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It is rec­om­mend­ed that adults receive sev­en to nine hours of sleep each night. How­ev­er, get­ting the sleep you need to func­tion at your best is not always as easy as it sounds.

Dr. Bri­an Ward, orthopaedic sur­geon, and Michael Czu­ba, sports phys­i­cal ther­a­pist and ath­let­ic train­er, pro­vide tips on how to pre­pare for out­door exer­cis­ing and activ­i­ty to avoid injury and to max­i­mize your workout. 

Your hor­mones play an active role in every­thing from your mood to your ener­gy lev­el. Obste­tri­cian Gyne­col­o­gist, Dr. Eliz­a­beth Fried­man, shares insights on how to work with your hor­mones to track your fer­til­i­ty, boost your pro­duc­tiv­i­ty and man­age your social calendar.

For many, breath­ing requires lit­tle effort or thought. For some, how­ev­er, stress and anx­i­ety can lead to short, rapid breath­ing which can wors­en these symp­toms. A great way to avoid feel­ings of stress, anx­i­ety and short­ness of breath is to con­scious­ly focus on the breaths you take each day.

Every­one expe­ri­ences stom­ach pain at var­i­ous times through­out their life. Stom­ach pain can occur in a vari­ety of loca­tions – it may be felt in a spe­cif­ic, iso­lat­ed area or may affect your entire abdomen. Stom­ach pain doesn’t always feel the same either. Some­times it can feel like a dull ache, while oth­er times you may expe­ri­ence cramp­ing and/​or sharp gas-like pains. It can devel­op due to a vari­ety rea­sons, and depend­ing on the cause, may require dif­fer­ent treat­ment. All of these vari­ables can make it chal­leng­ing to deter­mine what’s caus­ing your stom­ach pain. To help, gas­troen­terol­o­gist, Nisha Shah, MD, dis­cuss­es sev­er­al com­mon cul­prits and tips to help you tell them apart.

Advanced car­diac imag­ing is the foun­da­tion for dis­cov­er­ing accu­rate and ear­ly diag­no­sis. Through pre­cise imag­ing, car­di­ol­o­gists are able to iden­ti­fy your heart con­di­tion and cre­ate an effec­tive treat­ment plan for your diag­no­sis. The fol­low­ing imag­ing tech­niques have become some of the most effec­tive meth­ods for iden­ti­fy­ing heart disease.

Most of us have heard the term ​“pelvic floor”, but may not know what the pelvic floor actu­al­ly does. Learn about the func­tions of your pelvic floor and what exer­cis­es you can do to strength­en your muscles. 

HPV is the most com­mon sex­u­al­ly trans­mit­ted infec­tion, affect­ing near­ly 14 mil­lion adults and teens each year. Due to its promi­nence, the FDA has now approved the HPV vac­cine for indi­vid­u­als aged 9 – 45, mean­ing adults and chil­dren can be pro­tect­ed from the virus by receiv­ing the HPV vaccine.

Your skin is one of the most impor­tant (and largest) organs in your body. Just like your heart, eyes, or kid­neys, it’s impor­tant to treat your skin well. Below are a few facts about your skin to help jump start your healthy skin lifestyle.

A cataract is a cloud­ing of the lens in the eye that affects vision. Most cataracts are relat­ed to aging. Cataracts are very com­mon in old­er peo­ple. By age 80, more than half of all Amer­i­cans either have a cataract or have had cataract surgery.