Gina Kolata reports of the New York Times that"most women should start regular breast cancer screening at age 50, not 40, according to new guidelines released Monday by an influential group that provides guidance to doctors, insurance companies and policy makers."

Read NOW President Terry O'Neill opinion for the Washington Post on women and health care: "Women are providing more health-care services, unpaid, to their family members and receiving fewer health-care services themselves under the current system. A new paradigm for health care that doesn't address this disparity won't be any fairer to women than the failed system we have now."

A YouTube video from the California Nurses Association about the Weiner Amendment. The synopsis reads, "The Weiner Amendment is a substitute amendment that would replace language in healthcare reforms now being debated in congress with single payer language to provide healthcare for everyone. There is still hope for real change. Please call your congressperson and ask them to support the Weiner Amendment."

Maria Puente reports for the USA Today: "Secrets, comedian Chris Rock declares slyly, are bad for the human spirit. That's why he's gleefully talking out of school in his new documentary, Good Hair, which has some people rolling in the aisles and others rolling their eyes."

David Fahrenthold from the Washington Post attempts to answer the question of "what's the difference between a man and a woman?"

David Crary of the Associated Press in New York interviews NOW President Terry O'Neill on what she's done since being elected as president in June: "Men behaving badly. It wasn't a topic that Terry O'Neill expected to find high on her agenda as new president of the National Organization for Women, but she's tackling it with zest and determination."

USA Today's Sharon Jayson reports on the first National Tween Girl Summit and studies on body image issues and self-esteem.

USA Today's Mimi Hall reports on how some insurers allowed to charge women more for the same policies: "Women's health groups, legal organizations and some female senators are fighting for a host of little-known provisions in the health care legislation being debated in Congress that they say will dramatically improve health care and insurance coverage for women."

Julianne Malveaux's opinion in USA Today on why women need health care reform: " For all we say about caring for women and children, women get the short end of the stick where medical insurance is concerned. Women use the health care system more than men, partly because of their reproductive needs. Yet women are less able to afford care than men because we earn, on average, 77% of what men earn."

The New York Times published an editorial arguing that: "In a rational system of medical care, there would be virtually no restrictions on financing abortions."

"Lack of health insurance kills 45,000 American adults a year, according to a new study published in the American Journal of Public Health. . . . Even with health insurance, many Americans are a medical crisis away from bankruptcy," writes Holly Sklar (distributed by McClatchy-Tribune News Service).

National Journal reports: "In a bid to wrangle concessions from the Blue Dog Coalition on healthcare reform, House leaders Thursday released CBO estimates for liberals' preferred version of the public option that show $85 billion more in savings than for the version the Blue Dogs prefer."

NOW President Terry O'Neill is quoted in this Associated Press article by David Crary about the debate over health care reform and abortion coverage.

Matthew Creamer reports for Advertising Age: "A group of French politicians led by an expert on eating disorders wants to put warnings on airbrushed photo spreads in magazines as well as doctored shots used in advertisements and packaging."

Kimberly Seals Allers writes for Women's eNews: "If African American, Latino and Native American babies are too often in jeopardy, that means that this country is miserably failing women of color, and black women in particular, in the process of birthing healthy babies."