by Maureen Turner | Sep 3, 2009 | Wellness
The laboring mom was determined to have a natural birth, and her nurse-midwife, Anastasia Hallisey, was determined to help her do it. But at the same time, Hallisey had another patient in labor, who also required her attention. Moving back and forth between the two...
by Judy Foreman | Oct 1, 2009 | Wellness
In the Lodz ghetto in Poland, home to as many as 204,000 Jews during World War II, there were 170 doctors, as well as a few nurses and midwives, according to diaries and memoirs. Like all the others, the Jewish healers lived with the daily terror of being shipped off...
by Stephanie Kraft | Nov 5, 2009 | Wellness
How can we sleep when our own thoughts, our households and our life styles make sleep impossible? When our children turn day into night and night into day? When our cell phones won't stop ringing and our friends and workmates are muttering, "Sleeping is for...
by Amy Littlefield | Dec 3, 2009 | Wellness
As the Environmental Protection Agency dusts off its cogs after years of inactivity, a consumer watchdog group has given us yet another reason to believe that the global manufacturing sector is trying to kill us. Their chief weapon this time? Vinyl and faux leather...
by Stephanie Kraft | Jan 7, 2010 | Wellness
Even skiers, winter campers and ice climbers have to admit this: winter has days that are just plain nasty. Ezra Pound said it:Winter is icumen in,Lhude sing Goddamm,Raineth drop and staineth slop,And how the wind doth ramm!Sing: Goddamm.Skiddeth bus and sloppeth...
