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Let’s Talk About Osteoporosis
Did you know that one in two women will break a bone in their lifetime as a result of osteoporosis? That makes the condition, which causes bones to become brittle and fragile, a greater risk than breast cancer, heart attack and stroke — combined. At HealthyWomen, we want to help you better understand osteoporosis, why it’s more common in women than men, and the questions you should ask your healthcare provider about prevention, treatment, tests and more. While women who Healthy
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Dating Someone With OCD: What to Expect & How to Help
Let’s face it. Dating can be hard. There are ups and downs in any relationship, and if it’s going to work out, you need to be willing to put in the work. If you’re dating someone with OCD, you might have to put in a little bit of extra effort to build your relationship. The good news is that many people learn how to nurture thriving partnerships when someone they love has OCD. Obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) is fairly common. In talk
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University Of Iowa Health Care To Develop New Hospital Campus
University of Iowa Health Care (Iowa City, Iowa) broke ground on a new hospital campus in Liberty, Iowa, according to an article in thegazette.com. Situated on 60 acres, the $395 million, 469,000-square-foot project will include 48 inpatient beds, 21 emergency care rooms, 16 operating rooms (ORs), two procedure rooms, laboratories, and outpatient clinics. It is slated for completion in 2025. healthcare
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4 Detached Retina Symptoms that Indicate a Serious Eye Problem
You’re minding your own business when, seemingly out of nowhere, you start to see tons of small, dark spots and squiggly lines floating across your field of vision. What gives?You’ve likely had eye floaters before, but this looks different. It could be a symptom of a detached or detaching retina, and you should see your eye doctor ASAP to find out what is going on, says Julia Haller, MD, ophthalmologist in chief of Wills Eye Hospital in Philadelphia.(Related:6 Eye Doctor-Approved best
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What You Need to Know About Uterine Fibroids
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How Women of All Ages Can Prevent Osteoporosis
Medically reviewed by Dr. Andrea Singer Drink milk to make your bones grow big and strong. That’s the message that’s been fed to us since we were children, reinforced by cardboard milk cartons at school and the popular « Got milk? » advertising campaign. If only it were that simple. As women get older, they become at greater risk of developing osteoporosis. Of the approximately 10 million people who have osteoporosis in the United States, 8 million are women. While women who Healthy
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For Women, Osteoporosis Leaves Physical and Emotional Scars
To the outside world, Daniella Dayoub Forrest could be mistaken for a professional athlete. Every day, she’s intentional about what she puts into her body and the exercises she performs — and she’s lived this way for close to two decades. But behind the 44-year-old’s difficult workout schedule and strict eating regimen is a diagnosis that led her here. When she was 27, she was snowboarding with friends when she had a minor fall. She says most people would have Healthy
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It Wasn’t Muscle Damage: It Was Four Fractures and Osteoporosis
As told to Liz Sauchelli It had been two weeks since I’d slipped on the front stairs of my home and my back was still in excruciating pain. The emergency room doctor I’d seen after my fall thought I had muscle damage and had sprained my back. He prescribed anti-inflammatories and painkillers without taking an X-ray. At the time, I thought I was in too much pain for it to be a sprain, but I took his word and went Healthy
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The Complex Crisis of Period Poverty
In the 1990s, Laura Strausfeld was a law student at Columbia University in New York. One day, she went to the drug store to buy tampons. Strausfeld picked up a Chapstick at the counter thinking she could pay for it with the leftover change. That wasn’t the case: Tampons were more expensive than she thought because they had a sales tax. Chapstick, however, did not. This got Strausfeld’s lawyer-sense tingling. « The Chapstick was considered to have a medicinal use and Healthy
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Supportive Measure
One of the most used online tools from The Center for Health Design’s website is the Knowledge Repository (KR), a searchable, user-friendly library of healthcare design resources. The KR grew out of frequent requests our research team would receive asking for help in finding credible research citations on a variety of topics. With each request, a member of our team would search our internal database of studies and provide a list of appropriate journal citations. By partnering with the American healthcare
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Bright Ideas
A linguist by education, Kate O’Neill has studied more than a dozen languages. Now, as founder and CEO of KO Insights, a strategic advisory and consultancy firm committed to improving human experience at scale, she spends most of her time talking “tech” with industry, business, and civic leaders to help build data-led and technology-driven human experiences. On Sunday, Oct. 24, she’ll kick off the 2021 HCD Expo with her keynote presentation, “A Future So Bright.” Here, O’Neill answers a few healthcare
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Naomi Osaka Revealed She Loves This Percussion Massager & It’s 28% off at Nordstrom Right Now
Whether you’re a four-time Grand Slam champion or a novice beginner in your sport of choice, recovery and treating your body with respect is key to any form of athletics. If there’s one person who knows that, it’s definitely Naomi Osaka. The tennis star recently opened up about her wellness regimen and how “crucial” recovery is to her training. One recovery tech/tool brand that she swears by is Hyperice, and their Hypervolt Bluetooth Percussion Massage Device is currently 28 percent shek