Women's Health News

by Nancy Mills

Since I'm always in the market for good advice about nutrition, supplements and complementary medicine, I was thrilled to find out about Dr. Judy Paley's Femail Health Newsletter. Judy writes about women's health like a friend who is talking to you over a cup of tea. And she is candid about her own struggles to figure out the best combination of vitamins, herbs and foods for her own midlife body.

According to her website, "Dr. Judy Paley is a board-certified internist with a large private practice in Denver, Colorado since 1982. She has particular interests in women's health and "mid-life maintenance" or everything you need to know to maintain good health through middle-age and beyond." She says the newsletter is
"the product of years of idle scheming as I plowed through my weekly stacks of medical magazines." She wanted to share what she was learning with as many women as she could...and the (free) newsletter is the result. Take a look and let us know what you think!

I also heard recently from one of our producers, Gonca Sonmez. Gonca sent me some information about an Educational Thyroid Forum coming up on June 26 in Boston, coinciding with the Annual Meeting of the Endocrine Society. The Forum's sponsors say that women over 50 have a one in ten chance of developing hypothyroidism. According to Dr. Lawrence Wood, President of the Thyroid Foundation of America, thyroid disorders tend to run in families and there are more than nine million women and four million men with unrecognized thyroid dysfunction. For more information, call 617-534-1500.