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Washington Woman Magazine has compiled a list of products that donate a portion of proceeds to breast cancer research.

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What should a woman take for hot flushes after the start of the menopause now that large studies show that taking estrogen and progesterone increases risk for breast cancer, heart attacks and strokes? Until recently, the only effective treatment for hot flushes…

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There’s a song that goes, “Mister Sandman, bring me a dream.” Do you remember the folklore that old people used to tell kids to lull them to sleep? It’s about this mystical person that brings sleep by sprinkling magic dust into…

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Nobody really knows. However, both eating fish and taking fish oil pills can lower triglycerides and prevent clotting, which may help prevent heart attacks.  Heart attacks occur when a plaque breaks off from the wall of…

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Many adult women are now being diagnosed with ADHD, after surviving an isolated childhood. Susan McGinnis takes a look at three different women who are overcoming a lifetime of challenge.

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Heatstroke is a sudden uncontrolled rise in body temperature that affects the brain so that it can’t function properly.  It should never happen to you because you get plenty of warning. 

First your muscles are affected, then your circulation and then…

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