Angelina Jolie Has Second Surgery | Jolie's Impact On BRCA Screening Is Huge
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Angelina Jolie shared one more reason why she is among the world’s most admired women, writing an op ed in The New York Times about her latest preventive surgery. Two years ago the world star had a double mastectomy after learning that she carries the BRCA1 gene. Angelina Jolie Pitt, the name she used in today’s op ed, had an 87% risk of getting breast cancer and a 50% risk of ovarian cancer and lost her mother, grandmother and aunt to cancer.
Jolie’s recent surgery to remove her ovaries and fallopian tubes was always part of her health management plan, but a recent blood test and follow-up medical treatment prompted her to act now.
At the time of her double mastectomy, Jolie wrote: ‘I do not feel any less of a woman. I feel empowered that I made a strong choice that in no way diminishes my femininity.’
In today’s piece, Jolie reached out to women, saying ‘I feel feminine and grounded in the choices I am making for myself and my family. I know my children will never have to say ‘Mom died of ovarian cancer”.
High Impact on Women’s Health
2. In 2014 Dr. Harold Burstein from the Harvard Medical School shared news of Angelina’s impact on women getting checked for BRCA mutations. Calling her first op-ed ‘a model of medical writing’, Dr. Burstein referred to a study at the University of Toronto that examined both an increase in medical screenings and whether the subjects were medically appropriate candidates or just nervous nellies.
Focusing on their own populations in Toronto, the doctors concluded that the number of BRCA! and BRCA2 screenings doubled as a result of her op ed. The candidates for the screenings were ABSOLUTELY women who should be screened. A secondary effect was a strong increase in physician referrals by doctors influenced by the Jolie effect, health workers who probed more deeply into women’s medical histories.
Eye | Vogue Explains Meerkat | East Austin, Texas Under the Lens | Rick Perry Called By God To Serve
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Meerkat Obsessed
What Is Meerkat and Why Is Everyone Obsessed With It? Vogue.com
If you weren’t in Austin last weekend for SXSW, Vogue writes Meerkat is a new app that allows users to easily livestream video from their cellphones onto their Twitter accounts.
Another sign of the imminent rise of Meerkat is that Twitter decided to remove Meerkat from its social graph. So while Meerkat users can still broadcast live videos on their Twitter feeds, a user’s followers will no longer get a notification when a new live stream begins, making it harder to know when to tune in. This move came shortly after Twitter purchased a similar app, Periscope. But the social graph ban only increased Meerkat’s draw—who wouldn’t want to root for the little app that could?
Austin’s Friends & Neighbor’s Jill Bradshaw
The Fashion Insider’s Guide to Austin Vogue.com
In town for SXSW, Vogue’s Laird Borrelli-Persson tracked down hot spots in Austin, starting out with Jill Bradshaw’s Friends & Neighbors. ‘I wanted to see more of the sky,’says Bradshaw, who returned to her college town from Nolita in Manhattan. In New York, the teepee lover ran I Heart, a fashion boutique for emerging labels. Friends & Neighbors, mixes vintage clothing, housewares, music, and food in her signature colorful way.
Her partners in Friends & Neighbors—located in a house in East Austin —are Greg Mathews and Jade Place Mathews, who run local eatery Hillside Farmacy, as well as Brooklyn’s El Diablo Tacos at Union Pool. Check out more Austin hot spots.
Cruel Joke in Austin
Austin mayor Steve Adler called this week’s placement of professionally-printed ‘whites-only’ stickers on six businesses on the city’s East Side (home to Vogue.com highlights above) ‘an appalling and offensive display of ignorance in our city … Our city is a place where respect for all people is a part of our spirit and soul. We will keep it that way.’
State Rep. Dawnna Dukes (D-Austin) spoke loud and clear on the incident:
‘Some jokes just are not funny. If this is a joke at all, it is tasteless,’ Dukes wrote. ‘Pardon mon française mais, I will be damned if this will occur in my House District, district 46 on my watch on 12th St. in this historical Black Community or any community.’
Dukes, wrote on her Facebook page:
