From the first day of medical school orientation, we are taught that medicine is holistic and humanistic and should always be infused with genuine care for patients in addition to…
Read moreEmbryonic stem cells have been at the center of an intense national debate and in 2011 for the first time ever, doctors injected human embryonic stem cells into a patient…
Read moreMaximizing the Potential of an Aging Population King and Guralnik, JAMA 304:1944-1945, 2010.The aging of the world’s population is evidence by the projected increase in adults older than 60 from…
Read moreSelective Fetal ReductionMore than 20 years ago Mark Evans, a maternal fetal medicine high risk pregnancy specialist, was asked by an infertility specialist friend what to do about one of…
Read moreMetformin, oral contraceptives, and the statins are frequently used to treat patients with PCOS. These treatments can reduce the associated cardiovascular disease risk; however, some oral contraceptives may increase cardiovascular…
Read morePregnancy loss and risk of cardiovascular disease: a prospective population-based cohort study (EPIC-Heidelberg), Kharazmi et.al., Heart 97:49-54, 2011.These investigators set out to examine whether pregnancy loss (miscarriage, abortion or stillbirth)…
Read moreHow To Survive the HolidaysBy Traci Shahan, RN, WHNP-BC, Doctor of Nursing It seems like a split second ago, my husband and I weretraversing the slippery slope of getting through the…
Read moreNobel Prize for IVF PioneerIn October of 2010 the scientific community was informed that British biologist Robert G. Edwards, PhD was to be awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or…
Read moreThe Truth About TwinsTraci Shahan, RN, WHNP-BC, CNS, NDLast week on NPR, I heard a blurb about the less glamorous, more serious unwanted and unintended effects of having twins. This…
Read morePregnancy loss and risk of cardiovascular disease: a prospective population-based cohort study (EPIC-Heidelberg), Kharazmi et.al., Heart 97:49-54, 2011.These investigators set out to examine whether pregnancy loss (miscarriage, abortion or stillbirth)…
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