IN SPITE OF scientific and medical advances in recent years, the AIDS pandemic remains the greatest public health crisis of our time. Each day 6,000 people die of AIDS and there are 7,000 new infections. These statistics are difficult to comprehend until you see the faces of those most often affected - young women, between [...]
People who succeed and lose weight and keep it off eat very, very differently, Dr Carolyn Clancy, director of the US Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) in Rockville, Maryland, said Health. Essentially, youve got to eat a whole lot less.
Clancy has written about the realities of operations to promote weight loss, known as [...]
The Silver Springs Task Force and Stand Tall have collaborated to bring a Wellness Fair to their community on Saturday Health Sexual, April 26, from 11:00 a.m.-2:00 p.m. at the Silver Stage High School gym.
The free event will include many opportunities for interactive fun and free services, and folks can stop by for a free [...]
When Sun Health was planning its 2nd annual Women’s Day of Health, it went directly to the source to find out what issues were important.
Organizer Gina Herrera, manager of Women’s Health Services at Sun Health Del E. Webb hospital, said that the day was planned after consulting a group of women aged 25 to 64.
“The [...]
New data collected by NSW researchers has given the clearest picture yet of the number of women who get persistent feelings of sadness and worthlessness in the weeks or months after giving birth.
A team from the University of Newcastle enlisted 2,500 women aged between 28 and 33 who had given birth in the past four [...]
If you’re a busy woman looking for rejuvenation, come to the Avera Professional Office Pavilion and Education Center from 5:30-7:30 p.m. Tuesday, March 18, for a fun and informative night out with the girls.
Avera Sacred Heart Hospital is hosting a special women’s health topics event featuring Deb Soholt, RN, Director of Women’s Services at Avera [...]
DETROIT, MI–(Marketwire - March 18, 2008) - Women attending the March 26th performance of “Menopause The Musical?” at the Gem Theater at 333 Madison Street will have the opportunity to talk about digestive health with nationally recognized women’s health specialist Dr. Judith Reichman. This special event is part of “Straight Talk on Women’s GI Health [...]
Ten years ago this month, erectile dysfunction — a once-whispered-about disorder — did more than just come out of the closet. ED, as it’s now known, began strutting across America’s television screens.Bob Dole started talking. Then the grandfatherly former senator stepped aside and NASCAR drivers took over. Then a middle-aged garage band soon crooned, “Viva [...]
Feb. 29 (Bloomberg) — Wyeth, maker of the worlds best-
selling antidepressant Effexor, won U.S. approval to sell
Pristiq, a quicker-acting remedy.
The Food and Drug Administration approved the pill, derived
from Effexor, to treat [...]
The trade-offs, however, are a high rate of false-positive results, which lead to unnecessary biopsies.
The findings were based on data from 22 studies that included 8139 women who carried the BRCA1 gene. In addition, the researchers developed a prediction model based on data from the Surveillance Epidemiology and End Results (SEER) Programme (1975-1980) and the [...]
