TEPAS Breast Cancer Center Host Support Group

Dr. Emran Imami

TEPAS Breast Center, a Central Florida regional comprehensive women’s diagnostic breast center that provides screening and diagnosing breast problems, hosts a support group the second Wednesday of every month at 6 p.m. at the TEPAS Breast Center, 1140 Broadband Drive in Melbourne, Florida.

Central Florida UroGynecology Grand Opening March 15

Dr. Marja Sprock

BREVARD COUNTY, FLORIDA – Marja Sprock, MD, FACOG, will celebrate the Grand Opening of her new practice, Central Florida UroGynecology, in Rockledge on March 15. Dr. Sprock’s new office is located just off US Hwy. 1, and close to the Fiske exit off I-95.

Vaginal Rejuvenation Procedure Minimally Invasive

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Cosmetic surgery has grown in popularity throughout the world; however, women remain hesitant to discuss their concerns about vaginal looseness, enlarged or irregular labia or loss of sexual satisfaction.

Pelvic Organ Prolapse Common Among Older Women

Dr. Ralph Zipper

PELVIC ORGAN PROLAPSE is a group of disorders encompassing the hernias of the female pelvic organs.

Red Hot Mamas Series: What’s In It for Me?

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BREVARD COUNTY, FLORIDA – Health First Physicians Dr. Vanessa Dance will present the second installment of the new “Red Hot Mamas” Series on Wednesday, Oct. 21 at the Cape Canaveral Hospital Medical Plaza Conference Center.

‘Detrusor Overactivity’ Affects Many Women

SPECIAL EXERCISES such as Kegel exercises have a low success rate in treating stress incontinence when performed without the involvement of a physical therapist with unique training in pelvic floor biofeedback therapy.

BREVARD COUNTY, FLORIDA – Stress incontinence is a type of urinary incontinence caused by increases in abdominal pressure. Women with stress incontinence typically have leakage of urine with activities such as swinging a golf club, playing tennis, jumping, bending, coughing, laughing, yelling, or brisk walking.

Many Women Are Plagued By Overactive Bladder

Ralph Zipper, MD

MANY WOMEN are plagued on a daily basis by frequency of urination, excessive nighttime urination, urgency of urination, and urinary incontinence associated with the sensation of needing to urinate.

Menopause Never Goes Away

WOMEN MAY HAVE different signs or symptoms at menopause. That’s because estrogen is used by many parts of your body. So, changes in how much estrogen you have can cause assorted symptoms. But, that doesn’t mean you will have all, or even most, of them. In fact, some of the signs that happen around the time of menopause may really be a result of growing older, not changes in estrogen.

MENOPAUSE, by definition, arrives on the day of a woman’s final episode of vaginal bleeding and never goes away. That woman is forever in menopause.

New Technology Advances Help Varicose Veins

WITH RECENT ADVANCES in technology, it is now possible to treat varicose veins in the physician’s office using only local anesthetic.  The procedure generally takes only one to two hours, and the patient is encouraged to walk immediately after.

IT’S ESTIMATED that up to 72 percent of females and 42 percent of adult males will develop varicose veins by the age of 60.

New Research Provides Early Stage Breast Cancer Treatment Choices

Dr. Michael Lane

MOST WOMEN who undergo mammography will not need any additional testing or invasive procedures. In approximately 20 percent of women, an abnormality will be found requiring either more imaging and /or biopsy.

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