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février 2, 2024Like
Redefining Menopause: Including Gender-Diverse and Trans People
Everyone who menstruates goes through menopause including gender-diverse and trans people. These three videos offer advice from experts about the LGBTQ+ menopause experience including ways to manage symptoms, find supportive providers and other helpful information. Experts include: Monica Christmas, M.D., OB-GYN and director of the Center for Women’s Integrated Health and the Menopause program at the University of Chicago Medicine, Andrew Fisher, M.D., MBE, medical director of TransCare and OB-GYN at the University of Chicago Medicine, and Traci Kurtzer, M.D., Healthy
février 2, 2024Like
Including LGBTQ+ People in the Menopause Conversation
“Because menopause happens to people.” That’s the phrase that welcomes visitors to Queer Menopause, a website designed to raise awareness of LGBTQ+ experiences in menopause, provide resources and advocate for better education for healthcare providers (HCPs). The statement itself serves as a prominent display of inclusion. Menopausal symptoms can manifest differently for everybody, and the spectrum of LGBTQ+ (including gender-diverse) identities adds additional nuance to an already individualized experience. For people who aren’t cisgender (when your gender identity matches your Healthy
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This Suction Vibrator Is So Good, One Shopper ‘Actually Stopped Breathing for a Bit’
If you purchase an independently reviewed product or service through a link on our website, SheKnows may receive an affiliate commission. If you’re shopping online for sex toys, we always recommend going to the comments section. Just about any sex toy brand worth its salt will make a toy sound delectable in the official description, but if you really want to know how it performs and all the other important details (like how loud, powerful, and truly effective it is), shek
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What You Need to Know About Dry Eye Disease
If you’ve ever felt that gritty, irritating feeling in your eyes when they’re dry, you know how bothersome it can be. Dry eyes can happen to anyone, but more than 16 million people in the United States have been diagnosed with dry eye disease, a chronic medical condition that can range from a mild annoyance to negatively affecting your quality of life — and even more go undiagnosed. People with dry eye disease can experience a range of symptoms including Healthy
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Getting the Right Diagnosis and Treatment for My Dry Eye Disease Was So Frustrating It Made Me Want to Cry
As told to Erica Rimlinger Imagine walking on the beach on a windy day. Sand blows into both your eyes. The sand hurts, itches and no amount of saline will dislodge it. Now imagine living with that sensation every day, for decades. That is my experience with dry eye disease. The symptoms started when I was a sophomore in college. Each morning, as I opened my eyes, I felt my eyelids scrape across my eyeballs like sandpaper. At this point Healthy
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AJ Thomas of Corgan: Face Time
AJ Thomas (Headshot credit: Corgan) AJ Thomas is a healthcare sector leader — principal, at Corgan, (Phoenix). In Healthcare Design’s Face Time Q+A, Thomas shares what lead him to a career in healthcare design, why it’s important to ask questions on projects, and what he considers his superpower trait. What drew you to a career in healthcare design? There were very few firms hiring in 2002 (the year I graduated with my master of architecture degree from The University of Texas healthcare
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Piedmont Healthcare Completes Tower Expansion At Piedmont Cartersville Hospital In Cartersville, Georgia
Piedmont Healthcare (Atlanta) completed a 43,100-square-foot North Tower vertical expansion at Piedmont Cartersville hospital, in Cartersville, Ga. The $25 million project added two floors to the existing three-story tower. Specifically, the new fourth floor houses additional support space and general storage and the fifth floor has 20 beds for short-stay patients. The project also included renovating and adding 11,000 square feet to the existing sterile processing department. The project team includes TMPartners (architect; Brentwood, Tenn.), McCarthy Building Companies Inc. (construction services; St. healthcare
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Mercy Health Kings Mills Hospital Opens In Mason, Ohio
Mercy Health (Cincinnati) held a ribbon cutting at Mercy Health Kings Mills Hospital in Mason, Ohio. The new hospital includes an emergency department (ED), 60 patient rooms, four operating rooms (ORs), a catheterization laboratory, interventional radiology, and an attached medical office building (MOB). GBBN (Cincinnati) was the architect on the project. For more on Mercy Health, go here. healthcare
février 2, 2024Like
11 Books About Heart Disease in Women That Could Save Your Life
If you purchase an independently reviewed product or service through a link on our website, SheKnows may receive an affiliate commission. More than 60 million women in the United States have some form of heart disease, according to the CDC — but only a little more than half of women realize it’s “their number one killer.” The most common form of heart disease, and the leading cause of death for women, is coronary artery disease, caused by plaque in the shek
février 2, 2024Like
A Patient’s Journey: How to Navigate Health Insurance for Heart Disease
February 2, 2024, is National Wear Red Day and February is AmericanHeart Month. For the more than 60 million women in the United States living with some type of heart disease, navigating health insurance coverage can be overwhelming. A patient’s journey with heart disease should move seamlessly from diagnosis to treatment, with a strong partnership between the patient and their healthcare provider (HCP). Too often, the HCP’s recommendations must first make it through complicated hurdles put in place by the Healthy
février 1, 2024Like
Study Looks At Impact of Family-Friendly Design On Dying Patients
Including comfortable and functional space for visitors to gather in a hospital patient room is a priority for many design teams, but actual evidence about the effects of these efforts, a new study posits, is hard to come by. Researchers in Denmark sought to address this gap in the study “The Impact of a Family-Friendly Hospital: A Patient Perspective,” published in Health Environments Research & Design (HERD) Journal. The study, authored by Dorte Buchwald, Ditte Buchwald, and Dorte Melgaard of healthcare
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For Emma Stone, Anxiety Is ‘A Kind of Superpower’ — Here’s the Powerful Reason Why
Emma Stone has long used her platform to raise awareness and speak openly about mental health issues, including the debilitating anxiety she suffered from as a child. The Oscar-winning actor started having panic attacks at age 7, and while acting and therapy helped her manage the condition, she still experiences symptoms to this day. In a new interview with NPR on Thursday, the Poor Things actress revealed the roots of her childhood anxiety — and why she now sees it shek