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This is general information and not specific medical advice. It does not and should not replace diagnosis or treatment by your healthcare provider.
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How to Keep Your Vagina Happy and Healthy All Summer Long - Joylux

How to Keep Your Vagina Happy and Healthy All Summer Long

Ah, the summer. Sunshine, pool days, and backyard BBQ’s with friends and family. It's probably the best time of year. But as the temperature rises, our bodies can get uncomfortably hot and sweaty, even down there. Hot and humid environments can increase the risk of vaginal infections during the summer...

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How to Nurture Your Relationship When You Have Zero Time - Joylux

How to Nurture Your Relationship When You Have Zero Time

We live in the age of compulsive busyness. We run from meeting to meeting, deadline to deadline, school gates to home and back — leaving little time for much else. At the end of the day, we're exhausted. And though we never mean to put our relationships on the backburner,...

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Debunking the Double Standard on Aging in Men vs. Women - Joylux

Debunking the Double Standard on Aging in Men vs. Women

Can you name a single gray-haired female CEO or member of Congress? Neither can we. Despite the fact that celebrities like Diane Keaton and Jamie Lee Curtis are widening our view of what it means to be a 'silver fox', there is still a massive double standard on how men...

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Get Love, Give Love: 4 Meaningful Ways to Celebrate Father’s Day - Joylux

Get Love, Give Love: 4 Meaningful Ways to Celebrate Father’s Day

Many of us were fortunate enough to have had the support of fathers and grandfathers during our childhood — men who showed us what it was to be kind, generous and loving. Men who were always there for us. You may be fortunate enough today to have a husband or...

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Meet the Women Closing the Medical Research Gender Gap - Joylux

Meet the Women Closing the Medical Research Gender Gap

Raise your hand if you've ever felt dismissed or condescended to by a medical professional? As women, far too many of us have had this experience. And due to a longstanding bias in the medical research community, female patients are still not taken seriously. In her book, Doing Harm, journalist...

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5 Things You're Too Afraid to Ask Your Doctor - Joylux

5 Things You're Too Afraid to Ask Your Doctor

We're well into the 21st century and it's still not ok to talk about vaginal health. Far too many women are still terrified to use words like vulva and vagina, let alone ask their doctor about what's going on in their sex lives. And to be honest, it's completely understandable....

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