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Posted in General on Jul 21st, 2013
This year’s Primary Care for Women seminar is chock-full of new speakers and new information critical to treating women for primary care issues. Features of our August 9-11, 2013 seminar include: – Integrating natural medicine and prescription meds in the management of hypertension – Using medical apps to enhance your practice and patient care – […]
One of the most common but frequent consequences of hormonal changes associated with perimenopause and menopause is dry eyes. In fact, the majority of those who suffer dry eye, are midlife women and older. In one study, presented at the annual meeting of the North American Menopause Society, 96% of 582 women with dry eye […]
Posted in General, Prevention on Jun 23rd, 2013
Current exercise guidelines according to the US Department of Health and Human Services state that adults should engage in moderately intense physical activity for a minimum of 30 minutes per day for five days a week. Certainly an easy statement to make, but not so easy to accomplish with busy lives and a robust list […]
Posted in Cardiovascular, General, Mind and Emotional, Prevention, Stress on Jun 9th, 2013
Women who participated in the Nurses’ Health Study, were evaluated for the relationship between sleep duration and hypertension. In women who slept 5 hours or less, the incidence of hypertension was significantly higher than among those women who slept 7 hours. This association of 5 hours or less and hypertension was seen only in women […]
Posted in Depression, General, Mind and Emotional on May 27th, 2013
Two recent studies suggest that select medications during pregnancy may increase the risk of autism in the child. The first study looked at the use of antidepressants during pregnancy in a Swedish study. The records of 4,429 children who had been diagnosed with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) were reviewed and compared with 43,000 age and […]
Posted in Bone Health, Bone Loss, Calcium, Nutrition, Osteoarthtritis, Prevention on May 22nd, 2013
A great deal of confusion has been stirred up in the last few months about the potential harm of too much calcium intake. As is often the case, there are studies that reveal conflicting results. Examples of this include the following summaries: 1) Calcium from food does not appear to raise the risk of cardiovascular […]
Posted in Dietary Supplements, Pregnancy, Prevention on Apr 24th, 2013
It has been known for some time now that folic acid supplementation during pregnancy can protect against neural tube defects. More recently though, there is some evidence that it may be associated with lower occurrences of other neurodevelopmental disorders. In the current study, researchers used data from a nationwide Norwegian group of > 85,000 children […]
Posted in General, Prevention, Vaginal Health on Apr 15th, 2013
A study was done by Johns Hopkins biophysicists to investigate several different personal lubricants currently available on the market, and to compare their effect on genital tissues and susceptibility to infections. The researchers took the path of analyzing osmolarity of the products. Osmolarity describes the concentration of chemical ingredients within a cell and products with […]
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