Archive for the ‘Women's Health - General’ Category

The Women’s Center is coming to Winter Park!

Thursday, May 20th, 2010

Coming Soon….

The Women’s Center is glad to announce its fifth location to open up in Winter Park. Our staff is excited and we hope you are too! For those of you that would like to join us out there, we will be located at  6001 Brick Court, Suite 121 Winter Park, FL 32792. The Women’s Center Winter Park office will be opening its doors in June 2010!

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Women’s Health Blog: AT&T’s Initiative to Support Healthy Pregnancy & Healthy Babies

Friday, February 5th, 2010

AT&T has launched a national program called "text4baby" as a free service for pregnant women. Through text messaging AT&T"s text4baby will  provide weekly tips to support pregnant women and also healthy babies.
 
This is an opt-in feature for expectant moms who have a wireless phone for receiving these text messages. Text messages will feature health tips based on the due date of the expectant mom. Expectant moms also receive medical guidance for the week of pregnancy they are in.
 
Others participating in the text4baby program are various wireless carriers, the Wireless Association and some device manufacturers.

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January is Cervical Health Month – Pap Smears Can Help Early Detection!

Saturday, January 2nd, 2010

Happy New Year. Hope everyone had a great holiday. January is Cervical Health Awareness month and according to the National Cervical Cancer Coalition (NCCC), a great way to raise awareness about pap smears for women. The NCCC states that in 2010, 11,000 new cases of cervical cancer will be diagnoses. Cervical Cancer is caused by the HPV or the Human Papilloma Virus which is sexually transmitted via skin-to-skin contact. HPV may also cause cancers of the mouth, next, anus, and head in both, men and women.
 
The good news though is that cervical cancer is a preventable cancer in women if detected early. A pap smear can identify the cells on the cervix that may have changed thus leading to the formation of cancer. Unfortunately a majority of the women who develop cervical cancer have never had a pap smear.
 
So if you’ve never had a pap smear, make a resolution that you’ll get one in 2010 and will continue to get regular pap smears for yourself. Encourage your wives, adult daughters and sisters, and mothers to get a pap smear regularly.
 

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Women’s Health Blog: Gestational Diabetes and Sugary Soft Drinks

Tuesday, December 22nd, 2009

Liwei Chen is a researcher at Louisiana State University and she recently published a paper in the Diabetes Care Journal which discusses the increased risk of gestational diabetes in women due to the intake of too many sugary drinks.

Chen's research found that women who drank about five sugary drinks per week were at increased risk for gestational diabetes than women who had didn't drink sugary drinks.

Gestational Diabetes is the development of diabetes in pregnant woman who did not have diabetes prior to their pregnancy.
 
So if you are pregnant, lay off those sugary soda's. They're bad for you AND the baby because when a woman develops gestational diabetes, the baby is also at risk for higher complications at and after birth.

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