Choosing a Medical Caregiver An obstetrician is either a medical doctor (M.D.) or a doctor of osteopathy (D.O.) who provides medical care for pregnant women and delivers babies. These doctors have completed a minimum of four years of training in obstetrics and gynecology. They will have credentials as "board-certified...
Screening for Alcohol Problems-An Update
The prevalence of alcohol use disorders is significantly higher among patients visiting a primary care practitioner than among the general population (1,2). For this reason, clinicians have the opportunity to play a key role in detecting alcohol problems and in initiating prevention or treatment...
Sexual Violence - An Overview Definition Sexual violence is a sex act completed or attempted against a victim's will or when a victim is unable to consent due to age, illness, disability, or the influence of alcohol or other drugs. It may involve actual or threatened physical force, use of guns or other weapons, coercion,...
Women Hold Up Half the Sky: Mental illnesses affect women and men differently-some disorders are more common in women, and some express themselves with different symptoms. Scientists are only now beginning to tease apart the contribution of various biological and psychosocial factors to mental health and mental illness in...
Rights for Biological Fathers Via Rape? March 5, 2008, 9:58 am
Rape is not an easy subject for me to write about on any level. No woman should ever have to go through the dehumanizing, demoralizing and destructive act of rape. The truth is that some women do. And this article out of Maryland is interesting in many ways.
First off, I was not aware that...
Caffeine Increases Risk of Miscarriages January 22, 2008, 6:05 am
The recently released results of a new study published in the American Journal of Obstetrics and Gynecology show that there is a correlation between the amount of caffeine a pregnant woman consumes and miscarriage.
Most doctors warn pregnant women to cut back on their caffeine intake, but...
Doctors Use Laser Scans To Spot FAS November 18, 2007, 5:30 pm
An international team of doctors has developed a way to use three-dimensional laser images to diagnose fetal alcohol syndrome.
The doctors used the lasers to take just six images of a child suspected of having FAS--two from the front and two from either side. That gave them digital images that...