The Checkup Archive: Women's Health
Which diet makes you happy?
In the ongoing debate about which diet is the best, here's a question you may not have heard before: Which diet is most likely to make you happy? A new study, surprisingly, indicates that when it comes to elevating your mood, not all diets are created equal....
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Rob Stein
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November 11, 2009; 7:00 AM ET |
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General Health
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Mental Health
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Nutrition and Fitness
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Obesity
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Psychology
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Women's Health
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Teen girls and risky sex
It's tempting to assume that teenage girls who have unprotected sex at an early age do so because they're hot to trot, in a hurry and ill-informed. But new research suggests things are much more complicated than that. Reporting in the November issue of Pediatrics, University of Pittsburgh researchers found...
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Jennifer LaRue Huget
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November 2, 2009; 7:00 AM ET |
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Sex
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Teens
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Women's Health
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Getting Guys to Wash Their Hands
We all know that one of the simplest, best ways to stay healthy is to wash our hands a lot, especially these days during the swine flu pandemic. Some new research out Thursday offers clues to what gets people to actually do it. And guess what? Shame appears to be...
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Rob Stein
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October 15, 2009; 7:00 AM ET |
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Family Health
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General Health
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Influenza
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Prevention
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Psychology
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Women's Health
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Virus Associated With Chronic Fatigue Syndrome
Scientists have found evidence that a virus may play a role in chronic fatigue syndrome. Vincent C. Lombardi of the Whittemore Peterson Institute in Reno, Nev., and scientists elsewhere studied 101 patients with chronic fatigue syndrome, a baffling, debilitating and controversial condition that affects an estimated 17 million people worldwide....
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Rob Stein
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October 8, 2009; 2:00 PM ET |
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Chronic Conditions
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Disabilities
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Women's Health
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For Some Women, Recession Means Having Few Children
By Rob Stein The recession is apparently prompting more women to try to delay having babies, according to the first survey (pdf) aimed at documenting the effects of the economic downtown on childbearing. Nearly half of working-class women want to put off childbearing or to have fewer children, according to...
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washingtonpost.com Editors
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September 23, 2009; 7:50 AM ET |
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Family Health
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Women's Health
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A Fatal Blow for HRT?
Postmenopausal women on combined estrogen/progestin hormone replacement therapy (HRT) are at increased risk of getting and dying from lung cancer, according to research published in the British medical journal The Lancet. The discovery adds to the already long list of risks associated with HRT and bolsters the case against its...
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Jennifer LaRue Huget
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September 19, 2009; 7:01 PM ET |
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