My friend from Rio de Janeiro got chikungunya virus in April. First she came down with a high fever. Soon […]
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My friend from Rio de Janeiro got chikungunya virus in April. First she came down with a high fever. Soon […]
“His BMI is on the high side of normal. See?” The pediatrician showed me a chart. “This is something we […]
On Achill Island, Ireland, an untrained woman was prosecuted for acting as a midwife in 1932. In her defense, she […]
Mammogram waiting rooms are sometimes different from other medical waiting areas. If you’re going to get an x-ray of your […]
I was so surprised the first time I saw a commercial on television advertising sterilization. Yes, that’s right. Once a […]
The CDC’s recent sexist and patronizing warning about women and alcohol managed to outrage huge numbers of people and provoke […]
The HeLa cell line, infamously derived in 1951 from the tumor of Henrietta Lacks, was cultured and immortalized to provide […]
In mid-September, I fell over my back door step and landed on my wrist. The pain was so bad it […]
An article published earlier this year in Obstetrics and Gynecology exposed Americans’ misunderstandings about miscarriage. A team of researchers asked […]
Milk sharing has been in the news lately. In 2013, Nationwide Children’s Hospital in Columbus, OH analyzed over 100 samples […]