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December 9, 2009
I had the privilege of caring for pregnant mothers for over 20 years (delivering over 1500 babies). During that tenure, I would tell moms, “I do […]
December 9, 2009
Nicotine patches and gum seem to be safe and effective in pregnant women, according to a new study. Such patches and gum have been shown to […]
December 9, 2009
MedScape is reporting “An important head-to-head study of smoking cessation therapies shows that combination treatment with a nicotine patch plus lozenge almost doubles the rate of […]
December 8, 2009
Here is the Table of Contents for the December edition of our Family Newsletter: Family Update Great Christmas Gift Ideas Personalized and Autographed Books Available Several […]
December 8, 2009
A HealthDay News report led me to some new research that has found that although far more caregivers now place babies on their backs to sleep […]
December 8, 2009
No treatment is more emblematic of the world of alternative therapies for autism than chelation. The influential autism recovery group, Defeat Autism Now, calls removing metals […]
December 8, 2009
In a gripping series exploring autism and its treatments, the Los Angeles Times reports that “after reviewing thousands of pages of court documents and scientific studies […]
December 5, 2009
In the 1990s, I published a number of papers in the medical and birthing literature to help birthing families design and experience safer and more satisfying […]
December 5, 2009
Ten years ago I published an article for a midwifery journal on the issue of whether the father of the baby should be in the delivery […]
December 5, 2009
This blog series is designed to help women who are developing a birth plan join together with like-minded birthing professionals so as to have a shorter […]
December 2, 2009
In general, parents shopping for children this holiday season can be confident that toys on the shelves are safer than they have been in the past, […]
November 6, 2011
More than half of American adults take dietary supplements. Now a major new study finds that supplements either do no good or increase the risk of dying […]
November 7, 2011
The alphabet soup of vitamin studies making headlines in the last few weeks has left more than one head spinning, and most clinicians scrambling for answers. […]
November 8, 2011
Dietary supplements containing SAMe (S-adenosyl-methionine) can be effective in treating osteoarthritis as well as depression and mood disorders, but only 7 out of ten SAM-e supplements […]
November 8, 2011
After so many recent blogs with negative news about your health risks, I thought you’d enjoy a positive one … chocolate reduces stroke risk!
November 9, 2011
Babies and toddlers should learn and get their entertainment from play, NOT from TV screens, computer displays, or video games, according to a new policy statement […]
November 10, 2011
A recent study published in the British Journal of Psychiatry has concluded what pro-abortion groups have tried to discount for decades: abortion substantially increases a woman’s […]
November 10, 2011
Medscape reported that “diet quality can have a significant effect on mental health outcomes and may potentially have a role in preventing and treating such common […]
November 11, 2011
HealthDay reports two presentations “at the American Society for Reproductive Medicine annual meeting” suggesting that there is a link “between nutrition and semen quality.”
November 12, 2011
We tell people all the time that we have forgiven them, but the truth is, in most cases, we haven’t really done so. If we say […]
November 12, 2011
We tell people all the time that we have forgiven them, but the truth is, in most cases, we haven’t really done so. If we say we […]
November 13, 2011
A number of media sources discussed a new study suggesting that annual mammogram screening may lead to a high false positive rate.
November 13, 2011
There’s a new warning from the nation’s pediatricians and it may surprise a good many parents who think those baby DVD’s, even educational television can benefit […]