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Proactive Prevention in the New Year
If you’ve resolved to lose weight or hit the gym more often in the new year, you’re not alone. While many make these kind of goals to look better or gain more energy, taking care of yourself has another major benefit—disease prevention. And that’s even more important if you’re genetically predisposed to a certain kind [...]
Stress and Breast Cancer
Being diagnosed with breast cancer can understandably be tough on any woman—but imagine being diagnosed the very day your husband’s vice presidential bid ends. Then, once the cancer has gone into remission, having it return in the midst of your husband’s grueling campaign for presidency. And then, as if all that weren’t enough, fighting the [...]
Oh, Sugar! All About Gestational Diabetes
Pregnancy can throw a lot of curveballs your way—morning sickness, Braxton-Hicks contractions, strange cravings—but one development that catches many women by surprise and turns your 40 weeks into a whole new ballgame is the onset of gestational diabetes. The result of high blood sugar in pregnancy, gestational diabetes affects approximately 18 percent of women, according [...]
The Pros (and Cons) of Progestin-Only Birth Control
Continuing in her series on contraception, Dr. Julie Leizer talks the pros and cons of progestin-only birth control. Some of the most commonly used methods of birth control are hormonal. However, there are 2 different types of hormonal birth control- combined (containing estrogen and progesterone) and progestin-only. Both types are equally effective when used properly, [...]
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