Shippensburg University, a private liberal arts college in Pennsylvania with 8000 students, has been offering emergency contraception in its on-campus vending machines for the last few years. The medication is available along side condoms and pregnancy tests for $25 in the student health center. In a study of 10,000 college students, more than 77 percent [...]
An alarming report was released this week by a study done at Dartmouth College finding high levels of arsenic, a potentially dangerous poison, in organic brown-rice syrup. To further scare people the report stated that this poison could be found in infant formulas and that the exposure to arsenic by infants and young children could [...]
There are exciting things to come in 2012! Hello everyone! We hope you are having a healthy, happy, and prosperous start to 2012. Around the holidays, the partnership we have with one another is so important. Because we care so deeply about our families and want to have a balance in our personal lives as [...]
When I was 36, I went through a divorce. I found myself single for the first time in 15 years and had no idea what my future would hold. My ex and I had two kids together but I wondered if, one day, I would want to expand my family with someone else. What if [...]
The beginning of a new year is a great opportunity to take a look back, to acknowledge what you’ve accomplished, and also to recognize things you’d like to change in the future. As OB/GYN’s, we’d like to suggest some new year’s resolutions that we’d love to see each of our patients make and keep. Wishing [...]
I’m just back from a week off and made my morning rounds. I visited a mother who I had cared for during her pregnancy that Dr. Hill covered while I was gone. She came into the office for her routine visit at 29 weeks and she had very high blood pressure and was spilling protein [...]
Dr. Bohn: A couple of days ago, I just finished decorating my Christmas tree, sent out our Christmas cards and I am spending this week hanging out with my kids because I have great partners who are working hard during the holidays while I am resting. We all take turns, I worked during Thanksgiving while [...]
Having delivered thousands of babies, we can tell you from the bottom of our hearts that birthing a baby is one of the most beautiful and natural functions that our bodies allow us to do. Fortunately, most births do go smoothly, and we end up with a healthy mom and baby. But we’ve also been [...]
Many women suffer from leg cramps during pregnancy, especially at night. As far as we know, no cause has yet been determined for these painful cramps. Doctors and scientists have been searching for causes, researching theories such as low potassium, magnesium, or calcium levels. None of these ideas have been proven, and most likely the [...]
“The Pill” has been one of the greatest innovations in women’s health. Developed in the 1960’s, oral contraceptives, also known as birth control pills, have given new freedom to women in family planning. Today, about 12 million women in the US, and over 100 million women worldwide, are on the pill. Birth control pills contain [...]
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