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Why Diversity in Clinical Trials Is Important
By harming people of color and women more than other groups, the Covid-19 pandemic exposed a cruel reality: Factors such as gender, race and income can greatly affect access to healthcare, rates of disease, overall health and even life expectancy. A key to reducing such health disparities is making sure to include diverse groups of people in clinical research. Understanding the effects of treatments on diverse populations is needed to ensure that everyone has access to high-quality, safe and effective Healthy
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$15.1M Vision Park MOB Welcomes Tenants In Texas
Owner and developer Pisula Development Company (The Woodlands, Texas) has completed move in for the $15.1 million Vision Park medical office building (MOB) in Shenandoah, Texas. Situated on approximately 3 acres, the 56,100-square-foot MOB has three floors for primary care, special surgery, cardiovascular, and plastic surgery services as well as on-site parking. The project team includes LA Architects (Burbank, Calif.), Arch-Con Corporation (Houston), and Pinecroft Realty (Spring, Texas). The post $15.1M Vision Park MOB Welcomes Tenants In Texas first appeared healthcare
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Can Living in the U.S. Increase Your Risk of Preterm Birth?
If you’re a woman giving birth in the United States, you’re more likely to have a preterm delivery than women in most developed nations. If you’re Black or Native American, the chances of experiencing preterm birth are even higher, along with the risk of dying from pregnancy-related causes. In 2021, a little over one in 10 babies born in the United States were born preterm, meaning before the 37th week of pregnancy. While that rate of preterm births in the Healthy
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The Issue with Queer Sex Education? We Don’t Have Enough of It
Welcome to Better Sex With Dr. Lexx, a monthly column where sex therapist, educator and consultant Dr. Lexx Brown-James shares expertise, advice and wisdom about sex, relationships and more. Approaching education about sex as a life-long endeavor — “from womb to tomb” — Dr. Lexx (AKA The #CouplesClinician) is your guide to the shame-free, medically accurate, inclusive and comprehensive conversations for you, your partner and your whole family. In all my years of being a sexuality professional, I have never heard parents say: shek
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Conversación sobre la salud: Preguntas que deberías hacer a tu HCP [Proveedor de servicios médicos] sobre el cáncer endometrial
El conocimiento es poder en lo que se refiere al cáncer endometrial, el cual se da en la mucosa del útero. Aprender las señales y síntomas puede ser útil para que actúes lo más pronto posible para detectar el cáncer endometrial en forma temprana, cuando podría ser más tratable. Para eso, nos comunicamos con Shawana Moore, DNP, CRNP, WHNP-BC, enfermera practicante y profesora adjunta de Thomas Jefferson University, para que nos ayude a entender de mejor forma esta condición. ¿Cuál Healthy
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Doctors Overlooked My Endometrial Cancer Symptoms for More Than a Year
As told to Nicole Audrey Spector My menstrual cycle was never regular. My periods were always too long, too short, too heavy, too frequent. There were times when it worried me, but after years of normal Pap tests, a healthy pregnancy, and unfazed doctors who said it was all hormonal or linked to my well-managed hypothyroidism, I figured that was just the way I was built. But I knew something was wrong in March 2020 when my menstrual bleeding became Healthy
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Why Are Black Women More Likely to Die From Endometrial Cancer?
In 2012, Adrienne Moore noticed her menstrual cycles were changing. Her periods were becoming irregular, and they came with heavy bleeding and significant cramping when they did arrive. Healthcare providers diagnosed cysts, fibroids and even early menopause, but Moore said no one presented a treatment plan that worked. For the next four years, Moore searched for answers. She wondered if her condition was related to the ovarian cancer she survived in 2003, but the providers she visited didn’t investigate further. Healthy
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Roper St. Francis Healthcare To Relocate Hospital In South Carolina
Roper St. Francis Healthcare (Charleston, S.C.) plans to relocate its Roper Hospital from its original site on the Charleston peninsula, where it’s been located since 1856, to a former city hall building in North Charleston, according to the website postandcourier.com. The nonprofit organization recently purchased the building for $9.2 million. The new hospital will be designed with resilient design features to withstand flooding, hurricanes, and earthquakes. The post Roper St. Francis Healthcare To Relocate Hospital In South Carolina first appeared healthcare
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Food And Mood: Understanding The Diet-Brain Connection
The study of the diet-brain connection can also be referred to as the gut-brain connection, food and mood, and nutritional psychiatry. As the title suggests, it means that what we eat can have direct impacts on our brains which ultimately reflects the level of our moods as well. Accordingly, when we eat highly nutritious food in the right way, it not only nourishes us but also helps in improving our mood. When we intake a well-nourished meal consisting of minerals, calmsage
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How to support a mythomaniac relative
Do you know someone who is prone to exaggeration? Or perhaps their version of events strays into all-out fantasy? If someone you care for demonstrates pathological lying, they might be experiencing mythomania – but getting support is a real possibility Loving someone who frequently alternates reality at their convenience is a difficult task, and requires infinite amounts of patience. Especially if that person is undiagnosed, and you have no idea how to act or combat their tendency to compulsively lie. happi
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What is worthsplaining (and how can we stop)?
Feel the need to over-explain your actions and justify why you’ve done something? You could be worthsplaining Picture the scene. You’re at work and decide to go out to a restaurant for lunch. When you tell your coworkers your plan, you make sure they know this is a ‘treat’ and that you’ve saved money somewhere else this week, which is why you can afford it. Or perhaps you’ve been invited out for a drink but all you really want is happi
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What Is The Tend-And-Befriend Response To Stress? (With Examples)
When you’re in danger, the first response is to either fight it off or flee the scene to protect yourself, and I mean, it’s the instinct that drives our reaction of flight-or-fight, but did you know that there’s another overlooked stress response called the tend-and-befriend response? The fight-or-flight stress response is the response that causes us to either challenge the danger or flee from the stressor. This stress response has been responsible for our survival for centuries, but we’ve overlooked another calmsage