Hormone replacement therapy for Manning would take several years

The hormones may come in pill or injectable form. Its a legitimate medical treatment that [patients] need access to, and being without it can lead to negative health outcomes including suicide, Keatley said. However, HRT has its limits which is where reconstructive surgery can come into play. Masculine characteristics such as height, facial features and voice are not affected by changes in sex hormones. The Philadelphia Center for Transgender Surgery , one of only a handful of such clinics in the nation, performs breast augmentations and genital surgeries, as well as facial feminization procedures tailored to patients needs.
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Can hormone therapy help protect the brain?

Hormone therapy has become less common since WHI data linked hormone use to heart disease, stroke and breast cancer, though it’s still considered the most effective treatment for some symptoms of menopause, such as hot flashes. Curtis, who wasn’t involved in the new research, said she thinks the pendulum initially swung too far away from hormone therapy, and that doctors are coming to realize it may still help some women. “I think ultimately people have become aware that maybe it’s not the placebo for getting older that some may have perceived it was being marketed as, but that maybe there are benefits for it,” she told Reuters Health. Because of the risks, women shouldn’t take hormone therapy just to prevent fractures, Wactawski-Wende said. “The major indication for taking hormone therapy is for management of moderate to severe menopausal symptoms,” she told Reuters Health.
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Manning request for hormone therapy could lead to legal showdown

Disciplinary Barracks at Fort Leavenworth, Kansas is pictured in this photo courtesy of the U.S. military barracks public affairs department. Bradley Manning was sentenced on August 22, 2013, to 35 years in a military prison for turning over more than 700,000 classified files to WikiLeaks in the biggest breach of secret data in the nation’s history, and will serve his sentence at the U.S. Disciplinary Barracks.
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Hormone therapy, calcium may lower fracture risk

We should be talking to women about HRT again at the time of menopause as the benefits often outweigh the risks in newly menopausal females without strong family hx of breast Cancer. Also, the breast cancer risk is smaller than most people think…even smaller than being obese. October 27, 2012 at 16:51 | Report abuse | Reply MKM Thanks for your thoughtful and well-informed approach to this issue, DrJohn. It was astounding how many physicians immediaetly adopted the media conclusions on HRT after the WHI study without ever actually reading the journal article and considering all of the study’s problems and limitations. Sadly, I have also found that many docs just don’t know much about research and are therefore unable to assess study results intelligently.
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Hormone therapy: Is it right for you?

If you have lasting menopausal symptoms that significantly impair your quality of life, your doctor may recommend longer-term treatment. Seek regular follow-up care. See your health care provider regularly to ensure that the benefits of hormone therapy continue to outweigh the risks, and for screenings such as mammograms and pelvic exams. Make healthy lifestyle choices. Include physical activity and exercise in your daily routine, eat a healthy diet, maintain a healthy weight, don’t smoke, limit alcohol, manage stress, and manage chronic health conditions such as high cholesterol or high blood pressure. If you haven’t had a hysterectomy and are using systemic estrogen therapy, you’ll also need a progestin.
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Health Fears Grow In Damascus With Reported Chemical Attack

Health Care IT: Making Good Progress

As much as any ordinary person can, Damascenes have also gotten used to the grim, daily news of unimaginable destruction and a seemingly endless death toll. “But that night, it all felt different,” said Khaled. “First of all, the shelling was louder than I remember at any time before. It’s as if the regime started using new missile batteries that are located right smack in the middle of the city. The sound was bigger, closer, heavier, louder, more scary.” Others described a similarly violent night. “Our windows shake all the time, but that night, starting around 2 a.m., was really particularly powerful.
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There, he heard a speaker present his vision for the integration of wireless tech in the health care sphere, allowing doctors to interact more meaningfully with patients. Inspired, Girish lent his background in software development to a new venture with two colleagues, one of whom is a physician himself. Their project, eClinicalWorks , was intended to digitize the communication and workflow between a doctor’s office and the rest of the health care sphere. eClinicalWorks is built entirely with its users in mind, using Girish’s cofounder Dr.
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Do Health Care Stocks Fall in the Fall?

