Eli Reshef MD “Sell crazy someplace else- we’re all stocked up here!” (Jack Nicholson, As Good as it Gets, 1997) “It has been said numerous times that the definition of insanity is to repeat the same actions over and over again expecting a different outcome. If that axiom is true, the pro-life movement may be standing at the precipice of a mental illness.” This statement was recently made by Operation Rescue, one of the most vocal … [Read more...]
Archives for January 2013
A Message from ACOG President James T. Breeden, MD
A Message from ACOG President James T. Breeden, MD January 23, 2013 Gun Safety Has To Start Somewhere Did you know that American women who are killed by their intimate partners are more likely to be killed with guns than by all other methods combined? That a recent study shows that access to firearms increases the risk of intimate partner homicide more than five times compared to instances where there are no weapons? And that women are … [Read more...]
IVF on Steroids: The Dangerous Off-Label Use of ‘Dex’ During Pregnancy
By Alice Dreger, The Atlantic, Jan 16, 2013 When Susan Manning, a 39-year-old woman just a few weeks into her first pregnancy, wrote to tell me she had been put on the steroid dexamethasone to prevent a miscarriage--and to ask whether she should be worried about taking this drug--at first I could not even process what she was saying. Dexamethasone is known to cross the placental barrier and impact fetal development, so the very idea of first … [Read more...]
Gingrey is a bad doctor, says science
By Christie Wilcox, Scientific American, January 14, 2013 It seems like every time a male republican tries to talk about women, he somehow says something stupid and misogynistic. Last year, Missouri candidate Todd Akin was torn apart for his negligent comment that, when a woman is raped, she needn’t worry about pregnancy because “the female body has ways to try to shut that whole thing down.” Akin was vilified by his own party and lost the … [Read more...]
Wake-Up Call: FDA Pushes Drugmakers To Weaken Sleeping Pills
by Rob Stein NPR January 10, 2013 e Food and Drug Administration announced Thursday that it was requiring companies that make Ambien and similar sleeping pills to sharply cut the doses of the drugs. The agency says it is taking the step for the brands Ambien, Ambien CR, Edluar and Zolpimist, as well as generic versions of Ambien, because tests showed the active ingredient in the medications, zolpidem, stays in the body longer than had been … [Read more...]