May 29, 2015 Heels or Flats? Your Health May Depend On It You might have heard about the recent “flatgate” controversy, in which women not wearing high heels reportedly were barred from the red carpet at the Cannes Film Festival premiere of the new Cate Blanchett film, Carol.
Aug. 11, 2015 Use Mindful Eating to Change Your Relationship with Food Everywhere we turn, there’s another diet, pill or cleanse promising to help us lose weight—fast.
April 8, 2016 Food and Politics: Deciphering the 2015-2020 Dietary Guidelines Every five years Dietary Guidelines for Americans is created through collaboration between the departments of Health and Human Services and Agriculture.
June 8, 2016 What’s a Doula? A Professional Who Lowers Birth Costs and Improves Outcomes, that’s Who. Over the last few years, there has been more and more focus on the triple aim – improving patient experience, reducing costs, and improving population health.
July 29, 2016 Let’s Get Ahead of the Family Planning Curve in Arizona Unintended pregnancies, especially teen pregnancy and its social consequences, are a significant cause of inter-generational poverty and poor health outcomes.
Jan. 10, 2017 Good Oral Health is More than a Smile - Especially for Pregnant Women Good oral health is more than just a nice smile. Having good oral health improves a person’s ability to speak, smile, smell, taste, touch, chew and eat.
Feb. 27, 2017 Call Me: Using a Familiar Technology to Care for Cancer Patients at Home Caring for a loved one with a cancer diagnosis can influence every aspect of a family's quality of life.
April 15, 2017 Since You Can't Select Your Family, Choose a Risk-reducing Lifestyle As an African American woman, I am aware that I’m in one of the highest-risk groups for dying from heart disease but my non-inherited risk factors are manageable.
June 22, 2017 Targeting Lung Cancer: How Precision Medicine is Directing Cancer Therapy Today The field of precision medicine has been gaining steam over the past two years.
Nov. 18, 2017 Good Bugs, Bad Bugs: Exploring the Link between Cancer and Vaginal Bacteria Although one of the top 10 cancer types in the United States, a lot of people haven’t heard of endometrial cancer.