Weight loss can help relieve symptoms. Medications, such as oral contraceptives, medicines that decrease insulin resistance or medicines to aid ovulation (when an egg is released from the ovary), can be used to treat PCOS.

Having PCOS increases your lifetime risks of metabolic disease, type 2 diabetes and heart disease. The condition also can increase your risk of getting endometrial hyperplasia (when the lining of the uterus becomes too thick) or endometrial cancer (in the lining of the uterus).

A primary care physician, or provider, is a doctor or advanced practice provider (APP) who isable to care for a patients needs. This provider is the first access point into the healthcare system who can manage a patients chronic conditions, recommend preventive care and offer referrals to specialists.

Preventive care helps detect or prevent serious diseases and medical problems before they become major. Preventive care can include vaccines or screenings for breast, cervical or prostate cancer, for example. Many people do not realize that there are certain age ranges that screenings should take place. For example, pap smears should begin at age 21 for women, diabetes screenings should begin in your 30s and yearly cholesterol screenings should take place around age 40.

Sexually transmitted diseases, or STDs, (which many medical professionals now refer to as sexually transmitted infections, or STIs) are more common than you might think. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) estimate that one in five people in the US have an STI.

Fact: For people who are exposed to more partners, if they're not using protection like condoms, for example, their risk of transmitting or acquiring an STI from somebody is higher than someone in a monogamous relationship. However, it only takes one exposure to acquire an STI.

Fact: For most women who acquire an STI during pregnancy, the overwhelming majority have a healthy, normal pregnancy. However, certain infections, especially viral infections, can cause severe issues with pregnancy, including fetal demise and birth defects. If you have active lesions whenever you deliver vaginally, you can transmit the STI to the baby. HPV also can cause genital warts that can either block the birth canal or affect the cervix.

Fact: In many cases, men don't have any symptoms, whereas females are more likely to have symptoms of certain STIs. It depends on their physiology. Common symptoms of STIs in men include pain and burning with urination, redness around the urethra and urethral discharge. Common symptoms of STIs in women include vaginal discharge, pain and burning with urination and sometimes vaginal bleeding, inflammation in the vagina and vaginal odors.

Fact: Most are manageable, but they may not be curable. Gonorrhea and chlamydia are both treatable and curable, whereas herpes and HIV are not curable, but they are manageable and can be suppressed with different medications.

Fact: A big cause of infertility in women is untreated chlamydia and gonorrhea infections. In some cases, STIs lead to pelvic inflammatory disease (PID), which is basically an infected fluid collection involving the fallopian tubes.

Fact: Cold sores are caused by the herpes simplex virus (HSV). HSV-1 as an oral virus that is passed with skin-to-skin contact from one person to another, such as kissing. HSV-2 is thought to cause similar lesions in the genital area. Over time, that distinction has become less important, and people can get HSV-1 or HSV-2 in both the mouth and genital area. HSV is a sexually transmitted infection that can be passed with sexual intercourse but doesn't necessarily require intercourse.

In 2021, Phelps Health received the Mission: Lifeline Gold Plus Receiving Quality Achievement Award for implementing specific quality improvement measures outlined by the American Heart Association for the treatment of patients who suffer severe heart attacks.

In 2021, Phelps Health received the American Heart Associations Silver Plus Get With The Guidelines-Stroke Quality Achievement Award for itscommitment to ensuring stroke patients receive the most appropriate treatment according to nationally recognized, research-based guidelines.

Phelps Health is a Level III Stroke Center in Missouri. According to the Missouri Department of Health and Senior Services (DHSS), a Level III Stroke Center plays an important role in providing access into the system and important patient care in nonmetropolitan areas.

Phelps Health is a Level III STEMI Center in Missouri. STEMI refers to a specific type of heart attack. According to the Missouri Department of Health and Senior Services (DHSS), a Level III STEMI Center plays an important role in providing access into the healthcare system and patient care in nonmetropolitan areas.

In 2020, Phelps Health Echo-Vascular Laboratory located in Rolla, MO, wasgranted a three-year term of accreditation by the Intersocietal Accreditation Commission (IAC) in echocardiography in the areaof adult transthoracic.

The Phelps Health Delbert Day Cancer Institute received accreditation from the American Society of Radiation Oncology for adopting procedures to encourage safety and quality of care in compliance with the standards of the Accreditation Program for Excellence (APEx) May 2019 to May 2023.

The American Diabetes Association (ADA) announced in 2019 the recognition of Phelps Health's Diabetes Self-Management Education and Support (DSMES) through the Education Recognition Program (ERP). The Phelps Health DSMES service was originally recognized in 2005.

In 2022, Phelps Health was recognized by CareChex, an informational service of Quantros, Inc., asbeing inthe top 10% in the nation,region and state for medical excellence in major orthopedic surgery and in joint replacement. Phelps Health also was recognized asbeing inthe top 10% in the nation andregion for patient safetyin cardiac care.

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