Dr. Gwenn’s Huffington Post Blog
The headline could have easily been from TV drama or sitcom, but was very real: Infant born at 35,000 feet. Aida Alamillo was as surprised as anyone that she went into labor en route to Boston. At 35 weeks, she [...]
When I decided to become a doctor, what seems like a lifetime ago, I most certainly jumped before I looked. We all did that. How in the world could we really have known what a field like medicine really was [...]
Just over a year ago, I blogged about an ABC News story about bullying that gave data that women are more likely in the workplace to be bullied by other women. This week on MomLogic, blogger Ronda Kaysen posted an [...]
We all want our kids to someday end up on healthy, loving relationships. Hopefully, that will be the situation. But, what if it’s not? What if one of our children ends up in a situation like Rihanna found herself in [...]
Exercise bike: $399-$1500 at NordicTrack.comTreadmill: $699 – $2969 at NordicTrack.comWii Fit: $89.99 after $249 for the gaming system Price to get Adam’s entire family in shape: priceless! Adam is right about the Wii Fit’s abilty to help folks stay in [...]
Just before Thanksgiving, the YWCA released a survey that revealed that Generation Y women, ages 18-29, feel our country has more work to do in the areas of civil rights and racial justice and want to see our new administration [...]
Some biological facts are irrefutable. One such fact is that conception occurs when an egg and sperm join together. Without that biological fact occurring to form an embryo, there has been no creation of life. We can argue for days [...]
This article from the NYT yesterday raises some important health screening issues. The headline actually says it all: “Doctors can play crucial role in cases of domestic violence.” While it sounds like common sense and perhaps a bit obvious, the [...]
Did you know that April is National Cancer Control Month? For adults, cancer is the second leading cause of death after heart disease – and for women, breast cancer tops the list but thanks to awareness and medical advances, the [...]
Have you ever been bullied? Even if you never thought of it as “bullying”, I’ll go out on a limb and propose that all of us have had at least one experience at some point that was so intense that [...]
