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Womens Health

My Doctor Says: Get a Boob Job

Roni Zeiger | Posted 09.18.2009 | Living

Read More: Physicians, Advertising, Women's Health, Plastic Surgery, Health Care Reform, Doctors, Evidence Based Decision Making, Medical Costs, Patients, Medicine, Health Care, Evidence-Based Medicine, Living News
Roni Zeiger

A pamphlet I received from our family doctor offering plastic surgery made my jaw drop. And it begs the question of whether the primary goal of our provider is my health or their profit.

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What Is Work? Finding Your Path by Laying the Bricks

Sharon Glassman | Posted 09.17.2009 | Living

Read More: Natural Resources Healthcare, Women's Health, Acupuncture, Naturopathic, Women Construction Workers, Career Advice, Deepak Chopra, JoHannah Reilly, Careers, Natural Medicine, Boulder, Colorado, Pearl St. Mall, Medicine, Alternative Medicine, Living News
Sharon Glassman

There's nothing like asking someone about their work to distract you from the fact that they're sticking a dozen needles into your torso.

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Sleep Linked to Infertility

Dr. Michael J. Breus | Posted 09.15.2009 | Living

Read More: Women's Health, Insomnia, Infertility, Sleep Deprivation, Health, Sleep Disorders, Sleep, Sex, Living News
Dr. Michael J. Breus

All the healthy, pure food in the world and all the attention to getting your body into tip-top prenatal shape won't cure a hormonal system gone awry from missing sleep.

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Plumbing, Discrimination, and Health Insurance Rates

Laura Chapin | Posted 09.12.2009 | Politics

Read More: Health Care Reform, Gender Discrimination, Colorado, Insurance Industry, Women's Rights, Women's Health, Sen. Joyce Foster, Health Care Discrimination, Jamie Scholl, Politics News
Laura Chapin

Why do we need health care reform with a public option? Because one of the last bastions of legal discrimination against women is the individual health care market.

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Five Simple Moves to Get Your Pre-Pregnancy Body Back With Minimal Effort

Danielle Cavallucci | Posted 09.09.2009 | Living

Read More: Women's Health, Post-Pregnancy, Fitness, Pregnancy, Women's Fitness, Exercise Tips, Postpartum Diet, Living News
Danielle Cavallucci

There are some simple moves you can start making as soon as your body feels up to it that can make all the difference in rebounding your body post-birth.

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Sleeplessness Worse for Women

Dr. Michael J. Breus | Posted 09.06.2009 | Living

Read More: Women, Health, Insomnia, Women's Health, Heart Health, Heart Disease, Sleep Deprivation, Sleep, Living News
Dr. Michael J. Breus

If a woman gets fewer than 8 hours of sleep, her risk for heart disease goes up (according to biological indications), but men don't seem to show such a significant increase in their risk.

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Does Your Past Ever Haunt You?

Hillary Rubin | Posted 09.05.2009 | Living

Read More: Joan Borysenko, Hillary Rubin, Women's Health, Life Coaching, Lupus, Drugs, Drug Abuse, Prada, Diagnosis of Multiple Sclerosis, Recreational Drug Use, Consciousness, Living News
Hillary Rubin

My life was focused on looking good, being at the right parties and doing whatever it took to make it to the top. You had to work to get into the inner circles. Drugs were a must.

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Safe Breast Self Exam by Young Women vs. Dangers of Mammography

Samuel S. Epstein | Posted 09.05.2009 | Living

Read More: Dangers of Mammography, EARLY Act, Women's Health, Acs, Womens Issues, Mammograms, Breast Cancer, Breast Cancer Awareness, Breast Cancer Mastectomy, Living News
Samuel S. Epstein

A premenopausal woman having annual mammograms over 10 years is exposed to similar levels of radiation as a Japanese woman who was about a mile away from the Hiroshima bomb.

