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Routine Vaccines and Cancer

By Lisa Lowry, RN, BSN During the winter months one of the most common questions that health care professionals answer is whether or not to get vaccinated with the influenza and pneumococcal vaccinations. Even though these are the vaccines people are most familiar with there are also other vaccinations, such as polio, measles-mumps-rubella (MMR), and […]

How to Talk to Your Guy About Your Health Concerns

Submitted by Dele Ogunleye, MD, Advanced Women’s Healthcare When you mention PMS, heavy periods, or yeast infections and your guy cringes, changes the subject, or flees the room, it’s not that he doesn’t care. He probably just has no clue how to talk about your health problems. One survey found that 63 percent of men […]

Eliminate Self-Defeating Behavior

By Ron Maier, MA, LCPC We call them New Year’s Resolutions, but you can choose to make changes for the better anytime in the year. The problem isn’t when you make resolutions; it’s following through. Hopefully the ideas that follow will help you do that. What we’re talking about is changing habits — ways of […]

Are You Getting Too Much BPA?

By Laurine Brown, PhD, MPH, RD If you’re like most Americans you’ve likely got some bisphenol A (BPA) cluttering your body. Given our intimate relationship with this tongue-twisting substance, we ought to understand more about its origins and fate, especially since a growing body of evidence is linking it to serious health risks. What do […]