By Patricia Yarberry Allen, M.D. Prevention begins with awareness of one’s environment and altering behaviors that increase the risk of heatstroke when at all possible.
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Heatstroke: A Summer Risk for the Healthy and Frail
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Dr. Pat Consults: Preventing the Perils of Summer
By Patricia Yarberry Allen, M.D. I have asked three members of the WVFC Medical Advisory Board for their advice to help all of us have a safer summer. Dr. Anetta Reszko discusses what causes acute sunburn, Dr. Jason Kendler provides information on tick-borne illnesses, and Dr. Baxter Allen covers the risks of trauma from boating, swimming and cycling.
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Dr. Pat Consults: Is the ‘Female Viagra’ for Me?
Important work by Rosemary Basson, M.D., introduced the concept of a “circular” response cycle in women, as opposed to the more “linear” one that describes male sexuality, in which desire leads to arousal as a prelude to sex. Many women report “multiple reasons for initiating or agreeing to sex,” and desire may not be experienced until after arousal.
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One Death Too Many: Maternal Deaths Continue to Rise in the U.S.
While maternal mortality is often thought of as something that was a problem in the past, it remains a very current concern in the United States as the maternal death rate continues to rise.
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2005 – 2015: Women’s Voices for Change Celebrates 10 Years
By Patricia Yarberry Allen, M.D. Ten years later, I am pleased to report that our organization, WVFC, is still here. This year we will embark on a mentoring initiative to show women on the cusp of the second half of life that their best decades are ahead of them. And today, we are honoring Christy Turlington Burns at our annual luncheon in New York. She has been chosen as our 2015 Champion for Change, an award given to women who have made a difference.
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A Healthier, More Satisfying Second Half of Life: 40 Things for Every Woman in Her 40s
By Patricia Yarberry Allen, M.D. The best 40th birthday gift a woman can give herself is a promise to begin these 40 things before 50 so she can have a healthier, more satisfying second half of life.
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A Healthier, More Satisfying Second Half of Life: Sex In the 40s
By Patricia Yarberry Allen, M.D. The truth is that we can be better at managing everything else if we recharge our batteries with time for sexual intimacy. The “use it or lose it” mantra does apply here. At 40, put your sex life on the schedule and keep it there.
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The New Thanksgiving: Memories of a Faithful Dog
By Patricia Yarberry Allen, M.D. Fifty years ago, Jim adopted his first dog from a shelter. He told me how much all the dogs he had cared for over the years had meant to him.
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A Healthier, More Satisfying Second Half of Life: Protecting Brain Function.
By Patricia Yarberry Allen, M.D. If you have not begun to think about brain health, forty is the age to create a strategy that works for your life so that you can sustain cognitive function for the long haul.
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New Year’s Eve with ‘Anderson Cooper and Kathy Griffin’ in Palm Beach
By Patricia Yarberry Allen, M.D. The Husband and I love coming here every year at this time. We enjoy the peace and freedom from no longer having to entertain others for a long week. The weather is always perfect. The area where the house is located has been nicely maintained. The palm trees at the entrance are decorated with hundreds of tiny white lights. Our stress levels diminish as soon as we begin the two mile drive from the main road to our house.
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Anderson Cooper and Kathy Griffin Bring In the New Year
By Patricia Yarberry Allen, M.D.
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New Year’s Day Resolution: Right-Sizing Life
By Patricia Yarberry Allen, M.D. This year The Husband and I have decided to right-size our lives. Our resolution is to right-size the way we would like to live now. We want to have a smaller apartment in the city and find a house in the country, a house that is far enough away to prevent daily commuting into New York City but close enough for long weekends by car and convenient for family and friends to join us.
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A Healthier, More Satisfying Second Half of Life: Bone Health
This is the eighth in our series (40 Things for Every Woman in Her 40s) of Medical Monday articles intended to be useful to all our readers, but pointed especially toward those in their 40s — that in-between decade in which hormonal change has begun but fertility is still possible. This week the focus is on musculoskeletal health.
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America Has Disappointed Martin Luther King, Jr.
By Patricia Yarberry Allen, M.D. Consider the path that is being chosen for American citizens in the 21st century and remember Dr. King’s hopeful words — that we can have a country where “All men, yes black men as well as white men, would be guaranteed the ‘unalienable Rights of Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.’ ”
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Cognitive Behavioral Therapy for Management of Hot Flashes and Night Sweats: Ask Dr. Pat
By Patricia Yarberry Allen, M.D. There’s good news: New studies indicate that Cognitive Behavioral Therapy may provide drug-free management of the distressing hot flashes and night sweats that often occur after breast cancer treatment and during the menopausal transition.
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Reinvention at 45 (Ask Dr. Pat)
By Dr. Patricia Yarberry Allen Menopause is never old news, because there is a new freshman class entering this life stage every year. Women are now bombarded about the symptoms and the options for management. Here is a lesson plan for a summer of reinvention, based on goals, age, current lifestyle, health issues, and interest in managing the symptoms of the often decade-long menopausal transition in a positive way.
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Reinvention at 45, Part II (Ask Dr. Pat)
By Patricia Yarberry Allen, M.D. Women are now bombarded about the symptoms of menopause and the options for its management. Here is a lesson plan for a summer of reinvention, based on goals, age, current lifestyle, health issues, and interest in managing the symptoms of the often decade-long menopausal transition in a positive way.
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Survival Training for Daylight Saving Time
By Patricia Yarberry Allen, M.D. This year I set my clock ahead one week before the time change as an experiment. I knew that the time on my personal devices was an hour ahead of the actual time but I decided to try “mind over reality.” I woke up and went to work an hour earlier all last week and went to bed an hour earlier as well.
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St. Patrick’s Day: Stop the Madness
By Patricia Yarberry Allen, M.D. The day commemorates St. Patrick and the arrival of Christianity in Ireland and is meant to celebrate the heritage and culture of Ireland.
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A Note From the Publisher: May Is Mental Health Awareness Month
By Patricia Yarberry Allen, M.D. May is National Mental Health Awareness Month. This one month of Mental Health Awareness helps to increase education, focus on cause and treatment, and encourages evaluation of those with symptoms that can be associated with mental illness.
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