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Posted by
chloe1331
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Disease/Illness,
Apr 16, 2013 2:20pm
bleeding disorders are more common than you think.
women get hemophilia too
there is no such thing as being a carrier when it comes to bleeding disorders: it's all about the levels of clotting factors
bleeding disorders are more common than you think.
women get hemophilia too
there is no such thing as being a carrier when it comes to bleeding disorders: it's all about the levels of clotting factors
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Posted by
Educatingwomen
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Oct 3, 2012 9:15am
World AIDS Day is on 1 December every year and people around the world come together to fight against HIV, show support for people living with HIV, and remember those who have died. World AIDS Day was the first ever global health day and the first one was held in 1988.
Being educated ...
World AIDS Day is on 1 December every year and people around the world come together to fight against HIV, show support for people living with HIV, and remember those who have died. World AIDS Day was the first ever global health day and the first one was held in 1988.
Being educated and getting tested are the first steps to empowering yourself and others
We need to empower ourselves and start making better choices for our health and spread the word.
This segment should seek to change the stigma that HIV has a certain look. It doesn't matter your age or career HIV looks like all of everyone. Anyone could be at risk. I seek to motivate women and men in our communities to get tested and change their view of HIV. After hearing Catherine Wyatt-Morley speak in Nashville, TN I realized how important this issue is and that we need to take a stand and change the stigma by speaking about HIV.
Catherine Wyatt-Morley knows firsthand the complexities of being a mother living with HIV and getting that dreaded news “You have AIDS”, given the intersections of rearing children-school, navigating work, religion, doctors, rejection, and other systems that often silence women’s care. She is a woman, whose story is about what it is like to be dishonored in married, becoming a single mother infected with HIV and living with AIDS, the dilemma of minority acceptance or rejection, workplace discrimination, including corporate law suits, the reality of risks facing married women, and the effects on the children of infected parents. She would be a great Woman to represent not only a mother living with HIV, but those activists currently working daily to change HIV in our communities.
Catherine Wyatt-Morley is founder of W.O.R.T.H., the first HIV positive women’s support group in Nashville Tennessee (1994). Catherine is the producer of the video Reasons To Live: Women, Their Families and HIV (1996) and the author of the internationally acclaimed book AIDS Memoir Journal of an HIV Positive Mother, (Kumarian Press, 1997) and Positive People, Combating HIV and AID(Trafford Publishing 2006). Catherine has continued her authorship with a third work and is currently seeking its publication.
She is Founder and Chief Executive Officer of Women On Maintaining Education and Nutrition, (W.O.M.E.N.) a 501(c) 3 community based organization (1994). W.O.M.E.N. is the only HIV/AIDS focused community based agency found, organized and administered by an African American mother living with AIDS in the state of Tennessee. Currently, Catherine has become a Distinguished Faculty Member, Bristol-Myers Squibb Pharmaceutical Company Speakers Bureau, where she is a highly sought after speaker. She has received numerous awards and honors. Her contributions to women’s health, new awareness relative to HIV disease specifically to children, teen’s, and women are phenomenal.
Catherine Wyatt-Morley Contact information:
W.O.M.E.N.
******************************************
Nashville, TN *****
T: (***) ***-****
F: (***) ****-****
information@educatingwomen.org
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Posted by
Educatingwomen
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Oct 3, 2012 9:11am
World AIDS Day is on 1 December every year and people around the world come together to fight against HIV, show support for people living with HIV, and remember those who have died. World AIDS Day was the first ever global health day and the first one was held in 1988.
Being educated ...
World AIDS Day is on 1 December every year and people around the world come together to fight against HIV, show support for people living with HIV, and remember those who have died. World AIDS Day was the first ever global health day and the first one was held in 1988.
Being educated and getting tested are the first steps to empowering yourself and others
We need to empower ourselves and start making better choices for our health and spread the word.
This segment should seek to has a certain look. It doesn't matter your age or career HIV looks like all of everyone. Anyone could be at risk. I seek to motivate women and men in our communities to get tested and change their view of HIV. After hearing Catherine Wyatt-Morley speak in Nashville, TN I realized how important this issue is and that we need to take a stand and change the stigma by speaking about HIV.
Catherine Wyatt-Morley knows firsthand the complexities of being a mother living with HIV and getting that dreaded news “You have AIDS”, given the intersections of rearing children-school, navigating work, religion, doctors, rejection, and other systems that often silence women’s care. She is a woman, whose story is about what it is like to be dishonored in married, becoming a single mother infected with HIV and living with AIDS, the dilemma of minority acceptance or rejection, workplace discrimination, including corporate law suits, the reality of risks facing married women, and the effects on the children of infected parents. She would be a great Woman to represent not only a mother living with HIV, but those activists currently working daily to change HIV in our communities.
