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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.

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?

It might be the scariest moment for a parent – when their baby stops breathing.

Professionals at stony Brok Children’s Hospital show you what to do when the unthikable happens.

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.

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.

Hot flashes are an uncomfortable but potential sign that a person may be in perimenopause, which is the menopausal transition, or has reached menopause, which occurs after they haven’t had a period for one year.

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.

A survey study of more than 192,000 people across the nation released Wednesday found an association between greater levels of depression and social isolation during the COVID-19 shutdown, a finding that local mental health experts said was not surprising.

If you get sick with COVID and are eligible to take Paxlovid, the antiviral medication will likely help you avoid severe disease. However, once you start feeling better, there is a risk that you may start to feel COVID symptoms again before you’re fully recovered. This is a phenomenon known as Paxlovid rebound.

First of all, don’t panic. The risk of Paxlovid rebound is not a reason to not take Paxlovid. We’ve asked our infectious disease experts about everything you need to know about this phenomenon, and what to do if it happens to you.

Gov. Kathy Hochul urged New Yorkers last week to get the new Covid vaccine when it is available, and this week the latest vaccines from Moderna and Pfizer-BioNTech, tailored to target the dominant Covid-19 variant, are being delivered to pharmacies and physicians’ offices.

The federal Food and Drug Administration approved the new vaccine last week, and the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention recommends that anyone 6 months and older receive it…