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1 week ago | 
yahoo.com | Mara Santilli
Endometriosis, a condition that often involves serious pain and heavy periods due to uterine tissue growing outside the uterus, affects 10% of women worldwide.
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1 week ago | 
theflowspace.com | Mara Santilli
While pancreatic cancer tends to be thought of as a “men’s disease” because it is slightly more prevalent in men, it’s not that much more prevalent, and women should still be aware of their risk (about 1 in 60 women will be diagnosed vs. 1 in 56 men, per the American Cancer Society). A recent study also found that pancreatic cancer diagnoses are on the rise in women under 55.
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3 weeks ago | 
theflowspace.com | Mara Santilli
In a country where women were essentially left out of major health research and clinical trials , we can’t afford to widen the women’s health research gap any further.
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3 weeks ago | 
yahoo.com | Mara Santilli
In a country where women were essentially left out of major health research and clinical trials , we can’t afford to widen the women’s health research gap any further.
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3 weeks ago | 
theflowspace.com | Mara Santilli
Sometimes it can feel like you spend the whole first part of your life prioritizing certain aspects of your health, and then, all of a sudden, you’re being bombarded with advice to start strength training during midlife, particularly to protect your bone health.
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3 weeks ago | 
yahoo.com | Mara Santilli
Sometimes it can feel like you spend the whole first part of your life prioritizing certain aspects of your health, and then, all of a sudden, you’re being bombarded with advice to start strength training during midlife, particularly to protect your bone health.
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4 weeks ago | 
theflowspace.com | Mara Santilli
Anyone who’s had even one migraine in their lifetime can attest to the fact that it is not just a headache; migraines are often accompanied by debilitating symptoms including nausea, blurred vision and sensitivity to light and sound. And gender, specifically being female, is another factor when it comes to the severity of migraines, too. According to the Migraine Research Foundation, as many as 85% of chronic migraine sufferers are women. Put another way, women are to get migraines than men.
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4 weeks ago | 
theflowspace.com | Mara Santilli
When it comes to saunas, spas and other wellness hubs are thinking outside the box—the tiny box in the back corner of your gym, that is.
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1 month ago | 
healthcentral.com | Mara Santilli
As if you needed any more reason to get your regular screenings for when you have diabetes, new findings suggest the odds for developing the eye condition are exponentially greater than what was previously thought. “The estimate used to be that 4% to 9% of people with type 1 diabetes (T1D) for 12 or 13 years had diabetic retinopathy, while between 4% and 13% of people with relatively newly-diagnosed type 2 diabetes (T2D) had the condition,” states Julie M.
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1 month ago | 
wellandgood.com | Mara Santilli
When Sabrina Carpenter sang “can't help myself, hormonеs are high” in her song “Juno"—a fantasy about getting pregnant with a romantic partner, and posed in a different “position” each night of her concert tour, she definitely caught everyone’s attention.
