class="pagetitle"> Women’s Health
Balance Disorders
Presented by: Specialists from the Stanford Balance Center March 17, 2011 Watch the video Lecture Overview: Balance problems can stem from dizziness, light-headedness, weakness, or lack of coordination, and often can lead to falls. It’s a pervasive problem but one that has not been thoroughly studied, perhaps in part because of the difficulties in determining [...]
Read More..>>Contributions of Surgery to Breast Cancer Survivorship
Presented by: Irene Wapnir, MD Associate Professor, Surgery Stanford University Medical Center Date: January 13, 2011 Watch the video Lecture Overview: A new focus on survivor’s quality of life has led to improvements in mastectomy techniques, reconstruction, and preserving fertility. One look at the statistics surrounding breast cancer shows that this disease touches innumerable lives. [...]
Read More..>>New Insights into Breast Cancer Treatment and Survivorship
Moderator: Frederick M. Dirbas, MD Physician Leader, Stanford Cancer Center’s Breast Disease Management Group Thursday, October 7, 2010 Each year more than 190,000 American women are diagnosed with breast cancer, the second-most common type of cancer in the United States (skin cancer is first). As research and innovations in technology and treatments enable earlier detection [...]
Read More..>>Pelvic Floor Disorders
Presented by: Craig Comiter, MD Associate Professor, Urology Kim Rhoads, MD Assistant Professor, Surgery Eric Sokol, MD Assistant Professor, Obstetrics & Gynecology May 14, 2009 Lecture Overview: Pelvic floor disorders, including incontinence and prolapse, are extremely common Causes range from genetics and gender to pregnancy, hysterectomy, obesity, and age Fecal incontinence can be caused by [...]
Read More..>>How to Mend a Broken Heart
Presented by: Natalie Rasgon, MD, PhD Professor, Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences Director, Center for Neuroscience in Women’s Health Stanford University Medical Center Lecture Overview: Women are twice as likely as men to develop depressive disorder Depression is a risk factor for heart disease because it increases adrenaline and stress hormones Physicians need to recognize the [...]
Read More..>>Healing And Feeling: Stress, Support, and Breast Cancer
Presented by: David Spiegel, MD Co-chair, Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences Stanford University Medical Center Lecture Overview: Integrative, or complementary, medicine focuses on the interactions among the brain, mind, body and behavior and on the ways in which emotional, mental, social, spiritual and behavioral factors can directly affect health The stress of dealing with [...]
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