by Mitzi | Jul 5, 2016 | Women's Health
Breast Cancer: Don’t Over diagnose, Do Improve Lifestyle Avoid Overdiagnosis When you screen a healthy population for breast cancer, you’re going to get over-diagnosis. This has become particularly evident. As screening practices switched from film-based...
by Mitzi | Jun 21, 2016 | Women's Health
Pelvic Pain: A Different Approach To Treatment Pelvic Pain Is Common And Can Be Debilitating At any one time, as many as 20 percent of reproductive-age women may be experiencing pelvic pain. This can range from a mild ache that comes and goes to steady and severe...
by Mitzi | Jun 7, 2016 | Women's Health
Headaches and Hormones Most Headaches Seen By Primary Care Physicians Are Migraines Ninety percent of patients who see their Primary Care Physician (PCP) for a headache are there because of a migraine headache. Further, almost 30% of patients in a PCP’s waiting room...
by Mitzi | Apr 26, 2016 | Women's Health
News You Can Use: Recent Studies That May Change Your Practice CALCIUM AND VITAMIN D RECOMMENDATIONS ARE CHANGING Our long-standing emphasis on calcium and vitamin D supplementation is currently being called into question. In the case of calcium supplementation, there...
by Mitzi | Apr 12, 2016 | Women's Health
Heart Disease In Women: It’s Different HEART DISEASE IS A WOMAN’S DISEASE In the 1950s, we all thought heart disease was a man’s disease. However, more women are dying of heart disease than men. Also, even though the mortality rates for both men and women are...
by Mitzi | Mar 29, 2016 | Women's Health
Recurrent Vaginitis MOST WOMEN WILL AT SOME TIME EXPERIENCE VAGINITIS At some point in their lives, most women will experience vaginitis. It’s one of the most common gynecologic condition encountered in the office. Typically, it comes about when the yeast or bacteria...
