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Hormone Help
Women going through menopause have used manufactured hormones to treat their symptoms for years, but as Seven's Lynn Martinez shows us, doctors are no
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Wall Street Journal: The Truth About Hormone Therapy
Mainstream medicine has been given a wake-up call on a matter critical to the health of 65 million women in the U.S.
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Vogue: Raging Hormones
With synthetic hormone replacement therapy under fire, are plant-based formulas are net big hope?
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Bioidentical Hormone Therapy for Menopause
You might have heard about bioidentical hormones. While they have a 'natural' claim, they're still steeped in controversy. Take the case of Marsee Israel was floored when menopause took off in her late 40's.
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New Guidelines For Mammography : A Reason For Celebration
Last week the US Preventive Services Task Force came out with new guidelines for mammography. Simply stated, the new guidelines recommend that:
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Alternative treatments: Parker Posey and Suzanne Somers seek other means to cure their diseases
Some 3,000 patients a month are seen at her program, Lee explains. They may make use of everything from acupuncture and ginger tea for nausea to acupuncture for dry mouth caused by chemotherapy.
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Breast Cancer Screening Debate
Dr. Erika Schwartz has treated patients with breast cancer yet she agrees with new recommendations to stop mammogram for women under 50 years old.
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Pharma Crisis: The Placebo Effect
Many new drugs are failing in late-stage trials because they can't beat out sugar pills. Dr. Erika Schwartz, and Steve Silberman, of Wired magazine
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Guidelines issued for fighting the flu
The Illinois Department of Public Health issued flu guidance to schools Friday, similar to that issued each school year and the beginning of each flu season.
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Bogged Down By Special Interest, Health Care Reform Becomes a Political Tool Instead of a People's Right
Prevention is a crucial element of healthcare reform. President Obama said that through prevention, Americans will become healthier and thus substantially reduce the costs of healthcare. He extolled the importance of training more primary care physicians, encouraging each and every one of us to take responsibility for getting and staying healthy and focusing on prevention.
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The Return of Swine flu
Australia is still battling Swine Flu as its winter Flu season comes to an end, and Americans are wondering if they'll be in store for a return of Swine Flu in the colder months ahead.
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Extra: Where to Buy Bioidentical Hormones
Dr. Erika’s Breakthrough interview on bioideintcial hormones
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Fox News: Industrialized Health-Care Mess
Dr. Erika Schwartz Bioidentical Hormone Expert www.drerika.com
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How To Prevent Suicide
Usually, as readers of www.thecheckoutline.org already know, we deal with the issues of either death — and how it affects us — or terminal illness...
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Back to School : Healthy Lunches & Playground Safety
The school nurse even called me at home one day to commend me on the lunches I packed for my kids. Sadly, not too many parents use common sense when packing lunches.
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Wyeth Used Ghostwriters - Video of the Premarin Horses
This is a follow up to the post last week with the judge ordering the unsealing of the documents involved in the case.
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