Welcome Century Health [Infographic]
Welcome Century Health [Infographic] Ever wonder what life was like 100 years ago? Taking a look at the quality of people’s health in the 20th century may renew your appreciate for life. In 1900, the life expectancy for women was 48 and for men it was 46. Today, women can expect to live to 80 […]
Access To Healthcare Infographic
Access To Healthcare Infographic This Visualizing Health Policy infographic provides a snapshot of men’s health care and insurance coverage issues, including health status, access to care and use of services. It compares the uninsured rates of men and women, their cost barrierso tcare, their connection to clinicians, and their use of prescription drugs, screening, and counseling […]
How Changing Your Breathing Can Change Your Life (INFOGRAPHIC)
How Changing Your Breathing Can Change Your Life (INFOGRAPHIC) The best way to calm down is so innate to our lives, we often take it for granted: Taking a breath. Focusing on your own breathing can have a significant impact on your well-being and stress levels, and can even create physiological changes like lowering your […]
The Changing Healthcare Landscape Infographic
Infographic: The Changing Healthcare Landscape While the growth of U.S. healthcare spending as a percent of GDP has slowed in recent years, healthcare costs are still increasing, while life expectancy rates are flattening, according to a new infographic by Deloitte. The infographic looks at how national healthcare expenditures are changing, trends among the newly insured […]
Consume Oral Methandrostenolone For Fast And Effective Results
Consume Oral Methandrostenolone For Fast And Effective Results Methandrostenolone, generally known as Dianabol, Averbol and dianabol. It is the popular anabolic steroid which is very much used by the athletes and the bodybuilders. This is taken in the oral form. In Germany Methandrostenolone was developed and it reaches US in the year 1960s. As soon […]
Dr. Wulf Utian Speaks Out on Hormone Therapy
It is never ever pleasant in the practice of medicine to live to see a health warning you issued become fact. In July 2002, right after the infamous press conference held by the NIH to announce the premature termination of the estrogen–progestogen arm of the Womens Health Initiative study (WHI) and warn women off taking […]
5 Foods You Thought Were Unhealthy But Aren’t
Food fads and facts come and go. Remember when fat-free foods were the answer to everything? It wasn’t too long before people began to learn that something else had to be added to make up for the loss of flavor caused by removing the fat. That something was sugar. There’s nothing like a little knowledge (and […]
Resources for Health Care Professionals
Welcome to HealthyWomen’s new For Professionals channel, where women like us who are health care providers can find industry news, information and printable patient-education resources. As a nurse practitioner (NP) I know all too well the time constraints associated with office visits. To be able to build on the foundation you’ve established in the exam […]
Words That Can Mislead You into Thinking Healthy
Do some of your New Year’s resolutions include eating healthier? Nothing wrong with that. But it pays to be not only educated, but also specific. Looking for wholesome and nourishing foods can be confusing. Food items with words like “healthy,” “natural” and “multigrain” might fill your shopping cart and make you feel virtuous, but the […]
Protect Yourself: Keeping Your Medication Usage Safe
Prescription medication usage is rising. Over the last 10 years, the percentage of Americans who took at least one prescription in the past month climbed from 44 percent to 48 percent, says the CDC. And there was a similar climb for people using two or more and five or more. The average American fills 12 […]
5 Tips to Liven Up a Tired Face
For the last month I have been completely entrenched in the process of moving. The chaos of this has left me running on a lot less sleep than normal. Add that lack of snoozing to my winter-pale skin and most mornings I don’t look like the liveliest of ladies. Luckily, however, I have a few tried and […]
Midlife Minute: A Surprising Health Benefit of Prunes
Prunes are good for more than just a well, you know. In fact, after you read why, you may never look at those dried out, wrinkled fruits (which are actually dried plums) in quite the same way again. Quick. Free association time: When you think about a prune, what’s the next thing that pops into […]