Article here. Excerpt:

'"[The] decision of no confidence on the PSA test by the U.S. government condemns tens of thousands of men to die this year and every year going forward if families are to believe the out-of-date evidence presented by the USPSTF," said Skip Lockwood, chief executive of ZERO, a group devoted to ending prostate cancer.

"A decision on how best to test and treat for prostate cancer must be made between a man and his doctor. This decision is coming from a panel that doesn't even include a urologist or medical oncologist."

Dr. Scott Eggener, an expert in prostate cancer from the University of Chicago, said the new recommendations, if adopted, would discourage men from getting prostate cancer screening.

Eggener said the move "is a classic example of 'throwing the baby out with the bath water.' A more sensible approach is to use all of our currently available tools to intelligently determine which patients are most likely to benefit from screening and treatment."'

From an Office on Womens Health mailing list email.

'Domestic Violence Regional Roundtable Event: Engaging Men and Boys in Preventing Violence

Date: October 26, 2011
Time: 9:30 to 11:30 a.m.

Location: Thomas P. O’Neill Federal Building, 10 Causeway Street, First Floor O’Neill Auditorium, Boston, MA 02222

Purpose: To engage members of the public; community and faith-based organizations; students; educators; domestic violence advocates; housing officials; homeless advocates; government leaders; and health care professionals on the topic of engaging men and boys in preventing violence. The event is open to everyone and free of charge.

Sponsored by

* U.S. Department of Education
* U.S. Department of Health and Human Services
* U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development

Agenda:

* 9 to 9:30 a.m.—Registration, networking
* 9:30 to 9:40 a.m.— Brief welcome from Federal agencies
* 9:40 to 9:50 a.m.—Massachusetts First Lady Diane Patrick (invited)
* 9:50 to 11:30 a.m.— Panel presentation with audience discussion; Q&A

Panelists:

Article here. Excerpt:

'(CNN) -- The U.S. Preventive Services Task Force, the group that told women in their 40s that they don't need mammograms, will soon recommend that men not get screened for prostate cancer, according to a source privy to the task force deliberations.

The task force is set to recommend a "D" rating for prostate specific antigen, or PSA, testing. Such a rating means "there is moderate or high certainty that the service has no net benefit or that the harms outweigh the benefits," according to the group's website. The task force is set to propose this recommendation Tuesday, and then allow for a comment period before issuing a final recommendation.

According to a draft copy of a report scheduled to be released Monday, a review of studies shows screening with the PSA blood test results in "small or no reduction" in prostate cancer deaths.'

Article here. Excerpt:

'For the first time in history, wrote author and former U.S. Secretary of Education William J. Bennett on CNN.com, women are better educated, more ambitious, and arguably more successful than men.

“Society has rightly celebrated the ascension of one sex,” he writes in Why Men Are In Trouble. “We said, ‘You go girl,’ and they went.”
...
A few weeks ago, I spoke at The University of Tennessee in Chattanooga, and I can confirm that many of the young women on campus are confused about men: their mixed signals, their lack of commitment to a relationship, the dearth of maturity and the inability to communicate. But if you asked the women what they wanted, they didn’t seem to quite know either.

Story here. Excerpt:

'NASHUA – A woman violated bail by contacting her alleged victim in a domestic assault case, police say.

Katrina Russell, 28, of 108½ Ash St., tried to induce the male victim not to cooperate in upcoming court proceedings against her, police said. Russell also allegedly threatened to harm the victim if he contacted police.

Russell was arrested Tuesday in Springfield, Vt., on a warrant from Nashua police. She was held at the Southern State Correctional Facility until police officers from Nashua traveled to Vermont to take her into custody, police said.'

Article here. Excerpt:

'Former Secretary of Education William Bennett has taken time out from his busy day to notice men, and he doesn’t like what he sees. Here’s his article (CNN, 10/4/11).

It’s not a good piece for a former Secretary of Education. That’s because it’s short on facts and logic, and does its best to contradict itself. In short, if Bennett had turned this in as a composition exercise in, say, 10th grade, I’d give him a D.

The only reason his grade isn’t lower is that he does get some facts right. He notices that men’s status in society has declined significantly since the 50s, 60s and 70s.

A Congressional Briefing on the Effects of Domestic Violence on Children has been scheduled for this coming Wednesday, Oct. 12 in Washington DC. The event is hosted by Makers of Memories and the National Coalition Against Domestic Violence (NCADV).

As you can see to the side, the image they chose to promote the briefing shows a man, presumably a father, yelling at a small girl who is cowering in the corner. And no surprise, the websites of Makers of Memories and the NCADV are brimming with gender-biased information.

SAVE supports evidence-based efforts to address young victims of family violence. These are the facts that need to be highlighted:

1. Women are at least as likely as men to engage in intimate partner violence. One national survey found mothers are twice as likely as fathers to engage in severe marital violence. [i]

The latest misandrist "man up" article on CNN, this time by William Bennett. Excerpt:

'(CNN) -- For the first time in history, women are better educated, more ambitious and arguably more successful than men.

Now, society has rightly celebrated the ascension of one sex. We said, "You go girl," and they went. We celebrate the ascension of women but what will we do about what appears to be the very real decline of the other sex?

