Lady Docs Corner Cafe Blog

Thu Tran, MD,FACOG

thumb_420-measles-virus

Measles and Politics: A Piece of My Mind

February 10, 2015

This past weekend my husband David and I took our son Sandy to Chapel Hill, North Carolina to watch a Duke basketball game with my parents-in-law Drs. Sam Katz and…

Read More
thumb_416-january-2015

January Health Pearls: Walnuts and Alzheimer’s, Formaldehyde in E-Cigarette Vapor

January 28, 2015

Walnuts as Super Nuts for Memory  The National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (NHANES) reported a significant positive relationship between walnut consumption and cognitive function in adults of all ages,…

Read More

Taking Steps to Maintain a Lucid Mind, a New Year Message

December 30, 2014

I met my mother in law Betsy more than twenty years ago.  She was in her sixties, well read, well rounded, quite brilliant.  She graduated from Sarah Lawrence, Barbara Walters’…

Read More
thumb_406-Anthropologies-Window-Display-1

December Health Pearls: Gardasil 9 Vaccine: Pollution Exposure and Risk of Autism, Dysfuntional Sleep and Childhood Obesity

December 28, 2014

1.  Gardasil 9, the New Version of A Cervical Cancer Vaccine.  Earlier this month, the FDA approved the Gardasil 9, Merck’s new version of Human Papilloma Virus (HPV) vaccine, to…

Read More
thumb_397-Maryland-Youth-Orchestra

Can We Bring Real Changes?

December 10, 2014

Last Sunday, my husband and I went to the Maryland Youth Orchestra’s concert at Strathmore, a well known music hall in Bethesda, Maryland.  Our Goddaughter and her two younger brothers…

Read More
thumb_396-Holiday-meal

Holiday Events: Tips on Keeping Your Weight Stable

December 6, 2014

I don’t know how many holiday parties you and your family plan to attend this year, but that time is coming soon.  Thanksgiving is over, but we have two more…

Read More
Thanksgiving

Giving more than Thanks on Thanksgiving

November 27, 2014

HAPPY THANKSGIVING TO YOU AND YOUR FAMILY! Early this morning, many members in my bootcamp and I gathered at Dr. Rebecca Katz’s home for the Turkey Chase event in Bethesda,…

Read More
thumb_389-Fall-on-the-C-O-Canal

Whose Life Is It Anyway?

November 20, 2014

Each physician went into his specialty for a reason.  Some of us, like me as an obstetrician, want to see the beginning of life while others do not mind dealing…

Read More
thumb_387-Bay-Bridge-Run

Across the Bay Bridge 10K

November 15, 2014

Last Sunday, Dr. Marsha Seidelman, Dr. Mimi Nguyen (an orthodontist), my husband David, and I ran the Across the Bay Bridge 10K event.  As you know, the Bay Bridge connects…

Read More
thumb_375-Billy-Goat-Trail--A-Reflection

The Road Less Travelled

November 8, 2014

I just finished another on-call weekend, the second to the last weekend I will have to be on-call this year.  It turned out to be among the “most brutal” on-call…

Read More