Mammograms and Your Heart: Busy Woman’s Guide to a Healthy Heart

October is Breast Cancer Awareness Month – but it is also a time to address heart disease as well. Many women see just one doctor each year, an ObGyn. Don’t neglect your heart when you make your visit this year! Not only can a mammogram detect early breast cancer, but it could also predict early…

Mammogram for Your Heart?

Yet another reason to schedule your mammogram! We all know mammograms can detect early breast cancer, but did you know it could also predict early heart disease? Along with detecting a lump, mammograms can also detect calcium deposits in the blood vessels of the breast, an indicator of early heart disease. Calcium deposits detected on…

Avoiding the Mammogram?

Make your appointment! Just in case you haven’t heard — October is Breast Cancer Awareness Month. If the pink everywhere hasn’t clued you in, please let me remind you…it’s time to pay attention ladies! I was shocked to learn only half of women who should get annual mammograms actually get them,even when their insurance pays…

Courage Challenge: Stop Putting It Off

September’s Embrace & Engage Challenge What are you putting off? I am willing to bet each one of us is putting off some medical test or procedure. the mammogram? the colonoscopy? the annual exam and pap smear? having your cholesterol checked? having that “funny spot” on your skin checked? For me, it is the mammogram.…