Prescriptions: The Case of the Stuck Baby
The chief resident stepped forward and pressed, hard, above the mother’s pubic bone. With luck, that would dislodge the baby’s shoulder. No luck.
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Prescriptions: If You’re a Man
Confessions of a guycologist.
Prescriptions: What Caused This Miscarriage?
As I listened to my resident counsel the patient, I asked myself if we were leaving out part of the story. Where you work does matter.
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Prescriptions: Looking Closer at ADHD and Lead
The Mission's children may be at risk from an old neurological foe.
Prescriptions: Fibroids of the Uterus or Fireballs of the Eucharist
(Almost) everyone has them. Does this have anything to do with pollution?
Prescriptions: Sleuthing the Sinister Molecule at SF General, or What Caused the Patient’s Coma?
Following a molecule's time of flight.
Prescriptions: Impact of Radiation Exposure Can Take Years to Appear in Deadly Forms
How the situation in Japan resembles a little-known disaster that happened near Los Angeles in 1959.
Prescriptions: Placenta Housekeeping
At UCSF, Dr. Jennifer Adibi tries to decode whether phthalates -- a group of industrial chemicals frequently used to make plastics more flexible -- change the hormonal development of infants in utero.
