We have recently moved and our new place as a saltwater #swimming pool. We love this as it allows us to play in the water without...

This is a tricky one and admittedly, it can be a challenge even for experienced clinicians to tell these apart. They are both itchy, but...

Most everyone my age and older endured the chickenpox as a child. Certainly none of us feared it; really, it was more an inconvenience or...

The Indiana Department of Health (IDOH) alerted clinicians today to a report from the Kentucky Department for Public Health of a...

We all know about #hemophilia, as the AIDS epidemic made us real familiar back in the 1990s. Ryan White suffered with this genetic...

There are a number of ways, endless ways, that we differ. We are more different than we are the same to be honest, but today when I was...

Many years ago, while watching the sitcom Parenthood with Ray Romano and the hunky, Dax Shepard, it occurred to my former husband that he...

Another super common finding among little ones, particularly those younger than five years of age. Having six of my own and a few...

Since I was a wee little one, I've been very alert to anything health related. Biology fascinated me. First aide was my jam in middle...

Tonight I was cleaning out my file cabinet and found a large hanging file titled, "Nursing & Midwifery BS." One would think that my own...

Managing pain during all stages of labor is a key priority for midwives and expectant mommas. This has mainly been addressed with...

Assessing children and adolescents really is an art, maybe more so than it is even a highly sophisticated science. Children themselves...

My kids have the most wild ear wax and I am not ashamed to say I have a bit of fun with this. I've used candles on them, Elephant ear...

As one of the many herpes viruses, this one living in the epithelial cells of the pharynx and parotid duct, #mononucleosis infects about...

Von Willebrand disease (VWD) encompasses a group of inherited bleeding disorders related to qualitative or quantitative defects of von...

I am an #antique book collector, actually anything antique and medical. I have instruments, barber tools, sterilizers, medicine tins and...

Nearly a quarter of our little ones have eczema, an inflammatory skin condition. Just as asthma has, eczema and most all other forms of...

The National Center for Complementary and Integrative Medicine (NCCIM) which is part of the National Institute of Health (NIH) considers...

This topic is always near-and-dear to my heart, as my former spouse of 22-years and several of my children have some level of autistic...

Anxiety disorders are prevalent among adolescents, and this one hits home for me, as my otherwise confident and charismatic son is nearly...