Women’s Health Center is now providing care to young girls and teenagers who are in their new Pediatric and Adolescent Gynecology in Iowa City.

Pediatric and adolescent gynecology is a subspecialty field that includes both common and uncommon gynecologic concerns for girls from birth to age 22. Care providers are trained to recognize what is normal and abnormal for infants, children and teenagers, how to examine girls in an age-appropriate, sensitive and reassuring way, and how to communicate with children and their parents.

A good Adolescent Gynecology Clinic provides a welcoming place for patients seeking a focus on gynecological issues in their age group and also provides a subspecialty clinic to which community and hospital-based primary care providers can refer complicated problems.

The clinic staff also schedule wellness visits with the gynecologist to provide the opportunity for an adolescent to discuss the unique and complex medical, social, emotional, sexual, educational and nutritional issues they are faced with in the teen years. Read More

Living in an air polluted city places a person at greater risk of early death than living in the radioactive zone around according to a study conducted by scientists at the “Centre for Ecology and Hydrology in Great Britain”.

It’s been found that increased cancer rates among this group led to a 1 percent higher risk of premature death. By contrast, residents of air polluted Delhi are 2.8 percent more likely to die from pollution-related heart and lung disease than residents of villages, the least polluted places. People who lived with a smoker had a 1. Read More

Agriculture is a process of producing food, feed, fiber and many other desired products by the nurturing of certain plants and the raising of domestic animals.
The practice of agriculture is also known as “farming. Subsistence farming, who farms a small area with limited resource inputs, and produces only enough food to meet the needs of his/her family.
At the other end is commercial intensive agriculture, including industrial agriculture. Such farming involves large fields and/or numbers of animals, large resource inputs (pesticides, fertilizers, etc. Read More