Archive for July 2017
Postpartum depression – a common but often overlooked problem
One in five women will experience postpartum depression. The same number, or more, will suffer from postpartum anxiety (let’s save this topic for another time). For many women, especially first-time mothers, the change from their baseline to being a new mother is so different that it is a challenge to make sense of any possible…
Read MoreHealth News: Coffee Consumption and Longevity; High Dose Vitamin D Decreases Sunburn Effects; Antidepressants’ Effects in Pregnancy;Antibiotics and Birth Defects…
*Coffee Consumption Could Improve Lifespan* Two large studies, recently published in the Annals of Internal Medicine, found a link between lower mortality risk and coffee consumption. The study from University of Southern California’s Keck School of Medicine in Los Angeles, reviewed data on185,855 of middle aged to older Americans over a decade. The researchers…
Read MoreA Walk in the Wild: My Adventure with Wilderness Medicine
I dropped out of my girl scout troop in Vietnam at around nine years old. I had barely started the girl scout journey a few weeks before. It was a steamy hot summer day in Saigon, and our troop had to wait in the sun for the President of South Vietnam to visit all the…
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