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Do I need to take hormones?
Doctors used to give every postmenopausal woman hormones, but these days they are only prescribed for symptom management. If a woman is troubled by hot flashes...
Sep 6, 2012
WOMEN'S HEALTH ANNUAL
Menopause has been misunderstood, maligned, and made into musicals. But the cessation of menstruation and the bodily changes that accompany it shouldn’t be something to grieve. Rather,...
Sep 6, 2012
WOMEN'S HEALTH ANNUAL
Call them what you will—generation Y, generation next, echo boomers, millennials. They probably won’t answer you anyway. Generational identity isn’t a big thing for the young women who are...
Sep 6, 2012
WOMEN'S HEALTH ANNUAL
For many of us, it's fun to watch celebrities discover family-tree secrets on TV. But DNA research helps people in far more ways than simply entertainment. The Knight Diagnostic Laboratories,...
Sep 6, 2012
WOMEN'S HEALTH ANNUAL
Each year in Oregon, about 300 women are diagnosed with ovarian cancer. Most of them, according to Tanja Pejovic, MD, PhD, are diagnosed when the disease is advanced; they are treated by...
Sep 6, 2012
WOMEN'S HEALTH ANNUAL
The American Heart Association recommends 150 minutes a week of moderate aerobic exercise—that’s 30 minutes a day, five times a week. But Tina M. Kaufman, PhD, assistant professor in...
Sep 6, 2012
WOMEN'S HEALTH ANNUAL
While many women receive regular mammograms and Pap smears, they often overlook the tests that monitor heart health. Cancer remains a large concern, to be sure, but the discrepancy is...
Sep 6, 2012
WOMEN'S HEALTH ANNUAL
For patients of Paula Amato, there are no gray areas, no charts with lines that curve up or down to indicate improvement or decline. There’s only positive or negative—one or the...
Sep 6, 2012
WOMEN'S HEALTH ANNUAL
Christmas comes but once a year. So, traditionally, did a woman’s Pap test. But the most recent guidelines from the American Cancer Society and the US Preventive Services Task Force...
Sep 6, 2012
WOMEN'S HEALTH ANNUAL
If you’re someone who tries to stay on top of the latest recommendations about your health, you may have found the news about vitamins and supplements more confusing than helpful in recent...
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