My five-month-old baby has very little hair - and virtually none on a small patch on the back of her head. The reason for this …
Category: Wellness
Breastfeeding may offer protection against diabetes
More news about the benefits of breastfeeding for moms. A Kaiser Permanente study shows that breastfeeding significantly lowers a woman's risk for metabolic syndrome, a …
Gains in life expectancy could be outweighed by increasing obesity rates
Failure to address the growing obesity epidemic in America could result in an erosion of the steady gain in life expectancy and quality of life …
Stanford eye doc weighs in on Lasik
Talk about funny timing: I was just ordering contact lenses (for about the 20th time in my life) when I came across this Boing Boing …
Dancing with cerebral palsy
I don't usually get teary-eyed reading the New York Times but yesterday's piece on how dance has transformed the life of a man with cerebral …
How exercise may make you more resistant to stress
Too stressed to hit the gym or go for a run after work? Consider this: preliminary results of a Princeton University study indicate that new …
Physician-writer Abraham Verghese featured on NPR
Doctors who write was the focus of a segment on NPR's All Things Considered late yesterday, and Stanford physician Abraham Verghese, MD, was featured. He's …
H1N1 flu and the persistence of memory
People of a certain age have been known to complain that, while they lucidly recall the details of childhood events, they can't remember what they …
Busted!
While trolling Google Reader yesterday, I spied something in the Knight Science Journalism Tracker (powered mainly by well-known science writer Charlie Petit) that hit a …
Can breastfeeding help moms slim down?
I literally yelped when I came across an article in the New York Times this morning. The piece tackles an issue that my mom-friends and …
Jumping may be best exercise for building healthy bones
This month a special section of Medicine & Science in Sports & Exercise, the journal of the American College of Sports Medicine, highlights the ongoing …
Caucasian women most likely to have restless leg syndrome
In a new study, 2 out of 5 Caucasian women were found to have restless leg syndrome, a disorder that causes unpleasant feelings in the …
School nutrition standards come into the 21st century
Although the federal government updates the Dietary Guidelines for Americans every five years, shockingly the nutritional standards behind the National Lunch Program and School Breakfast …
Twitterpated science writers?
The combined annual meeting of the National Association of Science Writers and the New Horizons in Science conference (sponsored by the Council for the Advancement …
The trouble with the thumb
My oldest daughter is a thumb-sucker. It never really bothered me or my husband, and neither her physician or dentist (surprisingly) have expressed great concern …
A math myth exposed
Seems the notion that genetically speaking boys are better than girls in math is a myth. Stanford biologist Robert Sapolsky, PhD, writes in a column …