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Making Changes for the Change of Life
This week’s posting is really aimed at women (sorry, men) who are or who will be soon entering menopause. Menopause marks another phase of a woman’s life, signaling that her reproductive years have ended…
Weight Gain and Gestational Diabetes
Weight gain between a woman’s first and second pregnancies is associated with a higher risk of gestational diabetes during the second pregnancy, according to a new study from the Kaiser Permanente Division of Research…
What We’re Reading: New Tax Benefits for Nursing Mothers
This tax season, new mothers may have something to celebrate. A new IRS policy allows mothers tax benefits on breastfeeding and other nursing supplies…
Osteoporosis: Yet Another Complication of Diabetes? (Part 1)
As if you didn’t have enough to contend with managing diabetes, many of you will need to consider your risk of developing osteoporosis at some point. Women are certainly at higher risk of getting this bone disease, but men aren’t off the hook either. And while most people don’t usually link diabetes with osteoporosis, there actually is a connection, so it’s important to take steps to keep your bones as healthy as possible.
Article of the Week: Urinary Incontinence
Sometimes diabetes, gynecological issues (such as those Jan Chait writes about in her blog entry this week), and urinary problems go hand in hand. In fact, women with diabetes have a 70% higher chance of developing urinary incontinence (the involuntary loss of urine) than those without. This article describes the different types of incontinence and several methods of treatment, including bladder retraining, drug therapy, and inserted devices.
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Just Itching to Share the News
So I get this e-mail from Web Editor Tara Dairman one day asking me if I’ve ever had any experience with diabetes-related yeast infections and would I like to blog about it.
"You want me," I zapped back, "to tell the world about my itchy hooha?"
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