Medical Updates from Dr. Z’s Newsletter

Surprising news about female sterilization Or “permanent contraception” (the new term): It was huge news in 1996 when a large study (CREST) was published and we learned that female sterilization, or having your tubes tied, failed much more often than we had...

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Do it again and again and again

At day’s end you’ll share a cup of tea with your neighbor. You are never alone”.
Laughter is important the article notes. Read about this man and you will find out about the sex life of older Ikarian folks. From the above you can probably imagine what it will tell you.

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Amenorrhea and combined oral contraceptive pills

Given the lack of evidence supporting a cause-and-effect relationship between CHC and subsequent amenorrhea, women with post-pill amenorrhea should undergo the same evaluation as any woman with secondary amenorrhea.

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Colorectal Cancers are Falling

The number of cases of colorectal cancer and deaths from colorectal cancer have been falling every single year in women since 1947 and in men since 1980.

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Death with dignity

These changes are definitely troubling to people who instinctively find the thought of physicians assisting their patient’s efforts to die, that is, legalized physician-assisted suicide, completely repellent. “But increasingly, society is acknowledging that denying people the right to die with dignity and safety is even more repellent.”

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Where do you stand on women’s rights?

For 15 years I have given lectures to different classes of students from Georgia Tech (several a year). Each class had 250 to 300 students.
I told them about the following three women. These cases explain why I am a strong supporter of women’s rights:

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SUCH A BIG PROBLEM!

You have to make lifestyle changes, and that’s a much more difficult pill for people to swallow.

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