Features Related to Women's Health
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Can You Trust Your Mammogram?
By Fran Smith Why even smart doctors miss breast cancer - and how to make sure you're getting the best care. No matter what you know about other diseases, breast cancer is probably the one that scares you most. It is frightening, striking nearly 182,000 women this year and plunging them into a wor
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What Stresses Us Out?
It's become an almost fashionable lament, a way of saying I have a lot on my plate - life is rich. But does it also mean you're putting your health at risk?
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Live Well On Less
Just because the economy looks bleak doesn't mean you have to deprive yourself and your family. Here's how to spend less, but have more. You don't need us to tell you times are tight. Between the rising cost of gas and groceries, a disheartening recession, and the shaky job and housing markets, you'
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25 Ways to Save Money
Lots of small savings can add up big. These easy penny-pinching tricks let you preserve more of your paycheck.
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Make Full-Time Money Working Part-Time
These determined moms found flexible schedules without sacrificing their family finances. You can too.
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Surviving a Layoff
You worked late and did everything right. But your company pink-slipped you anyway. Now what? Three women prove there is life after losing your job.
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Happy Meals
By Aviva Patz Turns out food fuels more than your body -- it feeds your mood too. But before you reach for the Ben & Jerry's, read on to see what you should eat (and avoid) to fight stress, fatigue, the blues, and more. Do you head to the kitchen when you're tired...or stressed...or sad...or just pl
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How to Silence Your Critics
By Jessie Knadler You didn't see it coming. You didn't even feel it land — until a split second later when you suddenly realize you've had the wind knocked out of you. What just hit you? Someone's nasty comment, and it's cut you to the core. Sometimes a faultfinder disguises her disapproval as a qua
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Diet Secrets From Around the World
The Mediterranean diet. The Asian diet. The French women have their own diet, too. When it comes to weight control, it sometimes seems as if every culture on the planet has the answer -- except us! Fabulous foreign food doesn't have to be fatty What we can learn from the French way of eating Take it
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3 Common Conditions Women Don't Talk About: Incontinence, Lack of Desire and Irritable Bowel Syndrome
Even the most blunt, out-spoken women tend to clam up if they have one of these three potentially embarrassing medical problems: incontinence, irritable bowel syndrome (IBS), and diminished female sexual libido. If you're like many other women, you'd rather live with the sometimes distressing sympto
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