Catherine Wyatt-Morley is founder of W.O.R.T.H., the first HIV positive women’s support group in Nashville Tennessee (1994). Catherine is the producer of the video Reasons To Live: Women, Their Families and HIV (1996) and the author of the internationally acclaimed book AIDS Memoir Journal of an HIV Positive Mother, (Kumarian Press, 1997) and Positive People, Combating HIV and AID(Trafford Publishing 2006). Catherine has continued her authorship with a third work and is currently seeking its publication.
She is Founder and Chief Executive Officer of Women On Maintaining Education and Nutrition, (W.O.M.E.N.) a 501(c) 3 community based organization (1994). W.O.M.E.N. is the only HIV/AIDS focused community based agency found, organized and administered by an African American mother living with AIDS in the state of Tennessee. Currently, Catherine has become a Distinguished Faculty Member, Bristol-Myers Squibb Pharmaceutical Company Speakers Bureau, where she is a highly sought after speaker. She has received numerous awards and honors. Her contributions to women’s health, new awareness relative to HIV disease specifically to children, teen’s, and women are phenomenal.
Catherine Wyatt-Morley Contact information:
W.O.M.E.N.
***************************************
Nashville, TN *****
T: (***) ***-****
F: (***) ***-****
information@educatingwomen.org
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Posted by
xhousemover1
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Disease/Illness,
Aug 3, 2012 2:58pm
Could you have a tumor - AND NOT KNOW IT?
Could it be growing in your body each year?
Is it affecting your overall health every day?
Find out @www.parathyroid.com
"There is no other disease that is so easy to cure which has such a huge impact on a person's overa...
Could you have a tumor - AND NOT KNOW IT?
Could it be growing in your body each year?
Is it affecting your overall health every day?
Find out @www.parathyroid.com
"There is no other disease that is so easy to cure which has such a huge impact on a person's overall health and quality of life" said Dr James Norman, during his 2011 address to the American College of Surgeons.
Hyperparathyroidism is a condition whereby increased parathyroid hormone is produced. This is usually caused by a tumor that consumes one or more of a patient’s four parathyroid glands located on the underside of the thyroid gland. This hormone then attacks and removes the calcium from a patients bones and deposits it in the blood, thereby creating a higher than normal level of calcium.
The resulting symptoms, some of which may include frequent reoccurring headaches, fatigue, bone and joint pain, depression, acid reflux, high blood pressure, kidney stones, and severe osteoporosis, can create a potentially life threatening condition over time. In most cases, these symptoms are so subtle that it takes many years to diagnose this disease.
Dr. James Norman and his surgical team practice at the NORMAN PARATHYROID CENTER, an annex of Tampa General Hospital, in Tampa, Florida. Dr Norman has perfected advanced methods for the diagnosis and surgical removal of parathyroid tumors. Developing nuclear scanning to detect with greater certainty exactly where tumors are located has led to minimizing surgical procedures as well as the corresponding follow-up treatment. Their successful performance of thousands of surgeries, and their capitulation of comparative statistics over many years, has made this team undoubtedly experts in the field of hyperparathyroidism.
Highlighting the NORMAN PARATHYROID CENTER on a segment of “THE DOCTORS" show will go a long way to better inform the world, the medical community, and the public in general, of the importance of the early warning signs, as well as the ease of diagnosis of this disease.
Please contact: Dr. James Norman, 2400 Cypress Glen Drive, FL 33544-4602, 813-972-0000.
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Posted by
FrannyPanny
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Disease/Illness,
Jan 26, 2012 10:19am
Please do a show to talk about people and how to deal with people that have seizures or other disorders like this.The misconceptions people have about people that have it and abstruse irreverent way they sometimes deal with epileptics. People still think that you are suppose to put something i...
Please do a show to talk about people and how to deal with people that have seizures or other disorders like this.The misconceptions people have about people that have it and abstruse irreverent way they sometimes deal with epileptics. People still think that you are suppose to put something in their mouth so they don't swallow their tongue?? In the news media they have had many celebrities that have had seizures due to past drug addictions and eating disorders. I have epilepsy because it runs in my DNA and I did not do anything to bring this medical condition upon me. There are children and they get taunted for having it in school, people are scared about things they don't under stand. There is so much research for other illnesses and I feel there is not enough with epilepsy. I have been told I can't go on a field trip with my daughter because I would scare the other children even though there are kids at the school with epilepsy. The child had a seizure and no one really knew how to deal with it. My husband asked for a one story in the housing that we are living in and the manager said " It's only epilepsy" so if I have a seizure on the stairs it could be devastating. I have had two in the shower and there was water in the bottom and my husband had to pull me out because i almost drowned. Anyway...there are a lot of things that we do have to worry about but we still go on. I just want to have an understanding and I want to openly talk about it. A show about people like me maybe with a heart condition? We need to be informed. The kids at school as well instead of pretending it doesn't exist it does. The teachers need to know it could happen to anyone.
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Posted by
1962suzannerutto
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Disease/Illness,
Oct 10, 2011 7:22pm
What it is and if its contagious.
What it is and if its contagious.
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