Before I write about yet another reason to break the habit, and in
the interest of full disclosure, I will admit that my family is a
no-smoking household. Neither my husband nor I are smokers and we
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This may not come from my 7 years of medical training for a career
in pediatrics, but after our first big family trip (i.e. it
involved an airplane) and being the parents of 3 children, I feel
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Some studies seem incredibly silly and leave me wondering if
researchers were at a loss for what to do with grant money. But, as
a social scientist myself, I can’t help but to be intrigued by even
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I think I have done a fairly decent job of keeping myself and my
family healthy...we eat organic when possible, stay away from
products made with PBAs, use paint in the house with low HOVs, use
salt
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Whether or not someone is actually deemed to be cool sounds like
stuff of playground gossip and, in fact, it is. But recently a
group of social scientists at the University of Rochester Medical
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Doctor avoiders, we all know and love them. Trust me, I understand
when inertia has kept you away from the doctor and it feels kind of
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During the course of a physical exam I have with an adolescent, the
routine discussion of drug use will make its way into the
conversation. Frankly, if it didn’t occur, I wouldn’t be doing my
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A less invasive way to improve the lives of those suffering from
Uterine Fibroids: One in five women may have fibroids during their
childbearing years, and fibroids are present in half of all women
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An ectopic pregnancy, also called eccysis, occurs when a fertilized
egg implants itself outside of the uterus. Typically it will embed
in the fallopian tubes. Around 1% of pregnancies are ectopic.
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I am currently traveling outside of the country for work. It got me
thinking about what could be some common pregnancy complications
outside of the USA. Rubella, also called German measles, has
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