Folic Acid Awareness Week begins the second week of January and ends 7 days later, but the potential for folic acid deficiencies, especially among pregnant women, is something to pay attention to every day of the year. These concerns also tie into another awareness campaign during January, Birth Defects Prevention Month. This campaign seeks to […]
January is Cervical Health Awareness Month. This yearly awareness campaign aims to encourage women to talk with their doctor about their sexual health, and to ask about testing, prevention, and treatment options for HPV and cervical cancer. Each year 13,000 women develop cervical cancer as a result of being infected with the human papillomavirus (HPV). […]
Cancer stinks. Personally, I’ve had 11 people in my family with 16 different types of cancer. My sister battled a rare sarcoma when she was a baby and lost her arm to the disease when she was only 5 years old (no pity please, she’s perfectly normal). My point is, cancer is cruel! With October […]
