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Fran Drescher is about to embark on a huge cocktail dance cruise on June 21 from 5 p.m. to 8 p.m. on the Hornblower Hybrid at Pier 40, 353 West Street in Manhattan, just in time for NYC Pride Week. It’s a Sunday Funday! Drescher hopes to...
Written by guest blogger Ronna Benjamin, BetterAfter50.com “Are you playing the ‘C Card’?” A friend asked me the other day. I knew exactly what she meant, of course- asking for favors or sympathy based on a cancer diagnosis.  As in, “I’m so...
Written by guest blogger Ronna Benjamin, BetterAfter50.com It is early, very early, Saturday morning as I write this. I am a little out of sorts, and didn’t notice until rereading this over for the 3rd time that I initially wrote, “it is early...
Written by guest blogger Ronna Benjamin, BetterAfter50.com The nurse at the renowned Dana Farber Cancer Institute asked for my email address. "It's ronna@betterafter50.com," I told her. I repeated the address, to make sure she knew not to spell out...
Scientific research ties talc powder to ovarian cancer. Now Johnson & Johnson is facing a slew of lawsuits Deane Berg’s doctor called her in the day after Christmas, 2006, to give her the crushing news. She’d had her ovaries removed, the...

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