Women’s Health

(Originally posted on November 24, 2015) Many women keep an active lifestyle during pregnancy, only slowing down as needed to compensate for their size and level of energy.  Other women still perceive pregnancy as a tender state that calls for sedentary, protective inactivity because of fear...

February 13, 2019 Update: Lauren MacIvor Thompson, a history lecturer at Georgia State University, and Samira K. Mehta, an assistant professor of religious studies at Albright College, write in a perspective piece for the Washington Post (2/7) that “many common brands of birth control instruct women...

We often counsel patients about their rights, robbed away by abusive relationships with a family member, a partner, a work associate, etc.  The most tender situation is when the woman suffered abuse by a family member, especially when she was a young and impressionable, and...

Maintaining an exercise program as a lifestyle is not easy despite its proven importance and health benefits.  As one ages, the call for exercising is often based on preventing on battling medical breakdowns.  The good news is that, even if starting later on in years,...

The American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists (ACOG) just released new recommendations for breastfeeding and you can read them here: ACOG breastfeeding Main points: Although most women in the United States initiate breastfeeding, more than one half wean earlier than they desire. The American College of...