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Women: Health tips for your 40s
Focused on Health - August 2013
by Adelina Espat
Life changes with every decade. And so does your body.
Just as you set personal milestones, you should also set health goals for every stage of life. Use these tips to help you look and feel your best in your 40s.
Maintain a healthy weight. As we get older, our metabolism slows down. This is especially true for women after age 40, who may have a hard time maintaining the weight they had in their 20s and 30s.
Making healthy food choices and staying active every day can help jumpstart your metabolism so you can keep off unwanted pounds.
Schedule a mammogram. Don't put off your yearly mammogram. You should get one every year starting at age 40. It's one of the best ways to find breast cancer early.
Getting your first mammogram can be stressful. But it helps when you know what to expect. Use our mammogram guide – it'll walk you through the steps.
Snuff out the cigarette. More women die from lung cancer each year than breast cancer. The cause: smoking. Nearly 20% of women age 25 to 44 smoke.
Want to quit? You are not alone – 70% of women who smoke say they want to quit. Get help and support. If you're still having trouble, cut back as much as possible and make your home smoke-free.
Get more health tips for all ages
"Practicing these healthy behaviors is important for all women, regardless of age," says Therese Bevers, M.D., medical director of MD Anderson's Cancer Prevention Center . "So take note of all of these tips — even the ones directed toward women older or younger than you."
And talk to your doctor about other cancer screening exams, like the Pap test and clinical breast exam. Exams also are available for those at increased risk for ovarian, endometrial, lung and skin cancer.
Your doctor can help you learn about your personal risk for cancer, and tell you what exams you should get and how often.
Women's health tips for your 20s
Women's health tips for your 30s
Women's health tips for your 50s and older
Women's screening exam by age checklist


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Posted: 5:24 pm Monday, April 19th, 2010
Florida House passes Medicaid reform
By Stacey Singer
Under House Bill 7223, participation in Medicaid HMOs would be mandatory for most of Florida's 2.7 million residents on Medicaid. (At present, 1.9 million already get their care that way.)
The Agency for Health Care Administration would divide the state into six large regions, with Palm Beach County's 100,000 Medicaid recipients being lumped in with Broward, Glades, Hendry, Martin, Okeechobee, and St. Lucie counties in Region V (five). For our region, the state would have to certify between four and seven providers, one of which would have to be a physician service network.
The state would certify plans allowed to compete for the patients' business. The plans would have to meet certain requirements. For example, the House bill says plans must maintain a network of providers "adequate to meet the needs of its clients."
Florida's Medicaid costs have grown dramatically over the past decade, to the point where the entitlement will chew up 1 in every 4 dollars of the budget. With the implementation of the federal health overhaul, hundreds of thousands more Floridians will qualify for Medicaid.
By pushing Medicaid customers into HMOs, the legislature hopes to limit the growth of its per patient spending. The state would pay the insurers a capped rate per covered individual.
As for consumer protections, once a year, consumers would have 30 days to select a plan, and 90 days to switch plans if they were unhappy with their initial choice. If they didn't choose a plan, the state would choose on on their behalf.
Plans would have to commit to a five year contract with the state and would have to give 180 days' notice if they decided to drop out of the business. "Subscriber assistance panels" would be set up to hear customer grievances.
The plans would be required to offer kidney dialysis services, dental care, optometry, hospital care, oxygen and other respiratory services, substance abuse treatment and mental health care, and even transportation to services.
The plans would have to develop incentive programs to reward healthy behaviors, and would be encouraged to spend between 85 percent and 92 percent of its state revenues on the provision of care.
The plans have to offer nursing home and long-term care benefits.
Will the switch to managed care actually save money? Committee analysis of the bill says AHCA will require more than $3 million next year to begin implementing it. The managed care medical program would have to be implemented by Oct. 1, 2013. The long-term-care element for people over age 65 must be in place by Oct. 1, 2012.
The Senate has already passed a different Medicaid reform bill, so both bills must now move to a conference committee.
But they're still not a done deal. Gov. Charlie Crist will have a say, and lastly, the U.S. government will have to decide whether to grant a waiver that will allow the bill to be implemented. The bill requires at least one public hearing in each of the six regions as part of that waiver application.
About the Author
Stacey Singer has been writing about health, science, biotech, consumer issues and government for nearly two decades. She's the founder of a non-profit group called Journalists in Transition which supports mid-career media professionals. In the 1990s she was a founding staffer ofThe Moscow Times, an English language newspaper that chronicled Russian life after the breakup of the former Soviet Union. A graduate of the University of Wisconsin, Madison, her education has focused on both science writing and American industrial history.
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More powerful than other heroes the Legendary Titans are invoked with Amulet cards that both Good and Evil Seekers can command. Collect all 4!
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Stand Up Comedy ascends the uphill corner of the Hallowed Hall and is listed as 42 in the Gillett guide. Start in the slot and face climb 40 feet or so to a complex series of foot transitions that trend right, toward but not on the arete. Frankly, this not a route we are ever likely to repeat. The rock was often friable and crumbling away, the moves had no pleasing kinesthetic character at all. If contrasted to routes of a similar grade on Devil's Head, the most reasonable comparable rock and elevation, this line does not fare well. While I liked the concept of the route a lot, I did not enjoy the climbing. Furthermore, the best plan, if you intend to do Stand Up Comedy, is to bring the second up to the belay and rap to the ground. Lowering off will just about trash a rope.
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