Each person is the captain of his or her own health team.

Stress accompanies going off to college                       Millions of young men and women have now completed two months of college, some have exprienced so much stress. Two months of several hundred graduates of Rabun County High, Rabun Gap...

Please use condoms!

900 is so different than 5

Violent and abusive behavior against women, which can be both physically and emotionally harmful, gain societal acceptance when they are glamorized and normalized in popular culture such as books and movies.

Even though more than eight in 10 unmarried women 18-29 say they would be upset if they got pregnant at this time in their lives, nearly half (48%) say it is at least a little bit likely they will have unprotected sex in the next year; one in five say it is very likely, according to a new survey released today.

“If you don’t understand the numbers, you don’t understand the enterprise.”

Several other tasks:

· Copies of an updated will in a safe, at home and in a lawyer’s office.

· A living will

· Clearly written DO NOT RESSUSITATE orders in hands of doctors and family.

· Enough cash for my wife or children to cover expenses right after my death.

· I want to be sure to have copies of several funny movies.

Health truly is an inside job.

Take home messages for women – not just teenagers:
• Use of pills for10 years will lower your risk of ever developing ovarian cancer.
• If you are going to have a tubal sterilization operation or hysterectomy, be sure your physician knows you want the ends of your fallopian tubes removed too. Not all physicians know this. So you tell female relatives this!