Posts Tagged ‘medical’

By Lauren McCormick
What would you do in order to preserve hope for your child’s future? Most parents will do whatever it takes. For expectant parents, this includes the option to bank your child’s umbilical cord blood. With close to 80 diseases and disorders treatable with stem cells from a baby’s cord blood, [...]

By Loretta Gillespie
In December of 2006, Kristina and Richey Terry decided they wanted to have a baby. They were both young, healthy people, in their thirties, and Kristina had a child by a previous marriage without any problems. Nevertheless, after months of trying, they finally decided to seek help in finding out what was wrong. [...]

Amber Stuart is a reporter in Huntsville, AL, for WHNT News 19. Orginally from Decatur, AL, she graduated from Jacksonville State University with a degree in Mass Communications and a minor in Theatre. She has been with WHNT since May of 2005. The Stuarts live in Meridianville where they are involved in the [...]

By Saché Sams
Sometimes in life we are left asking the question,“Why?” Although we may never receive an answer, we have to trust that there is a plan for our lives.
On January 8, 2009, our lives changed forever. I was 35 weeks and four days pregnant when my obstetrician made an executive decision to deliver our [...]

By Danny Cartwright, MD
Sunburn
Summer brings longer days, more time outside and more sun exposure which means increased risk of melanoma, or skin cancer, which is caused by sunburns. Studies show that repeated exposure to the sun’s rays during early childhood and adolescence is a major contributor to developing skin cancer later in life. [...]

By Kim Houser
On a sun filled May morning in 2005 my three year old daughter Emma passed away from a genetic disorder called Cockayne Syndrome. During her brief life, my husband and I advocated on her behalf to get services and support. Prior to having children, I had been a case worker for [...]

By Betsy Bross Roberts
“Have we talked about the molding of Bross’s head?” Dr. Michael Klemm, our pediatrician asked.  My husband Chris and I had taken Bross to the doctor for his six months’ well baby check-up.  Then Dr. Klemm showed us that the back right side of Bross’s head was flatter than the left.  He asked [...]

By Glenni Lorick, IBCLC, RLC
In the recently released Atlantic, writer Hannah Rosin, herself a breastfeeding mother, makes the case that the healthy benefits of breastfeeding are way overstated. In her article entitled “The Case Against Breastfeeding” she questions whether breastfeeding might be “this generation’s vacuum cleaner — an instrument of misery that mostly just keeps [...]

By Audrey Oyama RN, MSN, IBCLC,HBCE
How a mother chooses to give birth to her child is a very personal decision. Mothers should have choices in their birthing.Using hypnosis in childbirth is not a new idea or one exclusive to the HypnoBirthing® method. Marie Mongan, founder of HypnoBirthing® is an award winning therapist with over 30 [...]

By Lisa Carter
If someone read this headline in the paper, it would send shockwaves through the state. But in reality that is what is occurring on a daily basis in our state and has been solidified by the most recent statistics released for 2007. Three years ago, the state of Alabama had hit [...]