Tag: health
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Endometriosis: A Scientist Gets Schooled
In the mid-1990s, when I first put on my lab coat as a newly minted reproductive pathologist, we referred to endometriosis as “a gynecologic disease” since it’s almost exclusively diagnosed in reproductive-age women. All these years later, we realize just how flawed that previous classification was. My research career focused on unraveling the mechanisms behind…
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Thursday’s Child
When my first child was born at 5:24 am on September 20, 2001, he just missed being “Thursday’s child.” As a human-interest story, a Nashville TV station ran a news feature profiling the family of the first baby born each Thursday. At first, I was a little disappointed—Kendrick was perfect, and I wanted to show…
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Tip of the Spear
August 10th is Agent Orange Awareness Day in recognition of that day in 1961 when the U.S. began aerial spraying of herbicides in Vietnam. More than 50 years after the use of Agent Orange ended, this chemical continues to impact veterans and their families as well as multiple generations of Vietnamese. This past March, on…
