By Rev. Megan Lloyd Joiner   As the spring thaw finally comes to my home in New England, I am making preparations for Easter celebrations and Passover Seders. I am watching with baited breath as the daffodils emerge, and I am thinking about the miraculous.    The springtime ...

            It is a new year and we enter it with wishes, resolutions, and expectations about what we will encounter.  One of the toughest things you may have faced last year was a negative pregnancy test or perhaps a miscarriage. I remember taking my ...

by Corey Whelan The world welcomed the birth of Beyonce and Jay-Z's daughter, Blue Ivy Carter, on the last day of 2011.  Nine days later we learned that this very public couple had kept a very private secret - the loss of an earlier pregnancy.  Rapper Jay-Z's  latest release, ...

What constitutes a person anyway?  I know full grown folks who don't deserve the label. Look, I don't mean to make light of this, believe me.  Last night waiting for the vote to come down, I really couldn't breathe.  The long term implications of the personhood amendment (I can't ...

Asherman’s syndrome (AS) can lead infertility in a number of ways. No two cases are identical and it can manifest as infertility according to how and which parts of the reproductive anatomy is affected. AS is characterized by intrauterine adhesions (IUA) and/or fibrosis (non-functional scar ...

by Fred Licciardi, M.D. Today I have answered the more interesting questions over the past few months. What do I think about cervical mucus? This is tricky question. I would not make any treatment plans based on cervical mucus. Some women have “normal” mucus and others have mucus ...

by Corey Whelan Today would have marked the 82nd birthday of Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis.  I have always been fascinated with Jackie O – I’ve had two Jackie sightings in my life.  One, on a beach in Negril (1975, wearing a tie dyed tee shirt over a bathing suit) and once on ...

By Fred Licciardi, M.D. Spotting. Really frustrating. Where does it come from? We first look for an anatomical reason (a problem due to some sort of growth that we can see usually with the ultrasound). The most common reason is that there is a polyp inside the uterus. A polyp is a benign ...

by Emily Laitmon, L.C.S.W. “I’m sorry; we don’t have good news.  Your pregnancy test from the IVF is negative.” “Please call regarding your Amnio results.  There’s a problem we need to discuss” “The doctor needs to speak with ...

by Corey Whelan Lupus is a chronic, autoimmune disease, which can damage any part of the body.  While teenagers and men are sometimes diagnosed with lupus, women of child bearing age comprise the largest statistical group affected.  Like all other autoimmune diseases, lupus ...