Oral health

Oral health Good oral health is important for your total well-being. The condition of the tissues and structures of your mouth affect your general physical condition, ability to chew and speak, appearance, and personal relations.

Managing Your Health: Personal Health Guide The first in a series of four health guides It's the New Year - and the time many of us set goals for ourselves, and our family. One of which is usually to eat right and exercise more: to generally manage our health better...

Emergency Contraception: The Morning After Pills An emergency form of birth control is available to women, but many do not know it exists. Oral contraceptives used for this purpose are often referred to as 'the morning after pill.' Not just one pill, emergency contraception (EC)...

Managing Your Health: Child Health Guide Additional Information The fourth in a series of four health guides. Managing your health, and the health of your child, means putting prevention into practice. The last in our Managing Your Health series, Managing Your Health: Child Health Guide Additional Information presents

Baby Bottle Tooth Decay: A Short-Term Solution Can Cause A Long-Term Problem Your child is crying; she won't go to sleep. So you give her a bottle of milk or juice because you know that will calm her. But should you? Are you doing more harm than good?...

Group B Strep and Pregnancy Group B streptococcus (GBS or Group B Strep) is the most common cause of life-threatening infections in newborns - and it?s found in about 20 percent to 40 percent of pregnant women. Because of this, more pregnant women today are...

Travel And Pregnancy You've been making plans to take that 'trip of a life-time!' But, now you find out you're pregnant. What should you do? Should you still take that trip? As always, talk with your doctor about your individual situation, but here...

Rosacea: Is Your Blushing From Embarrassment Or Something Else? W.C. Fields's best-remembered feature is his bulbous red nose. He suffered with rosacea (rose-A-sheuh) as do 13 million Americans today. If you notice you blush...

Prostate Cancer: Early Diagnosis can change your life If a man lives long enough, some say, the question is not if but when he will be diagnosed with prostate cancer. Not so long ago this was particularly grim news. Today breakthroughs in detection and treatment have made the diagnosis...