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Health News You Can Use: Perimenopause
Perimenopause is the transition between reproductive age and menopause, which can last several years and affect physical, emotional, mental and social well-being.
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FOX 4: Saint Luke's Physician Shares Insights on Perimenopause During Women's Health Week
Learn more about signs and symptoms of perimenopause, navigating treatment, and how your women's health provider can help in this segment with Bret Gordon, DO, division chair at Saint Luke’s Women’s Health South.
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Surviving a Silent Threat
Feeling “off” turned into a critical situation within moments when Stacee suffered a ruptured brain aneurysm that led to a hemorrhagic stroke.
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Aneurysm Survivor Raises Awareness About High Blood Pressure in Women
An elementary school music teacher and jazz musician, 54-year-old Lisa was initially diagnosed with high blood pressure—the number one killer of women—in her early 30s. It is often called “the silent killer” because most who have it don’t experience any symptoms. Lisa was on blood pressure medication but had stopped taking it because she experienced side effects. She put off seeing her doctor about it for several months.
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Saint Luke’s Vein Clinic Gets Kickboxer’s Legs in Fighting Form
Shanon Wolfe's varicose vein troubles were more than cosmetic. Although her legs didn’t hurt at the end of the day, more and more often they felt heavy and tired. It began interfering with her kickboxing.
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Aneurysm Threatens Baseball Fan’s Life, Saint Luke’s Rallies to Bring Him Home
Ramon Grado doesn’t remember driving home and then sprawling on the living room floor on Jan. 13, 2013. Patty, his wife of 33 years, found him there an hour later, awake and complaining about his headache.