Archive for October, 2009
Healthy Start Becoming a parent is a major commitment filled with many challenges, and rewards. Pregnancy can be an exciting, fulfilling, delightful time. It can also be a time of uncertainty and change. Many aspects of pregnancy are part of the natural process over which you have no control. However, you can control many important… Read More
Sunday, October 25th, 2009 Tags: asthma, becoming a parent, blood pressure, delightful time, diet exercise, different, family histories, genetic screening, health immunization, Healthy Start, hypertension, hypothyroidism, important decisions, important factors, labor, measles, medical, medical conditions, medical histories, menstrual period, obstetrical, obstetrical care, optimal time, pregnancy conditions, prenatal care, tay sachs disease, time questions, women
Category: News & Education 2 Comments 
Before and After Menopause The average age of menopause, the cessation of menstruation caused by failure of the ovaries to secrete estrogen, is 51 years of age for women in the United States. Menopause will occur between the ages of 45 and 55 for the majority of women. The time between the onset of irregular… Read More
Sunday, October 25th, 2009 Tags: age of menopause, cessation, difficulty sleeping, estrogen, fluctuation, Health Initiative, hormone level, hormone replacement, hot flashes, irregular menses, irritability, median age, memory loss, menstrual cycle, mood swings, ovaries, ovary, perimenopausal period, perimenopause, pituitary gland, progesterone, secretion, symptoms, transition period, United States, woman, women
Category: Menopause, News & Education No Comments
Hysterectomy Hysterectomy is the most common nonobstetric major surgical procedure performed in the U.S. with over 670,000 performed annually. Today, in the U.S. over 75% of these surgeries are performed by an open abdominal approach. It has been well documented and is the American College of Obstetrics and Gynecology opinion that the majority of hysterectomies… Read More
Sunday, October 25th, 2009 Tags: abdominal approach, american college of obstetrics, benefit, cesarean section, doctors, enlarged uterus, Fibroids, graduates, Hysterectomy, laparoscopic hysterectomies, Laparoscopic Hysterectomy, laparoscopic supracervical hysterectomy, lash, learning, medicine, overwhelming majority, physicians, proponents, reconstructive surgeons, reconstructive surgery, sexual, sexual function, surgeries, vaginal hysterectomies, vaginal hysterectomy, vaginal prolapse, vaginal surgery
Category: Hysterectomies, News & Education, Services 1Comment
