Sudden Infant Death Syndrome: The term strikes fear into new parents, and for good reason. More than 2000 infants die of SIDS each year, and it’s the leading cause of death for babies between 1 month and 1 year of age. The loss is devastating to families who have...
Pregnancy is an amazing thing—it’s truly a complex miracle, and although we are learning more about fetal development every day the truth is that there’s much more that medicine has to discover. As a result, medical advice for pregnant women has shifted dramatically...
An Arizona family is trapped in a waking nightmare this Spring as they fight to regain custody of their three children. The children, who were well cared for in a stable family that had no history of any sort of abuse, neglect or legal trouble, were ripped from their...
The First Amendment of the Constitution of the United States reads: “Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof, or the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to...
You’ve heard that many vaccines contain aluminum, and you may be wondering why it would be considered an appropriate or necessary ingredient in an immunization. After all, aluminum is highly toxic to the body and especially harmful to neural tissue. Why would drug...
The news has been alarming: Across the US, 62 cases of a frightening polio-like illness have been reported. The disease strikes mostly children and moves quickly from mild cold-like symptoms to paralysis with no warning. Dubbed “Acute Flaccid Myelitis,” or AFM, its...
