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Heart Disease and Stroke Awareness Seminar at Local Hospital

In America currently there are a number of illnesses and ailments that lead to the deaths of thousands of people very single year. You can probably name a number of them off of the top of your head right now. One particular issue sits at the top though and that would be the issue of heart disease.

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Breast Cancer: Why More Women Are Surviving It

About one in eight women will contract breast cancer during her lifetime.

The good news is that breast cancer deaths have been decreasing steadily for several decades, falling by 43% from 1989 through 2020, according to the American Cancer Society.

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Exploring the Benefits of Healthcare Data Analytics

Healthcare data analytics has become a game-changer in the healthcare industry, offering valuable insights and opportunities for improving patient outcomes, operational efficiency, cost-effectiveness, and overall quality of care.

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What’s the Difference Between an OB-GYN, a Midwife and a Doula?

One of the things to consider leading up to birth is your pregnancy care team. OB-GYNs, midwives and doulas are all care providers during pregnancy, birth and postpartum life, but they each have different qualifications and purposes.

Understanding the differences between these care providers can help you create the ideal team to care for you during pregnancy and into your parenthood journey.

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Why Diarrhea Can Be a Sign That Labor Is Approaching

Growing up, we often saw media portrayals of spontaneous labor beginning somewhere inconvenient with a person’s water breaking. This scenario is not how labor usually begins. Fewer than 15% of people go into labor with their water breaking.1 Another sign that labor could be imminent involves a different orifice (the anus) and isn’t talked about as much: Diarrhea.

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Can MS Affect Your Pregnancy?

Multiple sclerosis (MS) isn’t an equal opportunity illness—between two and three times as many women as men develop the autoimmune degenerative disease of the central nervous system. And it’s often diagnosed between the ages of 20 and 40, which are prime childbearing years. So it’s no surprise that women with MS who want to have kids may ask: Can I have children?

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