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Latina Cardiologist Responds to Call from Women in the Bronx

By Jan Paschal ● Health & Science ● March 4, 2016

As director of outreach cardiology at Montefiore Medical Center, Dr. Julie Ramos remembers where she came from. “My mom did not have a job other than as a cleaning lady,” says Ramos. And her mother's English was limited.

In NYC Hospital, Women of Color Are About to Start Talking About Heart Disease

By Jan Paschal ● Health & Science ● March 2, 2016

The support group starts on March 5 at Montefiore Medical Center in the Bronx and is part of an effort to improve coping, lifestyles and risk awareness. Meet the two Mayo Clinic-trained “heart sisters” who will lead the sessions.

This is a Love Story about Organ Donation

By Jan Paschal ● Health & Science ● February 12, 2016

And it's just in time for Valentine's Day. It connects a young man who died in a motorcycle crash and a middle-aged woman on the brink of death who became one of his five transplant recipients.

She Rocks the Runways for Plus-Size Fashion

By Jan Paschal ● Arts & Culture ● September 24, 2015

Hayley Hasselhoff, the Wilhelmina model, who wears a size 14, wants women to get the message: The best thing you can do for yourself is to love your body. On Sept. 26 she'll be back on the catwalk, in England's Curve Fashion Festival.

New York Fashion Week Breaks Down Beauty Barriers

By Jan Paschal ● Arts & Culture ● September 16, 2015

The models on this year's runways were not uniformly tall and thin. Many strutted their stuff as role models, as women with physical disabilities, plus-sized, ethnically diverse, transgender. “We're at a flash point with awareness,” said the owner of a model-casting company.

Fashion Pushes Women's Heart Risks into Limelight

By Jan Paschal & Por Alison Bowen ● Health & Science ● February 18, 2015

In the U. S., where heart disease is the No. 1 killer of women, celebrities strut a fashion runway to rouse sluggish public awareness. “The most amazing thing is that 80 percent to 90 percent of heart disease is preventable,” says Dr. Suzanne Steinbaum, a cardiologist.

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