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Living Well | Prevention Practice | Treatment and Medication | Fertility and Pregnancy | Sexual Health and Behavior | Mental Health | Exercise and Nutrition
Living Well
  • All forms of smoking are bad for you
  • Alternative therapies to quit smoking
  • Antibacterial products: can you be too clean?
  • Boutique options offer greater choice in medical care
  • BPA raising concerns
  • Computing in comfort
  • Control the craving to smoke
  • Coping with fatigue from chemotherapy
  • Coping with hair loss from chemotherapy
  • Dealing with hair loss in women
  • Diabetes and alcohol: caution when mixing
  • Eat well, exercise well, be well: dietary and fitness guidelines
  • E-cigarettes: a safe substitute for smokers?
  • Exercising through hormonal changes
  • Feathering your empty nest
  • Finding Health Information You Can Trust
  • Fluoride and your bones: a mixed bag
  • Good intentions gone awry: how to keep your health habits in balance
  • Having trouble catching those z's?
  • Health is the whole…body, mind, and soul
  • Health spending accounts: a complement to regular health insurance
  • How your clothes protect you from the sun
  • Interpreting prescription drug advertising
  • Intimate partner violence: recognizing abuse
  • Job-related weight gain: battling the bulge at work
  • Keep the weight off when you quit smoking
  • Managing symptoms of menopause
  • Mastalgia
  • Mastalgia: benign breast pain
  • Napping: medicine for the weary
  • Natural tips for better sleep
  • No more sleepless nights: dealing with insomnia
  • Ordering your own lab tests
  • Permanent makeup: why and how?
  • Protect your skin: how to avoid sun exposure
  • Quitting smoking after a heart attack
  • Reasons to quit smoking
  • Safe bet: seat belts improve your odds
  • Sleep: are you getting enough?
  • Sun exposure: finding a balance
  • Sunless tanning: What are your options?
  • Support for smokers wanting to quit
  • Symptoms of menopause: could your thyroid be the cause?
  • Teeth whitening: what are your options?
  • The American Heart Association’s guidelines for women
  • The hygiene hypothesis: how valid is it?
  • The role of family medical history in your health
  • Tips for getting a good night sleep
  • Tips on coping with anemia related to chemotherapy
  • Understanding hair loss
  • Using cosmetics safely
  • Vitamin D: let the sun shine?
  • When a loved one has chronic fatigue syndrome or fibromyalgia
  • Women's health myths
  • Your body fat percentage: what does it mean?
  • Understanding foster care
 
Prevention Practice
  • Achieving and maintaining a healthful weight
  • Antibacterial products: can you be too clean?
  • Are you allergic to your jewelry?
  • Be a partner in your COPD care
  • Be a partner in your heart failure care
  • Breast cancer screening: research and guidelines
  • Breast self-exam (BSE)
  • Brush your teeth—it’s good for your heart
  • Cancer tests that can save your life
  • Chronic Inflammation and Disease
  • COPD When to call for help
  • Decision making tool: should I have a mammogram?
  • Diabetes and cardiovascular disease: what’s the link?
  • Do you have prehypertension?
  • Fibrocystic breast changes: lumps that are normal
  • Foot problems: could you be wearing the wrong shoes?
  • Get moving to prevent blood clots
  • Health screenings for women
  • Heart attack in women (myocardial infarction)
  • Heart Failure: Salt and fluids
  • Heart Failure: When to call for help
  • High blood pressure linked to inflammation
  • How to wash your hands properly
  • HPV DNA testing approved for cervical cancer screening
  • Irritable bowel syndrome: strategies for managing a complex condition
  • Isolation precautions
  • Knowing your ejection fraction
  • Learn your diabetic ABCs
  • Lowering heart disease risk is more than just lowering your cholesterol number
  • Metal toxicity: your brain under siege
  • New recommendations to prevent high blood pressure
  • Physical activity for people wiht heart failure
  • Preventing carbon monoxide poisoning
  • Preventing errors and infections during surgery: steps for hospital staff and patients
  • Preventing infections in the hospital: steps for hospital staff and patients
  • Preventing liver disease
  • Protect yourself from tickborne illnesses
  • Real-life stories of weight loss
  • Reducing your risk of heart disease when you have diabetes
  • Skin self-exam
  • Stay safe and sound with self-defense
  • The immune system and organ transplant: what you should know
  • Tips to help you stop smoking
  • Toxic shock syndrome: tampons and more
  • Traveling when you need oxygen therapy
  • Watch your back
  • Ways to prevent osteoporosis
  • Why you should be smoke-free for surgery
  • Women's health myths
 
