Women Health Online

1. February, the month of love, is also American Heart Month. Heart Disease is the number one killer of women and cardiovascular disease (which includes a number of conditions affecting the heart) is the leading cause of death for both women and men. While the statistics are dire, there is hope! The ways to improve heart health are definitely doable.

   The top five ways to improve your heart health:
   

   #1. Lose Weight

   
   

   Being even moderately overweight can increase the risk for developing coronary heart disease as well as a variety of other heart-related illnesses.

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I loved the movie The Help for a variety of reasons, but one of the things that really touched me was every time Aibileen would tell the young girl she cared for, You is kind. You is smart. You is important. What a beautiful sentiment. Every kid is special and deserves to be reminded of what a remarkable person he or she isevery day.

Some people scoff at daily affirmations, thinking theyre just a bunch of nonsense, but if you think about how the human mind works, adult or child, it doesnt seem so silly. Our minds have two parts: the conscious and subconscious mind. The conscious mind is what we use to think through problems and use reason.

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A test that detects a particular protein in the blood (PAM4) correctly identified roughly two-thirds of patients with early-stage pancreatic cancer. These results were presented at the 2012 Gastrointestinal Cancers Symposium.

Pancreatic cancer is one of the deadliest forms of cancer. Each year, close to 44,000 people are diagnosed with pancreatic cancer in the United States and more than 37,000 die from the disease. The disease is often diagnosed at an advanced stage, and treatment of advanced disease remains challenging.

Currently, there are no screening tests that are able to accurately identify pancreatic cancer at an early, more-treatable stage.

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“Reading” books on my iPod is usually great. I can download them from audible, and while I’m tending to the daily monotony that comprises much of labwork (tissue culture, prepping protein samples, running back and forth between centrifuges), I can just pop in my earbuds and keep my brain engaged with something interesting. But never have I so regretted listening to rather than reading a book as I did with Public Parts by Jeff Jarvis.

Not because he’s a bad narrator – in fact he does better than many authors reading their own work (though he has the first audio typo I think I’ve ever heard…

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Like so many other high school players, Jenna Privette had told friends she would be skating for Jack Jablonksi when she took to the ice for Friday nights game. Now, they are both being hospitalized at the Hennepin County Medical Center.

According to her brother, Privette still has no feeling below her waist after being injured when her Minnehaha Academy team played the St. Paul Blades. Her family says Jenna was checked from behind, but from the cell phone video of the incident, it is hard to tell what happened.

Jake Privette says his sister is in significant pain. He says the only time he has seen her smile is when she was visited Sunday night by Leslie Jablonski, the mother of Jack Jablonski, the teen who was paralyzed in a game on Dec.

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