Katherine (Katie) Brind’Amour is a freelance medical and health science writer based in Pennsylvania. She has written about nearly every therapeutic area for patients, doctors and the general public. Dr. Brind’Amour specializes in health literacy and patient education. She completed her BS and MS degrees in Biology at Arizona State University and her PhD in Health Services Management and Policy at The Ohio State University. She is a Certified Health Education Specialist and is interested ...| pediatricsnationwide.org
As the daughter of a Wisconsin dairy farmer, Sarah Keim, PhD, has a keen grasp on the importance of testing milk for safe consumption.| Pediatrics Nationwide
When student researcher Shareef Dabdoub discovered the appealing aesthetics of a transcriptional regulator from the Streptococcus family, he knew that cellular biology had handed him a work of art. And by using a computer program to predict the 3-D configuration of the molecule and its most probable pathway for rearranging from one state to another, he observed molecular poetry in motion. Then his faculty advisor, William C. Ray, PhD, took the process one step further: He turned that motion...| Pediatrics Nationwide
More than half of all sexually active teen girls take combination hormonal contraceptives and many more teens take them to treat other health conditions. Contraceptive users are up to six times more likely to have a blood clot than non-users, and recent data indicate that as many as one in 10 females who experience blood clots are younger than 20.| Pediatrics Nationwide