Nancy Monson
Writer, interviewer, editor
Features, white papers, blog posts, infographics, summaries, slideshows, travel guides, ghostwriting. Food/nutrition, health, pharma, medicine (ob/gyn, psych, neurol), pets, crafts, lifestyle, travel.
PROJECTS
Harvard Health Letter
Get Healthy, Get a Dog: The health benefits of canine companionship
Medical writer of this innovative Harvard consumer white paper on the connection between humans and dogs. Owning a dog can prompt you to be more physically active — have leash, will walk. It can also help you be calmer, more mindful, and more present in your life, make kids more active, secure, and responsible, improve the lives of older individuals, and make you feel more more social and less isolated.
moretimetotravel.com
Sailing the Rhine from Basel to Amsterdam with Viking River Cruises
Sailing the Rhine from Basel to Amsterdam with Viki...
moretimetotravel.com
Say OM: Compelling justifications for a pampered spa vacation ...
Say OM: Compelling justifications for a pampered spa vacation
moretimetotravel.com
Iceland awaits the over-50 traveler - More Time to Travel
Iceland awaits the over-50 traveler - More Time to ...
Delaware Media Group
City Guide to Washington DC for attendees of a medical convention
Writer of city guide for attendees of Consortium of Multiple Sclerosis Centers' annual meeting.
Delaware Media Group
City Guide to Indianapolis for attendees of a medical convention
Writer of a city preview guide for attendees of the Consortium of Multiple Sclerosis Centers' annual meeting.
HealthCentral
What You Should Eat After 50
As we age, our nutritional needs change. But it’s never too late to clean up your diet and improve your health. In fact, if you eat right and exercise regularly, you can be healthier at 65 than you were at 45, says Christine Rosenbloom, Ph.D., R.D.N., F.A.N.D., nutrition professor emeritus at Georgia State University and lead author of the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics’ new book, Food & Fitness After 50. HealthCentral.com asked Dr. Rosenbloom for some common-sense tips for healthy eating...
HealthCentral
How Hobbies Can Reduce Stress in MS
Many people with MS say that stress exacerbates symptoms like fatigue and pain. Although there is no research that definitively links stress with MS symptoms, according to psychologist and MS expert Fred Foley, Ph.D., author of the National MS Society’s Taming Stress in Multiple Sclerosis, there is also no question that reducing stress can help you to better cope with your illness. Here’s how having a hobby can help your mental health.
Beyond solutions like exercise and meditation, research c...
contemporaryobgyn.modernmedicine.com
Brain activation differs in women with HSDD and those with normal sexual function
Studies of hypoactive sexual desire disorder (HSDD) traditionally have focused on behavioral and biologic components of the disease. A new multicenter study, however, sheds light on brain activation patterns during sexual arousal in women with the condition.
Conducted by Woodard et al.1 and published in Fertility and Sterility, the report is based on results from use of functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) to compared oxygen metabolism and blood flow throughout the brain in women with...
contemporaryobgyn.modernmedicine.com
BV increases risk for adverse pregnancy outcomes
Pre-pregnancy visits should include vaginal examinations to rule out bacterial vaginosis (BV), as well as oral examinations to assess for periodontal disease, according to a prospective Finnish study. Both infections have been linked to adverse pregnancy outcomes.
Through newspaper ads, researchers recruited 252 healthy women who desired pregnancy and had stopped using contraception. All of the women were white and had regular menstrual cycles and were not pregnant at the time of entry. Women...
contemporaryobgyn.modernmedicine.com
Infertility and the vaginal microbiome
Healthy women have higher levels of protective lactobacilli in their vaginal microbiome than women with infertility, according to a recent cross-sectional study conducted in India by Babu et al. The study was undertaken to investigate the role of bacteria in the vaginal microbiome and the incidence of asymptomatic vaginitis and bacterial vaginosis (BV) in relation to infertility.
The researchers enrolled 200 non-pregnant women between 18 and 45 years of age who presented to Sri Lakshmi Naraya...
contemporaryobgyn.modernmedicine.com
Women’s impressions of BV episodes, recurrences, and care
Women with bacterial vaginosis (BV) are both frustrated and dissatisfied with treatments for the condition and its likelihood of recurring. They also expressed dissatisfaction with the inconsistency of advice and information, misdiagnosis, and insensitive and dismissive attitudes of clinicians in regard to BV, according to an Australian study published in the journal PLOS One. In addition, many women have turned to self-help remedies, including vaginal douching, to manage the condition.
Despi...
USA TODAY
A Clear and Present Danger
This article details cybersecurity risks for Americans, such as the fallout from the Equifax hack.