Treatment and Medication
  • Alternative therapies for allergies
  • Antibiotic safety
  • Autoimmune disease and women
  • Bone mineral density testing: who needs it?
  • Botulism: killer or wonder drug?
  • Cold medicines
  • Cosmetic "non-surgery"
  • Cosmetic surgery: a rundown of procedures
  • Easing a headache the natural way
  • Genetic testing: look before you leap
  • Ghrelin, the hunger hormone: could it be the key to weight loss?
  • Health check-ups for women
  • Health insurance: choosing the plan that's right for you
  • Hormone replacement therapy (HRT)
  • Hormone replacement therapy: a look at the options
  • How to choose a therapist or counselor
  • How to safely dispose of medications
  • In search of the perfect physician
  • Liposuction: weighing the risks and benefits
  • Medical care for the DES daughter
  • Medical marijuana
  • Medication for women with advanced breast cancer
  • Organ donation: the gift of life
  • Palliative Care: Breathing problems
  • Palliative Care: Heart Failure
  • Physical activity for people with COPD
  • Preventing medical errors
  • Shared decision making and your health
  • Silicone breast implants: are they safe?
  • Starting life skin to skin
  • Surgery at the doctor's office: what you need to know
  • Taking care of your diabetes when you are away from home
  • Taking care of your diabetes when you are at school or work
  • Taking care of your diabetes when you are sick
  • Traveling for treatment: weighing the risks of medical tourism
  • Treating latex allergy
  • Variant angina: heart spasms
  • What can I do about kidney disease?
  • What to ask when you need surgery
  • What you need to know about managing lupus
  • When to worry about head injuries
 
Fertility and Pregnancy
  • Baby on the way? Keep smoking at bay
  • Birth control for breastfeeding women
  • Bladder control during pregnancy
  • Breastfeeding and working: you can do it
  • Breastfeeding successfully
  • Breastfeeding with breast implants: can you do it?
  • Cancer treatment and fertility in women
  • Common discomforts and bodily changes during pregnancy
  • Dealing with miscarriage
  • Eating for appropriate weight gain during pregnancy
  • Fertility preservation options
  • Group B strep screening: don’t wait until it’s too late
  • In-home pregnancy tests: your questions answered
  • Is a cesarean delivery right for you?
  • Is it safe to eat fish during pregnancy?
  • Managing Diabetes When You Are Pregnant
  • Managing symptoms of pregnancy
  • Medications and pregnancy
  • Mommy massage: for a healthy, relaxed pregnancy
  • New dimensions in prenatal ultrasound: 3D and 4D
  • Pain management during childbirth: what are your options?
  • Postpartum fitness
  • Pregnancy and housework: could you be putting your baby at risk?
  • Pregnancy and sleep: a contradiction in terms?
  • Pregnancy skin: glowing, stretching, darkening and more
  • Reducing food-borne risks during pregnancy
  • Rh explained
  • Taking your preemie home
  • The flu shot and pregnancy
  • The labor dispute: epidural or natural childbirth?
  • True or false: you can predict your baby’s gender by how you carry the pregnancy
  • Watch out for pregnancy pitfalls after age 40
 
Sexual Health and Behavior
  • A less invasive sterilization option for women
  • An STD now can result in infertility later
  • Contraception: what are your options?
  • Learning about birth control pills
  • Lupus and intimacy
  • Oral contraceptives: risks and benefits
  • Pregnancy and STDs
  • Reclaiming sexuality after gynecologic cancer
  • Thereissex after breast cancer
  • When a woman loses desire: sexual dysfunction in women
 
Mental Health
  • Eating disorders: when food and weight take control
  • Growing up sober: a challenging journey for adult children of alcoholics
  • Helpful tips: holidays with your children's grandparents
  • How to choose a therapist or counselor
  • Now it's time to say goodbye: ending friendships
  • Parasomnias: things that go bump in the night
  • Resolving conflicts at work and at home
  • Taking risks in love and life
  • True or false: depression and suicide rates rise during the holiday season
  • Understanding seasonal affective disorder
  • When your best friend has breast cancer
 
Exercise and Nutrition
  • Heart healthy physical activity
  • A family's guide to tackling eating disorders
  • Anemia: how food and vitamins can help
  • Eating a diet rich in fruits and vegetables
  • Exercise for chronic disease relief
  • Fighting your inner sloth: getting into a daily exercise routine
  • Finding folate
  • Foods designed for women: healthful snacks or a marketing ploy?
  • Gluten-free MyPlate
  • Health clubs: getting the most for your money
  • Get back in the game after plantar fasciitis
  • In the kitchen with rosacea
  • Iron: are you getting enough?
  • Just how much food is on that plate? Understanding portion control
  • Kegel exercises
  • Mind-body walking: medicine for body and spirit
  • Nutrition and menopause
  • Pilates: a classic workout for a new body
  • Role of Exercise in Type 2 Diabetes
  • Supermarket savvy
  • The importance of counting carbs if you have diabetes
  • Walk this way to fitness
  • Weight loss: what are your options?
  • What is the glycemic index?
  • What to eat if you have diabetes

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