The Pregnancy Meeting
The Society for Maternal Fetal Medicine held its annual conference in Chicago last week, and I went to a few sessions. The physicians, who specialize in the health of mothers and their babies, spent up...
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Mothers & babies can use the luck of the Irish
The Chicago River, ready for the parade From Chicago on St. Patrick's Day, here is our famous green river, dyed last Saturday for the big downtown parade, captured by my friend Bill Linden. What does...
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Medicine too complex to be error-free
I notice that the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists is gearing up for its annual clinical meeting May 15 through May 19 in San Francisco. The 2009 annual meeting was in Chicago, and I...
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Alexis Carrel
In 1894, Marie Francois Sadi Carnot, the president of France, was stabbed by a would-be assassin in Lyons. By today's standards, the wound was not severe; however, the knife severed the portal vein in...
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Bank on it
Bernard Fantus, the Hungarian-born physician who was the director of "therapeutics" at Cook County Hospital in Chicago, Ill., established the first "blood bank" in 1937. Until then, a donor had to be...
View ArticleOf birth and renewal: Of spring
It was 41 degrees Fahrenheit when we got up this morning here in Chicago, but this weekend, the Memorial Day weekend, marks the unofficial beginning of summer in the United States. Officially, it's...
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“Carmaggedon” birth story?
My daughter Nora lives in Los Angeles, Cal., so I am aware that Angelenos are so dreading the shutdown of 10 miles of the I-405 expressway there for road work this weekend they have dubbed the event...
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Predicting problems in labor
How great would it be to be able to tell in advance whether a particular birth would go smoothly or need intervention! A French team of physicians reported this week at the annual meeting of the...
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