Paul Offit on NPR

I’m ba-aaack! And fresh both from a wonderful vacation and from a not quite so wonderful reading of Dr. Robert Sears’ The Vaccine Book. I’ll be writing about the experience (if you can call it that – let’s just say it was not a pleasure. I’m afraid the man has has his father’s bent [...]

See you later…

I’ll be on holiday for the next week.
No computer, just hiking, swimming, and berry-picking. And Dr. Bob Sears’ The Vaccine Book, of course .
Bye for now!

When I grow up, I want to be…

…a Beta Mom:
And now an anti-Alpha movement is taking hold. Those moms have it together sometimes. They may forget to send back permission slips or lose track of their turn for team snacks. They don’t necessarily have the catchy name, though some call themselves Beta Moms or even Slacker Moms as they urge their peers [...]

I see a Nobel Prize in someone’s future…

…if this is accurate:
Transfusion breakthrough as human blood grown from stem cells.

NIP (Nursing in Public) – but tuck, too

You read about it once in a while in the papers, often highlighted by mommyboards: A woman breastfeeds her infant in a store, eatery or mall, and is either asked to remove herself and her baby from the scene (possibly a bathroom) or cover up. The local LLL and nursing mommies respond in a fury [...]

Why I’m not a millionaire

Because I could never have the cojones (or rather, the lack of ethics) to sell a product like this:

I mean, we all know that drinking water can help you lose weight, but this is just plain ridiculous!
I hear the Japanese really go for it, though. Well, maybe except for the Sumo wrestlers.
As [...]

Da Roolz

I added a new link to my blogroll yesterday: Musings of a Distractible Mind. It’s written by Dr. Rob, a primary care physician who is board-certified in both internal medicine and pediatrics. The blog isn’t only about medicine, but a good many of the posts tend to end up that way, naturally.
I especially liked Dr. [...]

Why ‘alternative medicine’ is a misnomer

I’ve made this observation in the comments before: There are treatments that have been shown to work and treatments that haven’t. The latter are what we call “woo”. Often, the woo-meisters accuse “allopathic” medicine of including certain treatments in the former category and excluding others because of monetary interests they hold – usually patents/licenses on [...]

Separating wheat from woo: A medical search engine

How many times have you Googled for reliable information on a ‘hot’ parenting issue, only to come up with thousands of links pointing to biased propaganda? It’s often hard to find the reliable sources among the multitude of links.

The Empire Strikes Back…and it’s about bloody time!

OK, it’s probably a wee bit of an exaggeration to call the medical establishment an empire. My excuse is that I live in a house full of Star Wars aficionados (everyone except me, that is), so it was bound to rub off on me sooner or later .
But I wanted to tell you [...]