Health News and Scoops

It’s a common scenario. A pregnant woman, who has carefully examined her options for birth – capturing all her wishes and preferences in a birth plan – realizes that her healthcare provider is not accustomed to providing the kind of care she wants. Her birth plan does not match her provider’s practice style.

To help women avoid this frustrating situation, the American College of Nurse-Midwives (ACNM), with funding from the A.C.N.M. Foundation, Inc., has developed an interactive, online quiz, www.DeliverMyBaby.org, to help mothers-to-be take the first step toward choosing the best care provider that matches their needs.

DeliverMyBaby.org, asks women for general information about their health status, and helps them explore their preferences in maternity care. Each woman’s answers are then calculated to generate a recommended type of care provider to consider. Answers are not recorded and the quiz is anonymous, so women can explore their options in privacy.

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D-Psoria products are the first topical, non-prescription cosmeceuticals for the redness, scaling and flaking associated with severe skin conditions. Developed by Astrel Genome Ltd., D-Psoria is being marketed in the U.S. by MediNiche Pharmaceuticals, St. Louis, Missouri.

D-Psoria products were developed in conjunction with doctors, estheticians and ayurvedic (science of life) natural principles. All products utilize natural ingredients, unique herbal extracts and key minerals, that when applied topically are designed specifically to help regenerate new, healthy skin.

D-Psoria is ideal for use by patients and consumers that wish to try a natural product as an alternative prior to considering prescription drug therapy. It is being promoted to medical and skincare professionals for recommendation to patients and consumers as a pre-pharmacotherapy consideration.

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Starting a diet and workout regimen to lose weight and get healthy is one of the most popular New Year’s resolutions and probably the shortest lived. Why? Because most diets focus on elimination and denial, when in reality, getting healthy is about including more of the foods that are good for you.

Mythbuster: Dieters mistakenly believe that they have to eliminate red meat to live a heart healthy lifestyle and lose weight. Resolution-makers rejoice: with less than 9 grams of fat per serving, AHA certified Laura’s Lean Beef makes biting into a juicy burger a gulit-free pleasure that’s actually good for you, according to dieticians and nutritionists.

With Laura’s Lean Beef, an averaged size burger contributes less than 10 percent of calories to a 2,000-calorie diet, yet it supplies more than 10 percent of the recommended Daily Value for protein, zinc, vitamin B12, selenium, phosphorous, niacin, vitamin B6, iron and riboflavin.

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When a woman starts going through menopause, her entire life can change without warning. Menopause symptoms can cause undesirable reactions in the body that runs the gamut from hot flashes and weight gain to mood swings, sleeplessness and irritability. These menopause signs cause women to feel different as well as look different, since skin’s elasticity and overall vitality decrease dramatically with the onset of these menopause symptoms.

In lieu of taking hormone replacement therapies to treat menopause signs, more and more women are turning to natural menopause remedies for a safer solution that is just as effective.

Women who have tried Don’t Pause are gaining back their former vitality, energy, and physiques thanks to the natural menopause remedy’s key ingredients. Aside from pomegranate extract and green tea, Don’t Pause also contains selenium, Phytoestrogens, Black Cohosh and chromium Picolinate, all of which play tremendous roles in combating the effects of aging.

The Anti Aging Institute of California’s Dr. Ershadi stands behind Don’t Pause as one of the best natural menopause remedies available, and invites women suffering from symptoms like menopause weight gain and menopause hot flashes to give Don’t Pause a try. Without risky addition hormones, Don’t Pause can make life during menopause worth enjoying.

Ultragen Ltd, the home beauty innovators, launches TriPollar STOP, a skin anti aging device to the Hungarian market in partnership with Eurowares Trading Kft.

The TriPollar STOP, a hand held anti aging skin renewal device, aimed primarily at the females segment, was launched at the beginning of September 2008 in the UK’s most prestigious department stores followed by France in October 2008. The device, which enables consumers to treat aging skin on the face, neck, décolletage and hand area with TriPollar energy adjusted for home use to tighten aging skin, reduces wrinkles and fine-lines and boost collagen levels is the first product to market which brings clinically proven TriPollar results to the home environment.

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