Read my story at CoolHunting. A therapeutics designer and a medical diagnostics professional have created a handheld device that delivers skincare ingredients below the surface of the skin to improve the outcome for everything from wrinkles and fine lines to acne and dark spots. But […]
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Ten of the Best Facial Sunscreens For Your 40s
I’m a sunscreen junkie. Not by choice. More out of necessity. After all, most sunscreen is greasy, sticky, smelly, white-casty, stingy, and slippery all at once. You’d think that nearly 40 years of scientific development would have changed that, but the truth is, there is […]
The 10 Best Sunscreens For Over-40 Skin
Read my story at The Candidly. It’s taken literally decades of searching but as a self-described sunscreen junky (thanks, Mom!), I have finally found the holy grail of sunscreens for my over-40 skin. You can see all the things I recommend, plus photos of me […]
How Technology Can Bring Breakthroughs to Every, Single Bedside
As innovation accelerates across the healthcare field, these leaps forward are perhaps nowhere more pressing than in the fight against cancer. In this 2023 SXSW Fast Company panel discussion, discover how revolutionary advancements in healthcare are unlocking new paradigms and methods—especially for cancer control and […]
What I Learned About Makeup As an On-Air Personality
Check out my full post on The Candidly. There your purchases may earn The Candidly commission. Here they earn no commission (and I bought every single one of these products myself). Makeup can be amazing, or it can bring you to tears. But, as someone […]
Why You Need Lingerie in Your Life (Even When You’re in Your 40s)
Some of us are lucky and start to feel more powerful as we age. Some of us aren’t, and things just kind of cool and diminish in the bedroom. Sometimes it is literally just the stage of life/work/kids/health – and 99% of the time, it’s […]
These 8 Products WILL Give You the Glass Skin of Your Dreams
My skin and I have been at odds since age 13. As a lifelong swimmer, continually exposed to massive doses of chlorine and sun, my skin has always been what most dermatologists refer to as “combination”– that lovely effect of both peeling off and breaking […]
How Overturning Roe v. Wade Could Impact Contraception Access and Gay Marriage
The leaked Supreme Court draft decision on abortion could foreshadow the dismantling of a variety of long-standing rights for women and the LGBTQ+ community. On May 2, in an unprecedented leak, a draft decision in the abortion case Dobbs v. Jackson ended up in the hands […]
Why Isn’t Women’s Pain Taken Seriously?
A brief history of implicit bias and racism when it comes to treating women of color’s pain, and what we can do to stop it. By Abigail Bassett AUG 26, 2021 From maternal mortality to breast cancer survival to mental health treatment, healthcare outcomes for women […]
The Talent Equation: The Future of Women in STEM
The COVID-19 pandemic resulted in unprecedented scientific strides. As the world’s attention turned to scientific discovery to stop the virus’s spread, many burgeoning doctors, scientists, engineers, and technicians were inspired to pursue careers in research. In this custom episode of Innovation Festival 360, Fast Company […]
Breast Cancer and Women of Color
Breast cancer outcomes are worse for Black women and women of color. We take a look at the causes and potential solutions.
Writing an Online Magazine for MasterClass and Yoga Instructor, Donna Farhi
Over the holidays, an old colleague of mine asked me to write a big online magazine for world-famous yoga instructor Donna Farhi and her MasterClass. I was honored to dig deep on the practice that I love so very much. Download the online magazine below […]