Keeping the Women we Love Healthy

Scholarships focused on ensuring women's health in current medical research Calcium imbalance and its effect on arrhythmia, papillary thyroid cancer and HPV awareness in the military among the fields of study Over half a million dollars awarded to 194 students to promote women's health through education.   Dr. Doris Howell with Scholars (Left to right) Angela Zuo, Jennifer Beuchel and Stephanie Myers San Diego, CA. - August 2014. The Doris A. Howell Foundation presented its fall 2014 scholarship awards. Candidates from UCSD and USD  Hahn School of Nursing  will be researching new fields of study as well as new means to create awareness on women's health.   A strict protocol is followed in the choice of the students, including review of the students' scholarship applications, and quality of supervision during their research work. This supervision has become known as the "Mentor Program." It is the lifeline to the program's su...

Image by Jim Bathie J ust last month the Howell Foundation hosted an expert that gave us an overview of the benefits of managing pain through nutrition.    Advocacy for nutrition and women’s health has resulted in many coincidences between the Anti-inflammatory diet and the Mediterranean diet, anywhere from the health values of the ingredients we use and the way the food is prepared to the meaning of going back to basics in choosing the best foods for our health.     To celebrate health through nutrition, this recipe from Health Magazine looks like the perfect way to start the month of May:  Mediterranean Seafood Grill with Skordalia.   If you are under strict dietary supervision  please talk to  your  physician or nutritionist before preparing any food.  Ingredients:  1 pound   russet or Yukon gold potatoes 8  garlic cloves, peeled 1  slice sourdough bread, crust removed 1/4 cup   plain Gr...

Image courtesy of Tanatat / FreeDigitalPhotos.net Has anyone suddenly asked you the definition of happiness? A state of just being? Being content? Having a feeling of joy? Feeling satisfied? Being at peace? Avoiding stress? Is happiness in women different than happiness in men?  What I do know is this: If you are unhappy, the people around you will be unhappy.  If you are unhappy, you won’t be aware of your surrounding and your own present moment, acknowledging and accepting your own feelings and thoughts, which in turn leads to a non-ending, thought-driven train of negativity  If you are unhappy, the “Just do it” just “doesn’t make sense”  And probably the most obvious. If you are stressed, you will most certainly be unhappy.  In other words, and perhaps in a western-eastern, ying -yang context Happiness IS the new Healthy. Even though the being-happy-to-be-healthy approach might sound a bit cliché, diagnosing and treating illness is ju...

Thoughts by Carole L. Banka, Ph.D. Just in time for Valentine’s Day when most are focused on heart-shaped boxes bearing candy, comes an intriguing report about “love” and the heart. In a study published last week in Psychological Science , researchers report that it is not the overall quality of a marriage that predicts heart disease, it is, instead, the perceived support each partner receives from the other in times of stress. Couples who had been married for an average of 36 years were assessed as to their perception of support from their partners and their degree of coronary artery calcification (CAC) a documented marker of heart disease.   In 30% of the couples, both partners reported ambivalent support;  that is, sometimes positive and sometimes negative.  Those “ambivalent” couples were found to have significantly greater CAC than the other 70% of couples.  When the data was normalized for other cardiovascular risk factors such as age, gende...

Pictured here 6 of the 12 Howell-CSUPERB scholars:  Posed:   Standing (left to right)  Matthew Siracusa, Matthew Dalphin, Sam Nguyen;  Front (left to right)  Lindsay Bradford, Nina Bubalo, Patricia Nguyen Congratulations to the 2014 Howell-CSUPERB Scholars!  CSUPERB recently presented the Howell - CSUPERB students that will be receiving scholarships to fund their undergraduate research in subjects related to women's health. CSUPERB reported that the CSU-Howell Foundation partnership resulted in the award of 12 scholarships from 7 different CSU universities, totaling $42,000. CSUPERB received 24 applications from students at 11 different CSU campuses.  A strict protocol is followed in the choice of the students, including review of the students' scholarship applications, and quality of supervision during their research work. This supervision has become known as the "Mentor Program." It is the lifeline to the program's success. Each student mus...

Welcome to the Howell Foundation!   And what a successful year 2013 has been.   The Foundation’s mission is simple:  Keeping the women we love healthy.  Through education, we strive to make women their own health advocates.  We believe that if women are healthy, their families will be healthy as well.  We follow are mission with five fundamental initiatives:  The award of scholarships focused on women's health-related research Educational Luncheon Seminars focused on informing the communities on the latest research in women's health  Intentional Happiness Evening Series with a holistic, research based approach to dealing with health issues that can affect our happiness, and therefore our health Partnering with academic and community-based organizations to support programs that improve quality of life in San Diego communities where health disparities are prevalent Extending the Foundation's mission locally and Nationally through it...

The Howell Foundation Board Members met this week to set their objectives for the 2014 fiscal year. Funding scholaships for undergraduate research in women’s health continues to be a priority as a means to ensure the Foundation’s mission to Keep the Woment we Love Healthy. For more information, visit  http://www.howellfoundation.org Meet our Board!                                                                   ### About the Doris A. Howell Foundation:  The Doris A. Howell Foundation for Women’s Health Research is committed to keeping the women we love healthy, advancing women’s health through research and educating women to be catalysts for improving family health in the community. The organization does so by funding scholarships to students researching issues affecting wo...