Women’s Health Articles

Choose The Right Care for Your Birth: Consider Hospital-Based Certified Nurse Midwives

The essence of midwifery care is to promote physiologic birth, recognizing when interventions may be necessary and fostering shared decision-making with patients. At Our Lady of Lourdes Women’s & Children’s Hospital, our certified nurse midwife program brings this...

How Women Can Listen to their Bodies and Hormones for Best Health

Hormones and the roles they play in women’s health are having a moment on social media, but the claims, quips and memes may do more harm than good. “Just because it’s on the internet doesn’t make it true,” says Karroll Payne, MD, an obstetrician and gynecologist with...

7 Ways Women Can Prioritize Their Health

Women make time for so much in life – organizing children’s after-school activities, helping coworkers with difficult projects and ensuring everyone in your family keeps up with routine medical care, to name a few. To be able to devote time to those things, however,...

Why Are Bad Habits So Hard to Kick?

Whether it’s living a sedentary lifestyle, eating unhealthy foods, abusing drugs or alcohol, or not getting enough sleep, almost everyone has at least one habit that’s affecting their health and well-being. Unfortunately, bad habits are hard to kick precisely because...