More Men With Breast Cancer Opting for Double Mastectomies


HT_brett_miller_hair_loss_jt_150902_4x3_992 (1)A pool manager at the time, Miller, now 29, worried how he would look, saying, “It would have made me feel awkward and not make me want to be around a pool anymore.”

He’d planned to postpone the second mastectomy for a month so he could recover from the first. But the day before his initial surgery in 2010, Miller’s physician told him that after consulting another doctor they would stick with a single mastectomy because he should not be treated exactly like female patients.

http://abcnews.go.com/Health/men-breast-cancer-opting-double-mastectomies/story?id=33486337

After 70 Years of Men, Some Say It Is ‘High Time’ a Woman Led the U.N.


NATIONS2-master180 Growing calls for a woman to lead the United Nations reflect not only an appeal for gender equity but also frustration with the opaque way in which world powers bargain over the appointment.

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/08/23/world/after-70-years-of-men-some-say-it-is-high-time-a-woman-led-the-un.html