This federal act requires that all group health plans or individual insurance contracts that provide medical and surgical benefits must follow the federal guidelines below when one of their subscribers …
What is Osteoporosis? Osteoporosis is a disease that weakens bones. As this disease progresses, the bones may become so brittle they break even without an injury. These broken bones, or …
This federal act requires that all group health plans or individual insurance contracts that provide medical and surgical benefits must follow the federal guidelines below when one of their subscribers …
ACCORDING TO THE MARCH OF DIMES, THE BEST GIFT you can provide to your future baby is 9 months of a healthy pregnancy. There are some things you can do …
Pregnancy can be one of the most rewarding and healthiest experiences in a woman’s life, both mentally and physically. A pregnant woman glows with vitality and life and can transfer …
Osteoporosis is a disease of the bones. Over time, bones can become brittle and porous and break easily, sometimes from only minor injury. Eight million American women and two million …
WHAT ARE STDS? HOW DO YOU GET THEM? STDs (sexually transmitted diseases) are conditions acquired or spread through activities involving intimate bodily contact with an infected person. Activities which involve …
What are peri-menopause and menopause? Peri-menopause is the transitional time period before menopause occurs, when a woman still gets her period, but starts to experience changes in her menstrual cycle …
Pregnancy is a time of joy and great anticipation for most expectant families. However, that happiness and tremendous hope for the future can suddenly be halted by the diagnosis of …
Whether you experience urge incontinence or stress incontinence, Kegel exercises – performed correctly – can offer relief. By strengthening the muscles that hold urine in the bladder, you can either …
Group health plans and health insurance issuers generally may not, under federal law, restrict benefits for any hospital length of stay in connection with childbirth for the mother or newborn …
Music, we’re told, can soothe the savage breast. Data about breasts, in contrast, can ignite rather savage controversy, and propagate confusion. That seems to be the immediate result of a …
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) says almost half of all pregnancies in the U.S. are not planned. That’s important because unplanned pregnancies can be risky for both …
