by DrRoger | Mar 6, 2016 | Roger Newman Author
“Man wonders, But God decides, When to kill the Prince of Tides” Pat Conroy, the poet laureate of pluff mud, died yesterday of an aggressive pancreatic cancer at home in the South Carolina Low Country. There was no other way that he’d have it-...
by DrRoger | Feb 28, 2016 | Author Insights
Every so often you can feel your heart running on empty. For forty years I’ve been managing that condition by refilling with Bruce Springsteen. Diane, Sarah and I just returned from a road trip to the KFC Yum! Center in Louisville, Kentucky where we spent three...
by DrRoger | Feb 21, 2016 | Women's Healthcare
This past November, the South Carolina Infant Mortality Rates (IMR) for 2014 were released. Like most of South Carolina’s public health statistics, the results were a mixture of the good, the bad and the ugly. By way of clarification, the Infant Mortality Rate...
by DrRoger | Feb 14, 2016 | Author Insights
I spent this morning in The Bake House Internet Café with my internet Sherpa Shari Stauch of WritersWin.com. Let me say, by way of introduction, that when I learned how to email ten years ago I was convinced that I had this whole internet thing knocked. Now, every...
by DrRoger | Feb 7, 2016 | Women's Healthcare
A scientific poster from the recent Society for Maternal-Fetal Medicine (SMFM) reveals that optimal maternal nutrition prevents both preterm birth and serious newborn complications. For the past half-century obstetricians have searched for interventions that...
by DrRoger | Jan 31, 2016 | Author Insights
A bit after 1 pm on Tuesday most of the residents of Charleston, Berkeley and Dorchester Counties both heard and felt a massive sonic pressure boom that rolled in off the Atlantic Ocean. Windows rattled, furniture bounced, and knick-knacks wobbled on shelves and...
by DrRoger | Jan 24, 2016 | Women's Healthcare
The coming thing for fertility enhancement is oocyte cryopreservation for career women in their mid-thirties. Using Oncofertility technologies devised for younger women being treated with chemotherapy and irradiation for breast cancer, leukemia, lymphoma or...
by DrRoger | Jan 23, 2016 | Women's Healthcare
Cases of severe fetal microcephaly in Brazil have risen from fewer than 150 in 2014 to almost 4,000 in 2015. This surge in an otherwise rare fetal brain malformation has been linked to the Zika virus. The what? Yes, the Zika virus. Concern over this possible...
by DrRoger | Jan 17, 2016 | Academic Magnet Raptors
Last week, the Post and Courier published an excellent story on how the majority-white Academic Magnet High School (AMHS) students are addressing their school’s lack of diversity. Through personal reflection, classroom discussion, student-organized outreach and...
by DrRoger | Jan 10, 2016 | Women's Healthcare
The only effective and lasting solution to the issue of home birth safety is to understand what is driving women to consider this option. The majority of women choosing home birth understand there is a small but inherently higher risk associated with that decision....
