“They just took me into the ward and put me on the bed and told me they were going to […]
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“They just took me into the ward and put me on the bed and told me they were going to […]
[Spoiler alert for PBS’s Mercy Street] Like just about every other Civil War historian out there, I’ve been following PBS’s […]
Historians, journalists, and public health officials have begun to call Zika the new rubella (German measles). When a pregnant woman […]
The CDC’s recent sexist and patronizing warning about women and alcohol managed to outrage huge numbers of people and provoke […]
Mosquitos carrying the Zika virus in Latin America are wreaking havoc in people’s lives into the next generation. It’s only […]
In November of 1866, a minor sensation rocked the Albany area following the death of the young widow Elizabeth Dunham, […]
In the opening scene of The Knick, Steven Soderbergh’s period drama about a fictionalized version of the Knickerbocker Hospital in […]
There are quite a few ways to experience loss of pregnancy. When I was expecting my own daughter, no woman […]
Over the last several years, placentophagy has slowly crept into that vicious public media arena known as “the Mommy Wars.” […]
Last week, Mark Zuckerberg joyfully announced on Facebook that he and his wife, Priscilla Chan, are expecting a daughter. More […]