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BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA A PROCLAMATION To everyone celebrating Transgender Day of Visibility, I want you to know that your President sees you.  The First Lady, the Vice President, the Second Gentleman, and my entire Administration see you for who you are — made in the image of God and deserving of dignity, respect, and support.  On this day and every day, we recognize the resilience, strength, and joy of transgender, nonbinary, and gender nonconforming people.  We celebrate the activism and determination that have fueled the fight for transgender equality.  We acknowledge the adversity and discrimination that the transgender community continues to face across our Nation and around the world.      Visibility matters, and so many transgender, nonbinary, and gender nonconforming Americans are thriving.  Like never before, they are sharing thei...

UTICA — Dr. Jeanette Green has joined the Mohawk Valley Health System (MVHS) Women's Health Center and OB Care Center as OB/GYN.  Green received her doctorate of medicine with distinction in research from the University of South Florida, Tampa, Fla. She served her residency in obstetrics and gynecology at the George Washington University School of Medicine in Washington, D.C. Prior to joining MVHS, Green was a provider with Garnet Health in the Hudson Valley region of New York. She has more than two years of experience.  Green is accepting OB/GYN patients of all ages as needed. Her offices are located at the Women's Health Center, 2212 Genesee St., and the OB Care Center located at 1656 Champlin Ave. She can be reached at 315-801-8317.

[embedded content] What is a primary care provider? Is it important to have one? Stacey Blyth, MD, shares how having a primary care provider supports your well-being in this interview with WFMY News 2. What medical specialties and types of care professionals does primary care include? "It's a pretty good list! It's family practice, which is what I am, and then there's internal medicine, who covers just adults. Family practice does adults and kids. There's something called Med Peds, which is adults and kids again." "Then there's pediatricians, who depending on their practice, care for children up to roughly age 18. An OB/GYN will take care of women, especially in their reproductive years as primary care doctors. Those are the main ones. And they'll be both medical doctors (MD), doctors of osteopathy (DO), and then of course what we call APPs or physician assistants and nurse practitioners. They'll work with us in those roles to provid...

BOSTON , March 7, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Renovia Inc. ("Renovia"), a women-led company that develops digital therapeutics for female pelvic floor disorders, announced today that Capital Women's Care is recommending the leva ® Pelvic Health System to its patients who experience stress, mixed and mild to moderate urgency urinary incontinence (including overactive bladder). Capital Women's Care is the largest private OB/GYN practice in the mid-Atlantic with more than 200 providers across over 55 locations in Maryland , Virginia , and Washington DC . The latest data show that 62% of adult women in the U.S. experience urinary incontinence, which can have a negative impact on quality of life and contribute to other significant and potentially severe medical conditions. Numerous studies show Pelvic Floor Muscle Training (PFMT), commonly known as "Kegels," can help reduce the symptoms of UI by strengthening a woman's pelvic floor muscles. How...

Every year, it's the same: the sore throat, the dripping nose, the coughing. The common cold wreaks havoc, passing around a classroom, workplace or home, lingering and making everyone miserable. Advertising Policy Cleveland Clinic is a non-profit academic medical center. Advertising on our site helps support our mission. We do not endorse non-Cleveland Clinic products or services. Policy Treating a cold, though, can sometimes be confusing. From over-the-counter (OTC) medications to old home remedies passed down through the generations, everyone has a solution they think works like a charm. But what treatments are actually successful in treating a cold? To get to the bottom of it — and figure out those trustworthy options — we spoke with family medicine expert Neha Vyas, MD. Do any home remedies work for a cold? It's important to note that there's no outright cure for the common cold. There'...

[unable to retrieve full-text content] Women and young adults propel huge rise in use of anti-anxiety drugs    The Guardian There have been increases in prescribing anti-anxiety medications    Tech Explorist Prescriptions of anti-anxiety medication have risen sharply – study    Cumnock Chronicle Women twice as likely to be prescribed anti-anxiety drugs than men, study finds    The Independent Sharp increase in number of anti-anxiety drug prescriptions, study finds    Sky News View Full Coverage on Google News

Sen. Tim Scott, a rising star in the Republican Party with broad popularity in his home state of South Carolina, is getting showered with drug industry money before facing voters this fall. Scott was the top recipient of pharma campaign cash in Congress during the second half of 2021, receiving $99,000, KHN's Pharma Cash to Congress database shows, emerging as a new favorite of the industry. Though Scott has been a perennial recipient since arriving in Congress in 2011, the latest amount is nearly twice as much as his previous highest haul. Why Tim Scott? South Carolina's junior senator is someone widely viewed as destined for greater things during his political career. And this is an existential moment for the American pharmaceutical industry when securing allies is critical. Congress is under intense pressure to rein in the high prices of medicines in the U.S., which are often several times those in other developed countries. Roughly 1 in 4 adults report difficult...

