To sum it all up, the womb experience is now fraught with many invisible dangers. The undeniable toxic exposure in utero to synthetic hormones, petrochemicals, organochlorines found in pesticides, fungicides, herbicides and insecticides, along with the new members to the club such as phthalates, nonylphenol and bisphenol-A, pose a grave risk to the developing fetus. [...]

You cannot, however, apply statistical figures to your child. Your child’s chance of success will depend on the cause of the seizures and the exact location of the focus within these lobes. The figures quoted also depend on how a specific center selects its patients for surgery. If they only select “ideal” candidates their success [...]

Many people with diabetes have a sharp rise in their blood glucose just before they wake up in the morning. There is still some argument about precisely why this is, but many researchers believe that it is simply because blood insulin levels are getting lower. However, earlier in the night, your blood glucose may have [...]

In testimony before several congressional subcommittees formed in October 1992 to review the safety of the tamoxifen trial, opponents expressed their concerns about both the design of the research and the ethics of performing such a study in healthy women. After the first round of hearings, anxiety was expressed over the informed-consent process which is [...]

In its most basic sense, competence is defined as the ability to carry out a particular task. To assess someone’s competence to do something, there must be a set of criteria against which her performance can be judged. Because those criteria are task-specific, an individual’s competence in one field (e.g., the practice of psychiatry) does [...]

People with BDD tend to feel negatively about themselves as a person because of their appearance flaws. As item 3 on Table 11 shows, people with BDD report that the perceived appearance defect has a fairly big influence on how they judge themselves as a person in a nonphysical sense (for example, thinking that the [...]

Asthma is a nightmare for our family. I get it badly and my three children get it, two of them very badly. All of the children are in their teens and none look like growing out of it. There have been occasions when three members of the family have been in hospital with asthma. I [...]

Fortunately, high blood pressure is not the end of the world. It is easily detected and, though not curable, it is usually controllable. Millions of people continue to lead normal lives after being diagnosed with hypertension. You can, too. What’s important is that you don’t dump the entire job on your doctor’s shoulders. Controlling your [...]

Any serious attempt to improve the organisation, efficiency and experience of ante-natal care relies heavily on midwives. Whether it is better community facilities or better care in the hospital, mid-wives are one of the keys to success. Many midwives today feel abused, frustrated and bored. As the Short Committee found, a more interventionist, hospital-based ante-natal [...]

I am sure that what you want out of this program is to overcome your binge-eating problem, lose weight, and be able to keep your weight off and under control. All of these results are possible. However, this is a program of total change and not a diet. You must realize that your major problem, [...]