The data does not bode well for men. In 1970, men earned 60% of all college degrees. In 1980, the figure fell to 50%, by 2006 it was 43%. Women now surpass men in college degrees by almost three to two. Women's earnings grew 44% in real dollars from 1970 to 2007, compared with 6% growth for men.
...

Story here. Excerpt:

'An Oklahoma nurse arrested on charges of having sex with a 13-year-old boy is back behind bars - for slipping him a love note wrapped in a burrito.

"Hey Babe, I love you forever," Amy Blose, 37, penned to the schoolchild before asking his 15-year-old female friend to deliver it, RadarOnline reported.

In April, Blose was charged with three counts of rape, three counts of forcible oral sodomy, one count of lewd or indecent acts to a child under 16 and one count of performing lewd acts in the presence of a child under 16.'

Article here. Excerpt:

'Relationships between women are often fraught with drama and pain, especially the ones between mothers and daughters. But no one's story is as awful as Mary Kathlyn Ogdoc's. The young mom lost her 2-year-old daughter last year after her own mother tossed her from a mall skywalk in Virginia.

Apparently, this grandmother had a reason for murdering her toddler granddaughter in such a cruel and horrific way. She hated her son-in-law who impregnated her daughter out of wedlock when she was 19. Oh and this: She felt the little girl came between her and her daughter.

I am going out on a limb to say what actually came between her and her daughter is the fact that she is a RAGING PSYCHO. It's unconscionable that she could even think that is a good "reason" to murder a child. And the worst part is her defense team is trying to prove she is insane.'

Press release here. Excerpt:

'WASHINGTON, Oct. 4, 2011 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Stop Abusive and Violent Environments (SAVE) is calling on President Obama to correct false information in the Domestic Violence Proclamation he issued Monday. At a time when victims are demanding accuracy and accountability, the declaration features misleading statements and inaccurate facts, according to SAVE.

The presidential proclamation, issued for Domestic Violence Awareness Month, makes the claim that "One in four women and one in 13 men will experience domestic violence in their lifetime." But multiple studies show that men and women abuse each other at similar rates.

The Center for Disease Control's Youth Risk Behavior Surveillance Survey reveals males are being victimized at a higher rate than females: 10 percent of teenage males versus 9 percent of teenage females report dating violence. In the American Journal of Public Health, a second CDC study of young adults revealed a dramatic gap for one-way violence: in 71 percent of cases, females were the aggressors.'

False allegations of abuse harm the innocent, rob true victims of needed services, and undermine the workings of justice. In May, SAVE conducted the first nationwide phone survey about this vexing problem, with 11% of respondents saying they had been falsely accused of domestic violence, child abuse or sexual assault.

To confirm the numbers, last month we repeated the survey, again calling over 10,000 persons on their landline phones. With both surveys combined; we can now report that about one in 10 persons have been falsely accused of abuse.

Other highlights from our surveys:

“Husband Poisoning By Wholesale,” “Women Formed Club To Kill Husbands,” “Exterminating Husbands,” “A New Business; Husband Poisoning On A Scale of a Commercial Enterprise,” “How Wives Gained Power by Mass-Murder of Husbands.” Such newspaper headlines as these popped up with alarming regularity in American newspapers from the 1880s to the end of the 1930s. With the exception for the story of the notorious “Arsenic Incorporated” case of 1939 in Philadelphia – with its gruesome 200-plus body count – all these sensational reports were of European husband-killing covens.

Apart from a few of the more than twenty cases now rediscovered and presented to the public in The Unknown History of Misandry, these crimes are completely lost to the official historical record (there is no taxpayer-funded army of university researchers working tirelessly to dig up the truth about misandry).

Article here. I wonder if these results will be as quickly accepted as circumcision studies done in Africa. Excerpt:

'Hormonal contraception may make it easier for HIV to spread between heterosexual sex partners, according to a new study conducted in Africa.

Women in the study who used hormonal contraception had double the risk of acquiring HIV or transmitting it to their male partners as those who did not use hormonal contraception.

While hormonal conception includes both oral contraception and injectable forms of birth control, the findings were most pronounced for women using injectables, like Depo-Provera, the study said.'

Article here. Excerpt:

'Perugia, Italy (CNN) -- In a ruling read to a tension-filled courtroom, an Italian jury on Monday cleared Amanda Knox of murder and other charges, nearly four years after she was arrested on suspicion of having killed her roommate in this picturesque Italian university town.

There was an audible gasp in the courtroom as the verdict was read, then an eruption of emotion, prompting the judge to call for silence. Knox herself was nearly hysterical, according to CNN's Matthew Chance, and had to be assisted out of the courtroom by two people.

The jury evidently believed Knox's impassioned final statement to the court, delivered in a voice trembling with emotion.

"I am not what they say I am -- perverse, violent. ... I haven't murdered. I haven't raped. I haven't stolen," Knox said in the most important speech of her life. Her co-defendant, Raffaele Sollecito, was also cleared of involvement in the 2007 death of Meredith Kercher, a British exchange student and Knox's roommate in Perugia.'