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  • How Pregnancy Can Affect Your Heart Health

    Pregnancy may be one of the more natural feats that can be accomplished by a woman’s body, but that doesn’t mean it comes without risk. Among the many stresses and strains is what happens with the cardiovascular system. The heart is forced to work overtime to deal with physical and hormonal changes, with blood volume increasing 20 to 50 percent. It’s important to understand and recognize warning signs to keep your heart protected and to reduce the risk of life-threatening complications. 

  • Can I Have Sex During Cancer Treatment?

    There’s a lot to think about when undergoing cancer treatment — appointments, medications, self-care — so sex and intimacy might not be a priority.

  • ‘I Was Just in the Wrong Place at the Wrong Time’

    As the emergency room doctors eased him to sleep, Carsten Kieffer was convinced he’d wake up the next morning without his right arm.

  • How Bone Marrow Transplants Save Lives

    Autologous transplant — uses your own healthy blood-forming cells harvested by doctors before chemotherapy and then reimplanted after treatment

  • Can I Have Sex During Cancer Treatment?

    There’s a lot to think about when undergoing cancer treatment — appointments, medications, self-care — so sex and intimacy might not be a priority. But a healthy, fulfilling physical and emotional connection during treatment can often aid in recovery. Emotional intimacy and physical touch have been shown to have healing effects, and feelings of love and support can be immensely important during illness.

  • How to Spot Early Signs of Alzheimer’s Disease

    Memory, judgment, reasoning and language skills are all important cognitive functions that falter when Alzheimer’s disease takes hold. Alzheimer’s is a form of degenerative dementia that eventually affects a person’s ability to function on their own. But how can we tell if a slip-up is just a natural mistake or an early sign of something bigger and more worrisome?

  • Recognizing the Signs of Drowning

    Drowning is the second-leading cause of injury-related deaths in children between 1 and 14 years old in the United States, and it is the third-leading cause of unintentional death worldwide.

  • Inflammatory Bowel Disease: Is It Ulcerative Colitis or Crohn's?

    An estimated 3 million Americans live with inflammatory bowel disease (IBD), and as many as 70,000 people are newly diagnosed in the United States each year.  Crohn’s disease and ulcerative colitis are the most common types of IBD — both conditions cause chronic inflammation in the gastrointestinal (GI) tract. What sets these two conditions apart?

  • 8 Fireworks Safety Tips for Independence Day

    Celebrating our country’s independence with fireworks on the Fourth of July is a well-established American tradition. But it’s not without risk — fireworks were involved with an estimated 10,000 injuries treated in U.S. hospital emergency departments in 2019. 

  • Coping with a Life-Changing Diagnosis