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  • Broken Hip: Here’s What Rehab Looks Like

    A broken hip can be life-altering, and putting in the work with a physical therapist and on your own will play a role in how well – and quickly – you recover.

  • 9 Ways Your Partner Can Help with Labor

     

  • Urgent or Emergency? When You Should Head to the ER

    The emergency room is open 24 hours a day, seven days a week ­­— even if no one ever wants to go there. But if the time does come when you need emergency help, how do you know what is really an emergency and what can be resolved with a simple trip to an urgent care clinic?

  • Use Your Freezer To Improve Your Diet (and Save Money)

     

  • What You Can Do to Avoid Cervical Cancer

    Here’s a sobering statistic: Cervical cancer is the fourth-most frequent cancer in women worldwide with an estimated 570,000 new cases in 2018 (or 6.6% of all female cancers).

  • Why Don’t I Want to Have Sex?

    Women can have a lower sex drive than men because we have lower testosterone levels. This can affect everything from sex drive to the blood flow to sexual organs to the quality of orgasms. Simply put, this difference in levels even can affect our need to have sex.

  • Six Ways to Cope with Your COVID-19 Grief

    Every time we experience a loss — a job, a loved one, even a sense of normalcy — we also can experience a type of grief. COVID-19 has caused many of us to experience different types of losses, as we understand life will not be the same once it passes. With so much uncertainty present, it may delay our ability to cope. The current situation can be seen as a boot camp for life post COVID-19, however. The choices you make now can have  a significant effect on your long-term goals and who you are becoming.  

  • Skip the Brie — and Other Holiday Food Advice for Cancer Patients

    Food safety is of the utmost importance for anyone with a compromised or recovering immune system. But the holidays can pose extra challenges for cancer patients struggling with smell and taste aversions caused by treatment-related side effects. For patients, caregivers and friends, this can threaten to put a damper on festivities. However, some tips and strategies can make navigating the holiday table easier — and more joyful — for those gathered.

  • How Much Sleep Does My Baby Need?

    It’s 2:00 am, your newborn is crying again and you’re tiredly asking yourself, “But why won’t he just sleep awhile longer?” Getting a newborn on any kind of a sleeping schedule just isn’t going to happen, and for one very good reason — babies less than three months old are frequently waking for feeds and sleeping up to 17 hours a day. For the first three months, new parents must remind themselves that, for the time being, you’re in survival mode. 

  • What to Buy for Your Hurricane Food Kit

    The arrival of hurricane season brings with it the annual reminder to prepare in advance. Fortunately, many resources exist to help guide decisions for purchasing supplies in preparation for a potential emergency. Planning for food is an essential part of hurricane preparedness.