Knowing everything there is to know about your body can be a woman’s lifelong quest. For now, consider just one aspect of your physiology – your breasts. Throughout your [...]
From time immemorial, women have been keepers of the heart. Nurturing and tending the hearts of loved ones is what women do. But when it comes to our own [...]
According to the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists, approximately four out of 10 women have problems with sex at some point during their lives. It can be uncomfortable [...]
Should a doctor’s gender factor into your healthcare decisions? Explore its impact on empathy, understanding and quality of care. MARC ROBERTZ-SCHWARTZ This is such a loaded debate, [...]
When relationship experts talk about the challenges of having a healthy marriage, one thing comes up again and again: that it takes ingenuity and effort to have a spouse [...]
Remember many years ago noticing that an inordinate number of women coming to me for cosmetic or reconstructive surgery were on some medication for anxiety, depression or both. Valium, [...]
How much medical information should you share with family? MARC ROBERTZ-SCHWARTZ I grew up in a household – and probably a generation – where there were a [...]
Motivated and Hopeful for the New Year You pulled it off! Every kid got what they wanted for Christmas. You were worried about hosting this year, because getting [...]
Fitness Pro Jaime Brenkus Teaches Boomers and Beginners How to Live Healthier Longer Exercise more. Eat better. Many of us try — and sometimes succeed — to fit [...]
Forming Healthier Habits One Day at a Time Whether you call them “resolutions” or “goals,” the changes you vow to make as the calendar rolls over to a [...]
Weight loss surgery: Is it an option for you? Being overweight or obese continues to be an issue for many people. According to the CDC’s National Health and [...]
Growing up in the Orlando area, Savannah Parvu navigated a merciless world overshadowed by her mother's crippling drug addiction. Savannah’s innocence was stolen at the tender age of 11 [...]
Richard “Doc” Greer finds hope amid a terminal diagnosis . . . twice. Seven years ago, Umatilla pharmacist Richard “Doc” Greer walked out of his cardiologist's office with [...]
Finding freedom from potent combination of alcohol and anger. It wasn’t enough to get a buzz. When Jimmy Strasser drank, he drank until he passed out. His first [...]
Overcoming a severe brain injury. I never saw it coming. The kick in the head that turned my life into “before” and “after” took me completely by surprise. I [...]