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Dental Health and Menopause

Patricia Yarberry Allen | Posted 09.03.2009 | Living

Read More: Periodontitis, Dr. Steve Butensky.Menopause. Oral Health, X Dental Health, Women's Health, Splintered Crowns, Oral Surgeon, Living News
Patricia Yarberry Allen

Dental and gum health are not only essential to proper mastication (chewing), but problems that you describe can lead to pain, chronic infections and let's face it, self-esteem.

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Misleading Attacks on Women's Health

Cecile Richards | Posted 09.03.2009 | Politics

Read More: Abortion, Birth Control, Reproductive Health, Health Care Reform, Women's Health, Cecile Richards, Family Research Council, Health Care, Choice, Planned Parenthood, Politics News
Cecile Richards

It was only a matter of time before the right-wing campaign against health care reform began to focus on abortion, and last week the Family Research Council pulled out all the stops.

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The Reality of Post-Baby Body Bounceback

Jeana Lee Tahnk | Posted 08.31.2009 | Living

Read More: Pregnancy, Women's Health, Body, Advice, Post-Baby, Us Weekly, Parenting, Celebrities, Celebrity Parents, Celebrity Body, Living News
Jeana Lee Tahnk

The tabloids love to promote the 'How I Got My Body Back' feature with every new celebrity mom. Heidi Klum famously strutted her stuff eight weeks after giving birth. The reality is, it isn't real.

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Health-Boosting Blueberries: Five Easy Recipes

self.com | Posted 08.31.2009 | Living

Read More: Blueberries, Brain, Nutrition, Health, Women's Health, Food, Weight Loss, Men's Health, Eating, Food for Health, Obesity, Living News

This small fruit makes a big splash: Anthocyanins, the pigments behind blueberries' hue, may fight skin cancer and wrinkles while helping brain cells ...

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How Bad Are Your Health Vices, Really?

prevention.com | Daryl Chen | Posted 08.30.2009 | Living

Read More: Lung Cancer, Smoking, Fighting Disease, Disease, Health, Women's Health, Men's Health, Heart Disease, Drinking, Living News

Can you ever reverse the damage of a past smoking habit or the savage tans you sported into your 30s? Here, what's forgivable, what's regrettable, and...

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Polyamory: The Newest Sexual Trend

newsweek.com | Posted 08.30.2009 | Living

Read More: Marriage, Polygamy, Relationships, Polyamory, Sex, Women's Health, Straight, Men's Health, Cheating, Parenting, Gay, Love, Couples, Living News

Polyamory--relationships with multiple, mutually consenting partners--has a coming-out party....

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The Language Of Facial Expressions: Obama's Non-Verbal Reactions To Gates

ABC News | Posted 08.30.2009 | Living

Read More: Mccain-Facial-Expressions, Obama Facial Expressions, Emotion, Relationships, Women's Health, Lie to Me, Lie to Me Paul Ekman, Men's Health, Psychology, Body Language, Facial Expressions, Paul Ekman, The Inner Life, Living News

The truth, according to the popular television show "Lie to Me," is "written all over our faces," but psychologists say that visual clues are only one...

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Voice Attractiveness A Factor In Choosing A Mate

DivineCaroline | : Brie Cadman (View Profile) | Posted 08.30.2009 | Living

Read More: Attractiveness, Relationships, Sex, Dating, Voice, Women's Health, Voice Attractiveness, Men's Health, Couples, Living News

We often think of a deep baritone voice as a sexy one, but it seems too cliche to think that a romantically-inclined crooner like Barry White would ac...

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Buyer Beware: Statins To Lower Cholesterol Are Not a Panacea

Christiane Northrup, MD | Posted 08.29.2009 | Living

Read More: The Wisdom of Menopause, Crestor, Women's Bodies Women's Wisdom, Statins, Women's Health, Cholesterol, Healthy Lifestyle, Inflammation, Statin Drugs, Living News
Christiane Northrup, MD

I'm sure that many of you read about the study showing that Crestor, a popular statin drug manufactured by AstraZeneca, has been found to confer an ad...

