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Toni Hurst

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posted 01/20/2009, comments (0)

Build Your Beauty From The Inside - On Osteopenia

I'm so happy that my fellow expert on this site has written about osteopenia and osteoporosis, and enlightened me about the drugs being touted. Sandy Greenquist's post from 1/12 shows how words from an ad agency can mislead doctors, clinicians and smart women like you and me. I worry about osteoporosis, since I have been diagnosed with... Read more Chevron

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Sandy Greenquist

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posted 01/12/2009, comments (0)

Fosamax Does Not Build Bone, It Prevents Loss and There's a Difference

It seems to me that far too many health care providers are jumping to prescribe one of the "bone-building" drugs as the first response for any woman who shows any sign of decreased bone mass, even when they are far from having osteoporosis or even advanced osteopenia (the level of loss before osteoporosis). The drugs, the first of which was... Read more Chevron

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posted 01/05/2009, comments (0)

What We Have In Common With Oprah

Like many of us, I've made a New Year's resolution to lose weight. I know it's only a few days into the year, but so far I'm doing ok. I got the treadmill fixed, that was step one. Then I got on it. That was step two. So far so good. I know I'm not the only one who has noticed a big difference in my weight gain since menopause. It's in my... Read more Chevron

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posted 01/04/2009, comments (9)

want help

please, if anyone out there knows anything. . . i am 46, struggled with PMS most of my life. terrible cramping, mood, etc. terrible pregnancy mood into terrible labor then c-sections, then post part. depresn. my period has been dysfunctional to say the least. at times i need more sleep then not. 3 -4 am wake up time... Read more Chevron

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Sandy Greenquist

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posted 12/28/2008, comments (0)

Breast Cancer and Hormone Therapy

The facts and the fiction...there are a lot of both. I, for one, am ready for the media to stop replaying various takes on the Women's Health Initiative (WHI) and alarming women with often erroneous, frequently skewed, stories based on that flawed study. The WHI released in 2002 investigated mostly older women (average age 64) who started... Read more Chevron

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