Updated Zika Blog-Can I go to Mexico on Spring Break? ………….The Zika Virus

by Dr. Janet Matuszek

Well, a new virus is among us. This one is called the Zika Virus and it is transmitted by a certain type of mosquito. If you are infected, the most common symptoms are fever, rash, joint pain and conjunctivitis (red eyes). Headaches and muscle pain are also symptoms you could have. A rarer disorder is Guillain-Barre’ (which is a rare neurological condition where your body attacks your nervous system. You start feeling weakness and tingling in your ...

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Stay safe in the sun because Melanoma is no fun

by Dr. Kelly Ott

Researchers estimate that nearly one-third of cases of melanoma, the most serious form of skin cancer, are diagnosed in women during their childbearing years. Since many women now are delaying pregnancy until their 30s or 40s, coupled with the fact that melanoma is the most common form of cancer for young adults 25-29 years old, more women could be faced with developing melanoma before or during pregnancy.

Per the Mayo Clinic, the definition of melanoma, the ...

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Bye, bye UTI

by Angie Warner WHNP

It’s 3 am and you’re waking up from a deep sleep with a sudden urgency to go pee.  As you stumble to the bathroom and sit on the toilet trying desperately to not wake up too much, you realize that although you have so much pressure and urgency to void, your bladder only allows a few dribbles to escape.  You make it back to bed to sleep until that dreaded alarm goes off only to ...

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Talc Powder and Ovarian Cancer…..Am I at risk???

by Dr. Janet Matuszek

Johnson and Johnson was just ordered this month to pay $72 million dollars to one family of a woman who died from ovarian cancer after years of using the company’s talcum products. What does that mean to me….am I at risk?

First, lets all put this into perspective. Just because a jury found a company liable, does not mean that there is an association. Look at breast implants. Silicone breast implant company, Dow Corning, had to file bankruptcy ...

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Are the latest trends causing you and your Gyno to become best friends? From topics of “Althlesiure Wear” to… “Have Hair or Go Bare?”

by Angie Warner WHNP

While we at WCS are happy to support women involved in an active lifestyle and encourage daily exercise, we are no fools to believe that every female we see at school, walking in the stores and at hanging out at the bus stops in their yoga pants are on their way to or from the gym.  In fact yoga pants and leggings have become such a staple in women’s fashion that they have coined a new category ...

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Are you Dense??? New approach to mammogram interpretation as of 1/1/15

Are you Dense Advocacy, Inc is an organization founded on the efforts to inform each individual patient about her own breast density and the potential limitations of mammogram alone.

This organization advocates for State and Federal legislation to standardize the classification of density in breast tissue and to communicate the risk of density to women to improve early detection.

Missouri is the 17th state to enact into legislation a bill (Senate Bill No. 639) that will ...

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Revisiting the Flu vaccine in pregnancy (post from 2013)

From the moment you get that positive pregnancy test your life changes completely. All of the sudden you are now responsible for another human being. You make changes to your diet, activity, lifestyle, and your home. Immediately there is an overwhelming urge to protect this precious miracle.
If you were able to shield your unborn baby from terrible illnesses like the flu, wouldn’t you. Now you can…
The most effective way to protect yourself ...

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WHAT???… NO PELVIC EXAM??????- —-Not so fast! Trying to clear up the confusion for women

It can be very difficult to decipher between what we should and should not do with our healthcare these days.  Guidelines and recommendations are constantly changing in medicine and leading to a lot of confusion for everyone.

Over the past 3 years there has been a lot of discussion on when and how often pap smears should be performed.  Current recommendations are to start pap smears at age 21.   Frequency of screening is based on personal history and results.

Now there are ...

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Happy National Women’s Health Week- May 11-17, 2014

Mother’s day is more than just celebrating the woman that has been there for you, loving you, supporting you and encouraging you day after day. It is also the kick off for National Women’s Health Week each year.

What a great time to be reminded of the importance of preventive care for women so that our moms are here on this earth with us as long as possible and that those of us that are moms ourselves ...

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To Squeeze or Not to Squeeze…That is the question. Update on Mammogram Recommendations

There has been a lot of discussion in the past about when to start screening mammograms and the frequency in which to have them done.  Most of the controversy stemmed from a 25-year follow-up of a Canadian study done to determine if screening mammogram is actually able to identify breast cancer better that Clinical Breast Exams (CBE- a breast exam done by a trained health care professional). The study included almost 90,000 women aged 40-69 years old from ...

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Teenage Smoking… What a Drag!

Despite the intense campaigning to elimate cigarette smoking and second-hand smoke exposure, approximately 1 in 4 teens in the US are picking up the habit. 

Most of us are aware that tobacco use leads to lung disease, multiple types of cancer, heart disease and death, to name a few.  In fact smokers are likely to die 13-14 years sooner than non smoker are. However, in a recent study published in the Journal for Nurse Practitioners, teen awareness ...

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It’s Getting Hot in Here… Can’t Take Off All My Clothes- Menopausal symptoms and Hormone Replacement Therapy Advice.

Menopause is defined as having no bleeding for one full year and can occur anytime in a women’s 40s-50s. The average age of menopause is 51years old. Menopause is a naturally occurring phase at the cessation of a woman’s reproductive years. 

Peri-menopause can start as early as 10 years prior to menopause occurring.  It is during this time that most women experience undesirable symptoms and seek medical advice to address their concerns.  Peri-menopausal symptoms can include the ...

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