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Haiti by findingeve Patient Expert

Posted in: Blog Posts in Women's Health Dear readers, I know that most of you have been inundated recently with the news of the earthquake in Haiti and appeals to send aid, especially in the form of ... Read on »

Temporary Hiatus by findingeve Patient Expert

Posted in: Blog Posts in Women's Health Due to several unforeseen circumstances I have not been able to update this blog since the semester began. Unfortunately, I think that pattern will hold until the semes ... Read on »

Fallopian Tubes by findingeve Patient Expert

Posted in: Blog Posts in Women's Health What springs to mind when Fallopian tubes are mentioned? That they “connect” the ovaries to the uterus which leads finally to the vagina and the outside of the body? P ... Read on »

Health Information Online by findingeve Patient Expert

Posted in: Blog Posts in Women's Health As you all may know, I am a master’s student in bioethics. Our curriculum covers a wide array of subjects and I am currently in a public health class learning about hea ... Read on »

Diet and Gender Determination by findingeve Patient Expert

Posted in: Blog Posts in Women's Health I have been hearing and reading for some time now about the belief by some that a mother’s diet can help determine the gender of a fetus. Generally, this possibility is ... Read on »

Hormonal Differences by findingeve Patient Expert

Posted in: Blog Posts in Women's Health If you are anything like me and read the medical headlines every day you have probably noticed in the past few weeks a spate of articles about how hormones can affect a ... Read on »

Rare Ectopic Pregnancy, again by findingeve Patient Expert

Posted in: Blog Posts in Women's Health In the last blog entry I detailed the story of Zahra Aboutalib, a Moroccan woman with a rare complication of an ectopic pregnancy, a lithopedion. The second incredibly ... Read on »

Rare Ectopic Pregnancy by findingeve Patient Expert

Posted in: Blog Posts in Women's Health Last night The Learning Channel replayed a program that I originally saw about a year ago entitled “Extraordinary Pregnancies.” It told the story of two women and their ... Read on »

Sperm by findingeve Patient Expert

Posted in: Blog Posts in Women's Health Sperm may seem an odd choice of subject for a “young woman’s guide to gynecology and obstetrics.” But it is this last word, obstetrics, that makes sperm a good choice f ... Read on »

Quick Update by findingeve Patient Expert

Posted in: Blog Posts in Women's Health I live! Yes, I have been absenting myself from the blog, but for a good reason. I needed to concentrate on school until the end of the semester. I am within hours of ... Read on »

Doula by findingeve Patient Expert

Posted in: Blog Posts in Women's Health I worry sometimes that because I myself have not experienced pregnancy that I might ignore the “obstetrics” portion of this blog. I hope that is not the case because ma ... Read on »

Vaginismus by findingeve Patient Expert

Posted in: Blog Posts in Women's Health My apologies for an absence! There were finals, work, a brief foray at an ivy league university, and two family emergencies–and my birthday was a week ago. Time marche ... Read on »

Blog news by findingeve Patient Expert

Posted in: Blog Posts in Women's Health Greetings all! I recently received an honor by being invited to be a featured HealthBlogger in the Women’s Health Community at Wellsphere.com. That’s quite exciting to ... Read on »

Doula by findingeve Patient Expert

Posted in: Blog Posts in Women's Health I worry sometimes that because I myself have not experienced pregnancy that I might ignore the “obstetrics” portion of this blog. I hope that is not the case because ma ... Read on »

Vaginismus by findingeve Patient Expert

Posted in: Blog Posts in Women's Health My apologies for an absence! There were finals, work, a brief foray at an ivy league university, and two family emergencies–and my birthday was a week ago. Time marche ... Read on »

Is Milk Really That Good for You? by findingeve Patient Expert

Posted in: Blog Posts in Women's Health After recently spending four days in Cleveland at a bioethics conference I came away with several new, and renewed, perspectives on women’s health issues. The first tha ... Read on »

Welcome! by findingeve Patient Expert

Posted in: Blog Posts in Women's Health Hello and welcome to this blog. Being a female is and always has been difficult. One of the most difficult issues, if not the most difficult issue, facing women from t ... Read on »

Oncofertility: A Budding Field by findingeve Patient Expert

Posted in: Blog Posts in Women's Health So, another topic brought up by my time at the bioethics conference in Cleveland: oncofertility. I had often thought about this very idea, but didn’t realize there was ... Read on »

Lactation: Mother’s Milk by findingeve Patient Expert

Posted in: Blog Posts in Women's Health So, since we talked about conventional cow milk a couple of days ago as well as soy and organic milks, I thought we should spare a thought for human-produced milk. I ha ... Read on »

Gender and the OB/GYN by findingeve Patient Expert

1 Comment Posted in: Blog Posts in Women's Health I have often heard small clusters of young women, and sometimes not-as-young women, discussing the issue of whether it is better to have a female gynecologist, a male gy ... Read on »

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