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Life Feels So Hard Perhaps the most common complaints of today's busy women are the feelings of fatigue, insomnia, weight gain and depression. Certainly these symptoms are connected to menopause, but many of the women...

Frederick R. Jelovsek MD "How does taking calcium supplements affect the calcium channel blocker I take for high blood pressure? I am a 48 yr old Native American woman. I really want to stop taking blood...

Background - importance and magnitude of problem Diagnostic goals - for overall category adrenal disease 21-hydroxylase deficiency 11á-hydroxylase deficiency 3á-hydroxysteroid dehydrogenase deficiency exogenous androgen/progestin ingestion maternal androgen secreting tumors true hermaphroditism sex chromosome abnormalities dysembryogenesis- ambiguity with...

Your Risk In this section, we are trying to answer the question: "am I at risk for....?" Risk assessment is a continually evolving subject with quite complex decisions. Included here are risk factors for different disease states....

(modified from Hystercity.com where you can find extensive pre and post op advice) Pre Admission To do list Clean House Do Laundry Prepare and Freeze Meals Make a list of questions for the Doctor and Anesthesiologist Get...

A chronic condition is a health condition that requires care and management for the entire life of the patient. A person can be born with a condition, or develop it over the course of...