National Women's Health and Fitness Day is celebrated every year on the last Wednesday of September, falling on September 28 this year. It's a special day to promote the importance of health awareness and fitness for all women. Though healthy living is important for both men and women, this day acknowledges that each gender has specific needs when it comes to health. History of National Women's Health And Fitness Day National Women's Health and Fitness Day is celebrated every year, courtesy of the Health Information Resource Center, a national clearinghouse for consumer health information professionals. The day was established in 2002 to promote physical fitness and health awareness among women of all ages. The history of women's health and fitness has been plagued by conjectures and superstition. Areas such as childbirth and physical fitness have been considered taboo in certain societies for centuries. In the past, certain practices that had been accepted as the n...

Spring is finally here, bringing with it plenty of showers, sunshine…and the usual seasonal skin allergies.  While adults of all ages can suffer from these skin allergies, normal age-related changes can make older adults more susceptible to dry skin, and therefore more vulnerable to skin allergies.  Dermatologist Dr. Cameron Harrison explained how our skin changes as we grow older:  "As we age, our skin loses our natural moisturizers that protect it from drying out," he said. "As a result, we lose that natural barrier between us and the elements."  This reduction in our natural protective barrier means it's easier for allergens to do what they do best: cause itchy red rashes.  Here are four common types of skin rashes to prepare for during the warmer months to come:  "Prickly heat" or heat rash This irritating condition looks like a sunburn but can occur without any sun exposure whatso...

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Losing stable access to secure, affordable housing is a danger 22-year-old Payton Byrne knows first-hand. "It doesn't matter who you are. The first time I was homeless I was 16 years old," she told Global News Monday. Byrne explained how, as a teenager living in a household struck by addiction, her family home became unsafe and she spent the next weeks in and out of the homes of several friends ⁠— some of whom were dealing with unsafe living environments themselves. "I don't know a family who isn't affected by addiction, my family included. I'm just lucky that alcohol isn't as dangerous as other drugs. But I was homeless as a privileged, white woman. Houselessness can really happen anywhere." The urgent, unpredictable nature of housing insecurity, along with comments made by Social Services Minister Lori Carr last week, are why she and several other advocates spent last weekend putting up posters encouraging all in need of shelter to contact Ca...

People who regularly see primary care physicians tend to live longer and healthier lives – if they can locate and secure doctors near home, Michigan doctors said. Despite the necessity of such practitioners, who handle patients from birth to death, from newborns to grandparents, there are too few of them and trends suggest there will be even fewer as current practitioners age and medical students with six-figure loan debts chose more lucrative specialties. Nearly 3 million people live in parts of the state with an inadequate population-to-provider ratio, according to the Kaiser Family Foundation, which cited 2021 data from the U.S. Health Resources and Services Administration. The problems are especially stark in rural regions and urban centers. "If we don't address the shortage that we are experiencing here in Michigan, it's going to get worse," Dr. Jennifer Aloff, a Midland family physician who works in private practice, told reporters Monday, March 21, the start of...

7,050 deaths in the state have been attributed to the virus SANTA FE – The New Mexico Department of Health (NMDOH) continues to urge people to seek vaccines and boosters as the two-year anniversary of the first COVID-19 cases reported in New Mexico is observed this week. Two years into the global pandemic that has taken the lives of millions, more than 7,000 COVID-19 deaths have been recorded in New Mexico, and the number continues to climb. In observance of the solemn anniversary, NMDOH wishes to pay homage to all those whose lives were cut short or devastated by the virus, as well as those who sacrificed so much during the pandemic. Each of the 7,050 lives lost were unique and irreplaceable to their loved ones, and the void left behind can never be filled. Many more New Mexicans stepped up, sacrificed, and looked out for one another as we weathered this storm together. "As we mark this grim anniversary, we remember that those taken from us b...

The Supreme Court will hear from two convicted pill mill doctors in cases that could have significant implications for physicians' latitude to prescribe addictive painkillers. For years, Dr. Xiulu Ruan was one of the nation's top prescribers of quick-release fentanyl drugs. The medicines were approved only for severe breakthrough pain in cancer patients, but Dr. Ruan dispensed them almost exclusively for more common ailments: neck aches, back and joint pain. According to the Department of Justice, he and his partner wrote almost 300,000 prescriptions for controlled substances from 2011 to 2015, filled through the doctors' own pharmacy in Mobile, Ala. Dr. Ruan often signed prescriptions without seeing patients, prosecutors said. Dr. Ruan has been serving a 21-year sentence in federal prison, convicted in 2017 for illegally prescribing opioids and related financial crimes. To collect millions of dollars in fines, the government seized houses, beach condos and bank accounts be...