Take Charge of Your Health with Medical Screenings
by Darra McMullen, GHWCC and Women’s Health Network writer/researcher With the observance of National Women’s Health Week (May 8 th . – 14 th .) in our very recent rear view mirror, now is the perfect time to make a personal health plan and implement it into our everyday lives. During National Women’s Health Week, most of us probably read or heard, in a piecemeal fashion, about various health issues effecting women, but we may not have sat down and tried to coalesce our tidbits of information into a cohesive body of information from which to make a plan of action. Because we at the GHWCC encourage all women to care for their whole selves, the information that follows is intended as a quick checklist of overall health basics to help us focus our attentions on improving overall health – including in areas that we may often gloss over or ignore completely. To begin, we’ll start with the more commonly discus...
