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How To Prepare Your Daughter for Her First GYN Visit

Do Weight-loss Drugs Cause Unplanned Pregnancies?

You’re watching social media videos, say, and see formerly overweight women crooning about how they got pregnant thanks to weight-loss drugs.

Need a New Hip or Knee Joint? Don’t Sweat It

Understanding Prediabetes: Your Chance To Prevent Type 2 Diabetes

Dealing With Loss: There’s No Wrong Way To Grieve

When it comes to grieving, there is no such thing as a wrong way to do it.

How To Help Your Sensitive Child Thrive

If your child seems to cry more than usual, even over seemingly minor issues, they may be wired genetically to be extra sensitive. Highly sensitive children are more responsive to their environment, intensely perceptive and can get overwhelmed easily. Parenting your highly sensitive child is different than parenting other children, and it begins with seeing this sensitivity as a gift.

Childhood Vaccinations: Everything You Need To Know

Vaccines help keep your child healthy and safe from serious diseases. They also protect your family and keep your community healthier for everyone. This is especially true for the frailest among us, such as babies, sick kids and adults, and the elderly.

You Have a Cold. Should You Exercise?

Regular exercise is one of the most important things you can do to stay healthy and strengthen your immune system, so you can ward off most viral and bacterial infections.

Over 50? Get the Vaccine To Avoid Painful Shingles

Shingles is a rash that develops, and then blisters, in a band along one or more nerves in your body. It can be exquisitely painful, and its after-effects might cause discomfort for the rest of your life. If you haven’t gotten the shingles vaccine yet, what are you waiting for?

What You Should Know About Isolated Systolic Hypertension

There is a type of blood pressure that can be a significant threat to your health, but you might not have ever heard of it. And if you’re older, you’re at greater risk.