Helen Cavasin, MD

09/12/2016

Believe me, I know you hate your annual. But at least you can get a little humor out of it, too!

12/18/2012

12/18/2012

One more excuse for not being able to stop smoking goes out the window...

Study shows confusion about rule making treatment available with no out-of-pocket cost to members.

12/03/2012

WHO recommends that couples get tested for HIV – and counselled – together. Receiving voluntary HIV testing and counselling as a couple means that both partners get tested together, receive their results and share their status with the support of a counsellor.
A range of prevention, treatment and support options can then be discussed and decided upon together.

Read more: http://www.who.int/features/2012/living_hiv/en/index.html

12/03/2012

A caregiver is anyone who provides help to another person in need. Usually, the person receiving care has a condition such as dementia, cancer, or...

12/03/2012

Today, we mourn the death of a 14-year-old girl who was beheaded in Afghanistan after refusing to become a child bride. http://bit.ly/Xj5y9p

On Day 9 of 16 Days of Activism Against Gender Violence, add your voice to our petition to end violence against women and girls: http://bit.ly/TC3irm

12/03/2012

Exciting new changes are afoot! Dr Nason and I are now joining with Drs Steier and Murphy to all be Hendersonville Obstetrics and Gynecology. We will soon be moving as well, across the hall! We look forward to continuing to care for you under our new practice name.

09/21/2012

About 15 percent of high schoolers with cellphones said they had sent sexually explicit texts or images, according to a survey in Los Angeles. More than half of the students reported knowing someone who sexted.

09/21/2012

I find this a disturbing progerss in medical knowledge. Not that infertility is not a sad, emotional, heart-wrenching experience for teh family that is affected. But uterine transplants to be able to carry a pregnancy can be incredbly high risk. While I don't like the idea of mothers suffering, I also think that the financial, social, and physical complications for both the mother and baby would be incredible. A transplanted uterus would increase maternal risks of pre-eclampsia and other medical conditions, and the baby would be likely to be pre-term with possible uterine vascular insufficiency, growth retardation, placental abruption, and perhaps even extremely preterm.

The Swedish team transplanted uteruses from two women in their 50s to their daughters, and an Indiana group is recruiting women willing to undergo womb transplants in this country. It's the latest frontier in a field launched in 1954 with a successful kidney transplant. But one expert cautions again...

09/14/2012

For $3 and a swipe of your credit card, you can buy a pregnancy test from a dispenser in a bar in Mankato, Minn.

09/14/2012

Thought provoking.

My husband and I agreed that we would terminate a fetus with genetic defects. We're too old to parent a special-needs child.

08/27/2012

Photographer Stephanie Sinclair captured child marriage in India, Yemen, Afghanistan, Nepal and Ethiopia on camera over an eight-year period. Here are the stories she found: http://bit.ly/Rfm31X