Merely counting the number of up and down years doesn’t tell the full story, though. Seven to nine down years that were really bad could make those 11 to 13 up years look less positive. Source: YCharts. Source: YCharts.
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Wash. health exchange board delays vote on plans

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“The board wants to do everything in its power to ensure that when the exchange opens Oct. 1 we have as many carriers and participating plans as possible to provide options for residents,” exchange spokesman Michael Marchand said. After Kreidler’s decision, state Sen. Linda Evans Parlette, R-Wenatchee, issued a statement that called the dismissal of the prospective insurers before the exchange board could consider them a “step in the wrong direction.” “After all, don’t we want as many options as possible for people who are purchasing health insurance?” she wrote. Kreidler has said that some of those not approved couldn’t guarantee access to certain providers and hospitals, or for example, in the case of Molina, didn’t have an approved retail pharmacy. “I have a duty to protect consumers and to hold all insurers to the same standards,” Kreidler said in a written statement issued Wednesday. “There were substantial problems in the plans we rejected.” Kreidler said some of the plans didn’t have adequate access to transplant surgeons or to HIV/AIDS specialists, and that in some cases people would be required to drive more than 45 miles to see a cardiologist.
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Health insurance costs rise for employers and workers, survey finds

I think they are going in the right direction.” Rice says she hasnt had insurance for close to 10 years. Rice, a Democrat, left her state job to care for her children, including her son with cerebral palsy. Her husband, a self-employed house painter, cant afford coverage. Now, she says, the phone rings off the hook from bill collectors demanding payments on their $20,000 in medical debt from her husband’s chronic back pain and a knee surgery, and her migraines. We cant even file for bankruptcy, she says.
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Kentucky Health Workers Pitch Obamacare At State Fair Alongside Corn Dogs, Fried Kool-Aid

Last year, nearly half of covered workers were in such grandfathered health plans. The survey found that just over a third of employees are in grandfathered health plans now. Also Liberal groups to counter anti-Obama healthcare efforts in August Employers are also increasingly using wellness programs to reward employees who improve their health and penalize those that do not, a practice that is encouraged in the new law. Nearly all employers with more than 200 workers now run at least one wellness program, and more than half now report they offer biometric screenings to measure their employees health risks. This will be an important issue to watch next year, as employers will have more flexibility and could ask workers to pay more because of their lifestyles and health conditions, said Kaiser Vice President Gary Claxton, the reports lead investigator.
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Also on HuffPost: Loading Slideshow An Abnormal Pap Test Means You Have High-Risk HPV Pap tests are the commonly accepted screening to prevent cervical cancer. A doctor scrapes a cell culture from a woman’s cervix and then examines the cells for signs of abnormality. But just because a few of those cells appear abnormal, requiring further screening, doesn’t necessarily mean that you’ve got a cancer-causing strain of HPV — that’s only one potential cause. “The difference could be due to local irritation, a non-HPV infection, a low-risk HPV type, or even a mistake in the preparation of the cell sample,” writes the American Sexual Health Association. Condom Use Prevents HPV HPV is passed via skin contact, rather than bodily fluid. For that reason, condoms can lower the risk of the disease, but they are not a sufficiently preventive measure, as they are for viruses like HIV and bacteria like gonorrhea.
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British warship docks in Gibraltar amid Spain row

