing to a culture of expediency and intolerance in the Obama White House that corrupts this administration.
SOUTH AFRICA {WOMENSENEWS}-- The potential of a girl to change her community is great. But we can't expect a 10-year-old to change all the adults in her life simply because she has been given a few more opportunities. Given the limits she will often face, let's focus on boys and men, too.
WASHINGTON, May 15 (UPI) -- Lurking behind the good news from the Pakistan election is the threat of a geopolitical nightmare.
TAMPA, Fla., May 15 (UPI) -- Thousands of interested parties convened in Tampa, Fla., this week to collaborate and dialogue about how to best support elite U.S. military assets.
STEYNING, England, May 15 (UPI) -- With budget cuts looming, militaries across the globe need to look at how they deal with their most important asset: People.
{WOMENSENEWS}-- Contestants are called ambassadors and expected to understand the workings of the U.N. and have a good roster of civic involvements. The problem is, the U.N. wants nothing to do with it.
HERNDON, Va., May 14 (UPI) -- In the aftermath of the April 15 Boston Marathon bombing, efforts have been made to understand the Tsarnaev brothers' mindset and what motivated them to allegedly carry out a terrorist attack killing three and injuring more than 260 innocent civilians.