Whenever you mention breast cancer, people tend to get worried. This is not surprising since nearly everyone knows someone touched by this disease. Fortunately, though, there is a lot of good news about breast cancer these days. Treatments keep getting more effective with fewer side effects, and we know more than ever about risk factors. […]
Diabetes can affect anyone, regardless of age, race, gender or lifestyle. It can cause serious health problems, including heart attack or stroke, blindness, problems during pregnancy and kidney failure. Diabetes affects women and men in almost equal numbers. However, diabetes affects women differently than men. More than 13 million women have diabetes, or about one in […]
As women, we have a lot of things on our minds and a lot of things asked of us, from raising kids to managing the house and bills to getting our own work done. It’s easy to feel overwhelmed and sad sometimes (we can’t be happy all the time), and being sad is a normal […]
If you are a woman, you are at risk of developing osteoporosis simply by being female. A degenerative disease that causes bones to become weak and brittle, osteoporosis affects men and women of all races, but white and Asian women, especially over the age of 50, are at highest risk. At Westchester Health, we see a lot […]
In the United States, more than 90,000 women are diagnosed with gynecologic cancer each year. Some of these cancers are called “silent killers” because women are often unaware of the signs and symptoms associated with them and do not catch them until it is too late. Hopefully this blog can help women understand what to […]
Although women account for more than half the U.S. population, some women—and even some doctors—think that primary care for women consists of nothing more than an annual Pap smear and a mammogram. I soundly disagree! Doctors of internal medicine are uniquely positioned to address the primary care needs of women Internal medicine physicians are specialists […]
Internists (internal medicine physicians) are personal physicians who provide long-term, comprehensive care in a doctor’s office and in the hospital, managing both common and complex illnesses in adolescents, adults and the elderly.