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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Unintended Consequences
During the early days of World War II, four groups of scientists, two in the U.S. and two in Great Britain, were independently working to identify herbicides that could be used to boost production of food crops by eliminating weeds that depleted the soil or crowded out the desired plants (1). As the war dragged on,…
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Thursday’s Child
When my first child was born at 5:24 A.M. 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…
