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Palliative Care: Bringing Comfort
Palliative care focuses on improving a patient's quality of life by improving the symptoms of his or her illness, such as pain, shortness of breath, and difficulty sleeping. It's used with a variety of ailments, including cancer, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, kidney failure, or congestive heart failure.
Pap Tests for Older Women
Older women still need health checkups and screening tests, including regular gynecological exams.
Parenting Déjà vu: Raising Your Grandchildren
About 4.9 million children live in households headed by grandparents. These are commonly called "grandfamilies" or "second families." Two out of three of your fellow grandparents handling this responsibility are older than 50, and the children are often under age 6.
Parents: Check Toys for Lead
You may have heard reports about lead paint causing recalls of children’s toys. While federal officials and health experts work to fix the problem, what can you do to keep your kids safe? First, you can check your child's toys against those listed as being recalled due to lead issues.
Parents-to-Be Must Communicate
Few parents-to-be receive training for the much more challenging and long-term tasks--becoming good parents and remaining close and loving partners in the face of new stresses and strains as their family grows.
Peach Berry Crisp
Fresh peaches and blueberries are nestled under a topping flavored with ginger and lemon.
Pear and Quinoa Salad
A salad that's packed with protein.
Pecan-Crusted Baked Tilapia with Cherry Lemon Balsamic Sauce
The sauces gives this nutty fish a distinctive zing.
Peewee Pizzas
Peewee pizzas are easy for you to make on your own when you get home from school.
Pelvic Inflammatory Disease (PID)
Pelvic inflammatory disease or PID is an infection of a woman’s reproductive tract. Scar tissue grows between internal organs leading to ongoing pelvic pain. It can also lead to ectopic pregnancy.
Perimenopause
Perimenopause is the time around menopause when your body begins to change. You become less fertile and hormone levels fluctuate.
Peutz-Jeghers Syndrome and Cancer
People with this syndrome have dark moles around the mouth, nose, and eyes, as well as multiple polyps in the intestines.