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The gift of depression and mood disorder

Posted on July 26, 2013 by DXS Contributor

What do you do when your illness feeds your success?

by Sarah Boon Continue reading →

Posted in Everything else, Health, I Am Mental Illness | Tagged bipolar disorder, cyclothymia, depression, I Am Mental Illness

The gummy deficiency

Posted on July 21, 2013 by DXS Contributor

How prenatal gummy vitamins fall short.

by Joss Fong Continue reading →

Posted in Biology, Everything else, Health, Pregnancy 101 | Tagged gummy prenatal vitamins, gummy vitamins, iron in pregnancy, Joss Fong, pregnancy, prenatal vitamins

Maternal abortion history no longer a risk for preterm birth

Posted on July 16, 2013 by Tara Haelle

What once was a link has now vanished.

by Tara Haelle Continue reading →

Posted in Biology, Everything else, Health, Pregnancy 101 | Tagged abortion, abortion and preterm birth, abortion risk, Clare Oliver-Williams, PLOS Medicine, Tara Haelle

Armchair genetics from Jamestown to Scott Brown

Posted on June 28, 2013 by DXS Contributor

What not to assume about “race” and parenting.

by Rebecca Schwarzlose Continue reading →

Posted in Biology, Everything else, Health | Tagged genetics, liger, multiethnic, multiracial, race, Rebecca Schwarzlose

He found out he has ovaries*

Posted on June 6, 2013 by Emily Willingham

Rare co-occurrence of two conditions masked it.

by Emily Willingham Continue reading →

Posted in Biology, Everything else, Health | Tagged adrenal, adrenal gland, ambiguous genitalia, congenital adrenal hyperplasia, cortisol, early puberty, hypospadias, man is female, Turner syndrome, XO

Of pacifiers and breastfeeding

Posted on June 3, 2013 by Tara Haelle

Take away pacifiers in a hospital… and breastfeeding rates drop?

by Tara Haelle Continue reading →

Posted in Biology, Everything else, Health | Tagged breastfeeding, formula, nipple confusion, nursing, pacifier, Pediatrics, Red Wine and Apple Sauce, Tara Haelle

Arousal during rape

Posted on May 30, 2013 by DXS Contributor

Yes, it can happen to a rape victim.

by Jenny Morber Continue reading →

Posted in Biology, Everything else, Health | Tagged arousal during rape, autonomic nervous system, orgasm and rape, orgasm during rape, rape, sexaul assault

Calculating vaccine risk

Posted on May 29, 2013 by DXS Contributor

How the numbers really play out.
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Posted in Biology, Everything else, Health | Tagged adverse events, Allison Hagood, CDC, Red Wine and Apple Sauce, risk, vaccines

 

Early puberty among adoptees

Posted on May 28, 2013 by Tara Haelle

Are we treating a problem that doesn’t exist?

by Tara Haelle Continue reading →

Posted in Biology, Everything else, Health | Tagged adoptee, adoption, early puberty, GnRH agonist, gonadotropin, gonadotropin releasing hormone, international adoption, Peter Hayes, precocious puberty, puberty

Not knowing

Posted on May 24, 2013 by DXS Contributor

There will be a next time, another severe and major depression.

by Nobody Continue reading →

Posted in Everything else, Health, I Am Mental Illness | Tagged bipolar, depression, I Am Mental Illness, mental health, mental illness, PTSD

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