Family Health

Your Doctor Visit: Are You Getting Your Money’s Worth?

The most important part of staying healthy is getting the best advice from your physician and following it. This starts with your office visit. Hopefully, you have chosen a good physician who is interested, intelligent, communicates well, and follows up with you.

Women's Health

Vaccines to Prevent Cancer

To HPV or not to HPV, that is the question!

We have vaccines to prevent many types of infectious diseases, all of which have contributed significantly to the increased length of life of both men and women, up from 35 years in 1900 to 80 years in 2000. While vaccines have played a major role in not only our length of life, but in our quality of life, scientists have always dreamed of the magic bullet, a vaccine to prevent cancer.

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Choosing the Right Specialist for You: Taking Care of Chronic Diseases

Everyone will, in time, develop a chronic disease. Unfortunately, our body does not come with a money back guarantee, so we are stuck with the one that we have. This means that proper care and maintenance is an absolute "must have."

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The Right Doctor For You – When You’re Well

Do you really need a primary physician? Or, do you just go to an urgent care center or emergency room whenever you are feeling ill?

Everyone needs a good primary care physician, and needs one that is the right physician FOR YOU. The reasons are that only by trying to prevent diseases and screening for the early signs of illness can you be fairly certain that you won't suffer from a chronic illness. Screening tests can ascertain if you are at risk for a disease, that the right treatments are given, and the right lifestyle changes are made.

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Playing Poker Against Disease: Your Winning Hand

Sometimes when you have an illness, a condition, a chronic disease, or even a life-threatening problem, you feel like you're in a fight to win against problems that can become overwhelming. It is somewhat like playing poker against a very good card player. Can you ever win?

Family Health

Stage 1 Is the Cure

Everyone fears developing chronic diseases, but most people fear cancer more than any other illness, even AIDS, heart attack, stroke, or Alzheimer's disease. Since cancer strikes one out of every two men and one out of every three women, most people pay close attention to cancer news items, and discuss cancer with their doctor. But we all are afraid that the physician will find a suspicious lump or spot during our next appointment.

Women's Health

Screening for Breast Cancer—New Tests Available to You

Breast cancer will occur in one out of every eight women in the United States, with the odds increasing if a woman has other family members who have had breast cancer. Because many celebrities have had breast cancer and shared their experiences, people feel they have a lot of information about this disease, but you may have missed the most recent updates.

Women's Health

You Can Prevent Breast Cancer

Of all human diseases, cancer is the most feared. One out of every three women, and one out of two men will get cancer during their lifetime, and among women, the most common cancer is breast cancer. In fact, one out of every eight women born in the United States will have breast cancer at some point in her life.