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In Defense of Women's Magazines

Cathy Alter | Posted 08.21.2009 | Living

Read More: Instyle, Liz Jones, Oprah Winfrey, Glamour, Women's Magazines, Vogue, Women's Health, Cosmopolitan, Marie Claire, Living News
Cathy Alter

For an entire year, I turned my life over to a slew of women's magazines and followed their advice to the letter. And guess what? It worked!

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What Would You Do If You Woke Up Tomorrow and You Were Beautiful?

Marcia G. Yerman | Posted 08.17.2009 | Living

Read More: Asian American Identity, Looksism, Proposition 8, Women's Issues, Beautiful, LIFETIME Television, Women's Health, Margaret Cho, Eating Disorders, Drop Dead Diva, Beauty, Showtime, All American Girl, Women and Body Image, Gender, Living News
Marcia G. Yerman

Cho's All American Girl was replaced in the line-up by The Drew Carey Show. Cho pointed out that a double standard was at play. Why wasn't Carey, also a comedian, judged by his looks?

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AARP's Bait and Switch on Health Care

Martha Burk | Posted 08.16.2009 | Politics

Read More: Older Women's League, Older Women, Senate Finance Committee, Senate Health Committee, Health Committee, Women's Health, Health Care Reform, Aarp, Health Insurance, Politics News
Martha Burk

The health committee bill would require older folks to pay some multiple of the premiums charged to younger people for the same coverage, just because of their age.

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Motherhood: Is It Ever Too Late?

Jacob M. Appel | Posted 08.15.2009 | Living

Read More: Medical Ethics, Women's Rights, Women, Late Motherhood, Women's Issues, Personal Health, Motherhood, Parenting, Ivf, Women's Health, Health, Women and Politics, Living, Bioethics, Medicine, Health Care, Living News
Jacob M. Appel

Births to women in their late fifties and early sixties are no longer international news. Whether they are empowering or irresponsible has been a matter of ongoing debate.

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US Congress: Keep Your Word to Abused Women

Meghan Rhoad | Posted 08.15.2009 | Politics

Read More: Women's Rights, Women, House of Representatives, Abuse, Violence Against Women, Emergency Shelter, Portland, Budget, Economic Crisis, Oregon, Appropriations, Pregnancy, Joe Biden, Women's Health, Family Violence, Domestic Violence, Politics News
Meghan Rhoad

When Michelle arrived at the shelter in Portland, Oregon, staff members had to help her remove her earring because the side of her face was so swollen from the last beating by her abuser.

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Eating Disorders In Middle Age

Anorexia | Randi Hutter Epstein | Posted 08.14.2009 | Living

Read More: Mental Health, Dieting, Anorexia, Women's Health, Eating Disorders, Men's Health, Parenting, Anorexia Adults, Bulimia, Middle Age, Health, Living News

Margie Hodgin, a nurse in Kernersville, N.C., had struggled to lose weight since she was a teenager. But it wasn't until she turned 40 that she finall...

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Nursing Home Compare: Get The Stats

washingtonpost.com | Elizabeth G. Olson | Posted 08.14.2009 | Living

Read More: Caring for Elderly, Elderly, Nursing Home Ratings, Mental Health, Elderly Americans, Nusing Homes, Health, Women's Health, Men's Health, Nursing Home Online Ratings, The Balanced Life, Living News

When 81-year-old Sally Darr needed nursing home care after injuring herself in a fall, her family turned to a new federal rating system for help. Th...

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VA Health Care for Women Veterans

Kayla Williams | Posted 08.14.2009 | Home

Read More: Women, Iraq Veterans, Veterans Affairs, Oif, Health Care, Women's Health, Veterans, Home News
Kayla Williams

Beyond the general public, even Veterans Affairs employees are still sometimes unclear on the nature of modern warfare and women's role in it, presenting challenges for women seeking care.

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