Most of you have probably heard of the BRCA 1 and BRCA2 gene mutations, that can predispose patients with mutations of these genes to breast, ovarian and other cancers. BRCA1 and BRAC2 are proteins that play a key role in the repair of damage in the double stranded DNA of cells. When there is a ...
Category Archives: Women’s Health
The Skeptical OB on Attachment Parenting
Dr. Amy Tuteur is an obstetrician who posts as The Skeptical OB regularly. Her posts are always well thought out and articulate and usually contrarian. Her posts are more detailed than mine tend to be, and tend to articulate her point of view explicitly. I hope you enjoy this article reposted with her kind permission. Check ...
More on ACL Injuries in Females
I just read an interesting, if a bit esoteric article on predicting which female athletes are at risk for ACL injuries. Some of you may recall a prior post on ACL injuries in girls: ACL injury prevention in female athletes This article gives hope that ...
Underwater Birth is Not Natural
I've always thought birth pools ana underwater birth was wierd, unnatural and seemed dangerous. Advocates are passionate about its benefits, but it looks like they are ignoring the risks. I turned away a couple of patients years ago because water births just seemed too frightening for me to accomodate. Now the risks are becoming more ...
Martina Navratilova and DCIS- what is this anyway?
Ms. Navratilova has Ductal Carcinoma in Situ (DCIS). Sounds scary, and all cancer is, but DCIS is really a diagnosis of cancer before it starts to invade tissues outside the milk ducts of the breast. It is a cancer that really can only be discovered by imaging, usually by mammography since at this early stage it is ...
Exercise and weight loss. More tough news.
Exercise alone does not seem to be effective in preventing weight gain once a woman is already heavy. The latest JAMA issue reports on a huge study trying to see if different levels of exercise prevent weight gain in women. This study looks at the 34,000 women in the Women’s Health Study, a huge cohort ...
Peter Yarrow Croons about the Virtues of Colonoscopy
Peter Yarrow of Peter Paul and Mary teams up with CBS to make this very cool You Tube video called The Colonoscopy Song promoting colon cancer screening. I got no prize, just good news of a 10 year wait to do it again when I turned 50. I first saw this on KevinMD.com and ...
More Evidence Birth Control Pill Use is Safe
In the latest issue of the British Medical Journal Hannaford et. al. report on a data of a huge number of women followed for almost 40 years, and look at the death rates in women who have used birth control pills compared to women who never used birth control pills. In fact the overall ...
Girl’s sports pay off longterm
My wife and I strongly believed that our daughter should learn to play on a team. We had her join the same type of youth soccer and baseball as our son. We thought that learning to play as a part of a team, to set goals, to win and lose, and to be coached were ...
VBAC and Home Birth
Kenny Lin MD is a family physician who posts regularly at Common Sense Family Doc. He always has well researched and thought out opinions, and this is a good example of his writing, first posted at his site on July 29, 2010. VBAC and home birth: evaluating the evidence Thanks to a recent pronouncement from ...
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