Financial Help Available for Breast and Cervical Cancer Screenings

The Lane County Breast and Cervical Cancer Program is part of the National Breast and Cervical Cancer Early Detection Program. The program helps financially challenged, uninsured, and medically underserved women gain access to lifesaving screening programs for early detection of breast and cervical cancers. If cancer is detected, the program [Read More]

Women’s Health News in Brief

Because we understand that knowledge is power, we encourage our patients to become informed about health issues. Here are brief news nuggets about health issues, along with Web sites for more in-depth information (FMI.) It’s important to note that Women’s Care physicians don’t necessarily endorse these findings. Patients and doctors [Read More]

Health Information Resources

Here are some useful online information resources to help you research health issues. We’ll continue this list in the next few issues of Healthy Perspectives. (Note: This list is intended as a general reference, and doesn’t imply endorsement by Women’s Care physicians of these resources or of information provided by [Read More]

Health News in Brief

Because we understand that knowledge is power, we encourage our patients to become informed about health issues. Here are some brief news nuggets about health issues, along with Web sites for more in-depth information (FMI.) It’s important to note that Women’s Care physicians don’t necessarily endorse these findings. *A vaccine [Read More]

Using Healthy Skepticism in the Information Age

One day newspaper headlines herald a study that finds drinking coffee protects against cancer. An Internet search reveals a different study with evidence that the brew is bad for you. In this age of instant and ever-changing information, what’s a wise woman to think? When it comes to medical matters, [Read More]

Welcome to Women’s Care’s new website!

We hope you find our new site easier to navigate, more compatible with a wider range of desktop computers, and filled with more useful information for our patients. Among other improvements, the top navigation bar now features a "mega drop" where all pages on the site are just one click [Read More]