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The Spaniards say they have been cut off from rich fishing grounds, hurting their livelihoods. Spain has since imposed intense customs checks at the border to Gibraltar, leading to daily hours-long queues of cars. Prime Minister David Cameron described the border checks as “politically motivated” and has pressed the European Union to send observers to the border as soon as possible. It is the latest in a string of diplomatic rows over the self-governing British overseas territory, which measures just 6.8 square kilometres (2.6 square miles) and is home to about 30,000 people. Both Britain and Spain say the naval visits are unrelated to their differences over Gibraltar. With Madrid’s prior agreement, British helicopter and commando carrier HMS Illustrious on Sunday stopped at a Spanish naval base in Rota in southern Spain for a technical stop of several hours before leading naval exercises in the Mediterranean. The HMS Westminster, which was accompanied by two smaller support vessels also docking in Gibraltar, is also taking part in the naval exercise, codenamed Cougar ’13, which was planned long before the latest row broke out.
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Du Egypt in state of emergency, hundreds dead August 15, 2013 2:50 AM PDT Egypt is under a curfew and a state of emergency, one day after police smashed two Muslim Brotherhood protest camps. Hundreds were killed and thousands injured in the ensuing violence. (Aug. 15) Egyptians in NYC react to deadly clashes in Egypt, about 280 people killed August 14, 2013 7:45 PM PDT Egyptians in NYC react to deadly clashes in Egypt, about 280 people killed Emergency declared as around 150 killed in Egypt crackdown August 14, 2013 12:05 PM PDT CAIRO (AFP) – (AFP) – Egypt on Wednesday declared a state of emergency after a security force crackdown on two huge Cairo protests by supporters of ousted president Mohamed Morsi turned into a bloodbath that left around 150 people dead. Raw: Egypt Protesters Clash in Street Battles August 14, 2013 10:41 AM PDT Supporters and opponents of ousted Egyptian President Mohammed Morsi clashed on the streets of Alexandria hours after police attempted to clear Cairo protest camps. Street battles also erupted in Giza and other provinces. (Aug.
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Obama cancels U.S. military exercise with Egypt in wake of violence

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FAN OF CROSSFIT He also adheres to the no-frills strength and condition program called Crossfit, which is a series of timed, ever- changing physical challenges that he says are suitable for everyone. “I’m working with people who are 500 pounds (227 kg) and doing Crossfit on a regular basis,” said Harper, who described the approximately 20-minute workout as well-balanced. “To me Crossfit just completely makes sense (as long as) you work at your level doing the things you can do with proper coaching,” he explained. But Dr.
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Weight loss: I’ll drink to that

Foods that boost weight loss

The World Cancer Fund says that roughly 10% of all calories in the diet of those that drink come from alcohol. The next time you are dying to indulge, use this handy alcohol calorie counter to find out how many extra empty calories are in that drink. The bottom line according to this latest study: Drink moderately, and you will gain weight. But many variables were ignored in this latest study on diet and alcohol consumption food choices, health factors, exercise, etc. which leads to many unanswered questions. The extra weight gained could be from poor food choices, more snacking, a number of factors.
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Zuo Feng Zhang, a researcher at the University of Maryland Medical Center, recommends drinking two to three cups a day. 4. Green Smoothie. A mother named Katherine Natalia, lost 56 lbs and overcame a debilitating disease by drinking green smoothies everyday. So, what is a green smoothie?
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Four natural and cheap weight loss remedies

Fiber helps move unwanted waste out of the body to help decrease overall weight, remove harmful toxins that can cause bloating and tiredness, and can also help keep your heart in check. Your heart needs whole grains and enriched grains to help keep cholesterol in balance which can lead to a more efficient and healthier heart. Understanding that fiber and grains are necessary is a great step toward starting to eat healthy and truly change your diet. Some foods that are high in fiber are vegetables like greens and carrots, granola, whole grain cereals, and even whole grain bread for those bread lovers out there.
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Digestive System: Facts, Function & Diseases

The entire system from mouth to anus is about 30 feet (9 meters) long. Digestion begins with chewing. Teeth, which are part of the skeletal system, play a key role in digestion. In carnivores, teeth are designed for killing and breaking down meat. Herbivores teeth are made for grinding plants and other food to ease them through the digestion process.
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How your dog’s digestive system works

True herbivores have the ability to digest plant and vegetable cellulose and can rely on plants for complete nutrition. They have flat blunt teeth, which they use to grind cellulose and grain. Their jaws have the ability to move sideways and grind their food. An herbivore depends on a digestive system, which is very stable. The animal chooses almost every mouthful, with a view to maintaining stability within the chemical factory, which is its gut. All its instincts are tuned to this task. The changes, which occur in the feed available, are slow changes.
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