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This Common Abortion Pill Is Going to the Supreme Court — Here’s What You Need to Know
The major issue in the attack on abortion rights may be coming to a head. Today, the Supreme Court agreed to hear arguments on mifepristone, one of two pills used in medication abortions, in a case that could have a massive impact on how patients access this essential medication. The legal challenge to mifepristone comes from the Alliance Defending Freedom, an organization that the Southern Poverty Law Center calls a “designated hate group,” on behalf of four anti-artion organizations in shek
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Menopause Isn’t the End, It’s a Beginning: An Empty Nest, More ‘Me Time’ & Other Ways I’m Thriving
This content was created in collaboration with Versalie, a one-stop-shop for your menopause needs — offering personalized menopause information, curated products, and access to telehealth. Me and my fellow 50-something friends have a lot of running jokes about hoping and praying for menopause. That’s because the whole bloody lead up to it — and I do mean bloody for several of my friends — is such a physical and emotional pain that the idea of getting out of perimenopause and to the menopause shek
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Oprah Started Using a Weight-Loss Medication After She ‘Released the Shame’
Oprah Winfrey has been body-shamed for decades over her weight. As the media mogul herself puts it in a new People cover story, “it was public sport to make fun of me for 25 years.” But as bad as the tabloids were, Winfrey said the worst part was that “I blamed and shamed myself.” Now, Winfrey’s approach to her body, her health, and her weight focuses on blocking out the pressure and voices, external and internal, including the ones telling shek
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Menopause Hormone Therapy Does Not Raise Your Risk of Breast Cancer. Here’s Why This Myth Persists
Roughly one-third of a woman’s life is spent in menopause, and the transition can often include life-disrupting symptoms such as hot flashes, night sweats, insomnia, and mental health issues. For women suffering from menopause symptoms, hormone therapy (HT) is the most effective way to provide relief. And while once a commonly prescribed treatment in the United States, hormone therapy became a controversial subject seemingly overnight in 2002, after one study in the Women’s Health Initiative (WHI) linked the therapy to shek
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MetroHealth Adds Helipad To Critical Care Pavilion In Cleveland
MetroHealth (Cleveland) celebrated the opening of a new helipad on the roof of MetroHealth’s critical care pavilion. The structure is part of the organization’s $1 billion transformation of the main campus in Cleveland’s Clark-Fulton neighborhood. The helipad features technologies that automatically remove snow and ice and is engineered to reduce the impact of noise and vibration for patients and caregivers inside the hospital. It also provides quick access to the pavilion’s emergency department, trauma bays, and operating rooms. The healthcare healthcare
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Asking for a Friend: Nitika Chopra on Psoriasis & How to Help Someone with Chronic Illness
In our latest installment of Asking for a Friend, we spoke to Flow Advisory Council member Nitika Chopra, a chronic illness advocate and founder of Chronicon, about how to best show up for the loved ones in your life suffering from a chronic illness. Chopra was diagnosed with psoriasis at age 10 and developed psoriatic arthritis roughly a decade later, so speaks from firsthand experience of what it’s like to be on the receiving end. “Psoriasis is a skin condition, shek
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The Universidad De Los Andes Medical Campus Plans Patient Tower In Santiago, Chile
Universidad de Los Andes a private catholic-inspired higher-learning institution dedicated to nonprofit education, research, and assistance activities, is expanding its campus in Santiago, Chile. The project, which is slated for completion between 2027-2030, will add a five-story, 150,000-square-foot patient tower, designed with earthquake-resilient features. The tower will house two 24-bed patient floors, a floor for exam/consultations that can flex to inpatient functions in the future, outpatient surgery suite, and support services. National architecture firm Shepley Bulfinch (Boston) will design the healthcare
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‘We Went In Knowing the Worst-case Scenario Was Likely to Happen:’ Two-time Olympian Tianna Madison Details Her Harrowing Birth Story
Tianna Bartoletta (née Madison), a two-time Olympian with three gold medals, didn’t always want to be a mother. She knew from the beginning that pregnancy and childbirth could be dangerous, especially for Black women. “It was not something I wanted to put myself through,” she said. Fast forward, and imagine her surprise when she discovered she was pregnant, shortly after competing in the Olympic trials for the 2020 Tokyo Olympics. After finding out she was pregnant, she and her partner shek
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Oprah Reveals the Daily Gratitude Practice That Helps Her ‘Feel the Abundance’ of Life
When you hear people talking about “practicing gratitude,” you might picture long journaling sessions or silent meditations: introspective, deep, self-reflective, and honestly — as awesome as journaling and meditating are — more than a little bit intimidating. There’s definitely a stereotype around how you *should* practice gratitude, and it can scare away those of us who don’t have the time or energy for 30 minutes of journaling every morning. But turns out, there’s really no single way to practice gratitude shek
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Walter Jones Of MetroHealth, Parkland Dies At 69
Architect Walter B. Jones Jr. of Middleburg Heights, Ohio, passed away on Dec. 5 at the age of 69 after a battle with cancer. Throughout his three-plus decades as an architect and project manager, Jones led several major projects at healthcare organizations, championing new strategies and leaving a lasting impact on the healthcare design industry. MetroHealth, Parkland career milestones Most recently, in 2014, he was hired as senior vice president of campus transformation at Cleveland’s The MetroHealth System . In healthcare
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Understanding Arithmophobia (Fear Of Numbers): Symptoms, Causes, Treatment, Self-Help, And More
Can people develop a fear of numbers? Well, yes, not all numbers, certain numbers can have an impact on someone’s life. For some people, number 5 can be a lucky one while for others it can be fearful. Such a type of fear of numbers is called arithmophobia or numerophobia in psychology. This type of specific fear can have negative impacts on the overall well-being of people. People struggling with arithmophobia are not able to hold on to a job, calmsage
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Deadly But Serious: What is Silent Anger And How to Deal With It
We’re no stranger to anger. The emotion is the same, but the way it manifests might be different. Some call it frustration, some as violent as a volcano, but it does exist. Usually, when I say picture anger, you might imagine the red-clothed character from Inside Out; yes, that’s the one. But what many might not realize is that anger can be subtle and silent but as deadly as aggressive anger. This type of anger is called silent anger or calmsage