STD testing: What's right for you?
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Rochester, Minnesota - Sexually transmitted diseases are common, but the types of STD testing you need may vary by your risk factors. Find out what's recommended for you.
If you're sexually active, particularly with multiple partners, you've probably heard the following advice many times: Use protection and get tested.
Patient, provider and consumer groups implore Congress to appropriate CSR funds
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Washington, DC - 12 patient, provider and consumer groups released the following comments on President Trump’s announcement that he will discontinue the Affordable Care Act’s (ACA) cost-sharing reduction (CSR) payments:
New Recommendations on Language for Diabetes Care and Education Published in Consensus Report
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Arlington, Virginia - Diabetes is a complex disease that requires continuous daily care and relies on effective communication between care providers, educators and people with diabetes to achieve the best health outcomes. The language that healthcare professionals and others involved in diabetes treatment use to discuss the disease may impact both self-perception and treatment outcomes for people living with diabetes. A panel of experts from the American Diabetes Association (Association) and the American Association of Diabetes Educators (AADE) have published a Consensus Report to help guide the language used by healthcare providers to be positive, respectful, inclusive, person-centered and strengths-based, acknowledging the paradigm shift in diabetes care toward a collaborative approach that includes people with diabetes as the primary member of their care team.
Breast cancer prevention: How to reduce your risk
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Rochester, Minnesota - Breast cancer prevention starts with healthy habits - such as limiting alcohol and staying physically active. Understand what you can do to reduce your breast cancer risk. If you're concerned about breast cancer, you might be wondering if there are steps you can take toward breast cancer prevention. Some risk factors, such as family history, can't be changed. However, there are lifestyle changes you can make to lower your risk.
Healthy lifestyle reduces heart attack, stroke risk after gestational diabetes
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Washington, DC - Women who have had gestational diabetes may be able to reduce or even eliminate their risk for cardiovascular disease by following a healthy lifestyle in the years after giving birth, according to a study by researchers at the National Institutes of Health. The researchers analyzed data from the Nurses’ Health Study II (link is external), following health habits and medical history of more than 90,000 women from before pregnancy through middle age and the early senior years.
Immune response to ovarian cancer may predict survival
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Scottsdale, Arizona - A group of international cancer researchers led by investigators from Mayo Clinic and University of New South Wales Sydney has found that the level of a type of white blood cell, called tumor-infiltrating lymphocytes, present in the tumors of patients with high-grade ovarian cancer may predict a patient’s survival. Results of the study by the Ovarian Tumor Tissue Analysis Consortium were published today in JAMA Oncology.
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