by Ann Beach | Aug 16, 2025 | Medicine
Do you still have your kids’ baby teeth in the back of the jewelry box somewhere? Does your mom still have yours? Do you know there was a time when baby teeth changed world political policy? It all goes back to the 1940s-1950s. The first nuclear bomb test blast was in...
by Ann Beach | Jul 21, 2025 | Medicine
People like to characterize present-day parents as helicopters, always hovering over their children, children who have every moment of their day scheduled and supervised. Those same people think of Boomer Babies as free-range kids, who were kicked out of the house in...
by Ann Beach | Jul 11, 2025 | Medicine
The late 19th and early 20th Century was a time of optimism about many things, but not about premature babies. In an era that celebrated healthy babies, with Better Baby contests, awarding prizes to the biggest, fittest, best-looking babies, there was little to offer...
by Ann Beach | Jun 30, 2025 | Medicine
Horseshoe crabs have been around for 450 million years. They’ve survived several mass extinctions and have outlived the dinosaurs. Arthropods more related to spiders than crabs, these primitive, resilient sea creatures are coastal dwellers, preferring the ocean...
by Ann Beach | Jun 23, 2025 | Medicine
Perhaps your travels are taking you abroad this summer. And you’re still looking for those unusual medical museums. I have more suggestions for you. More years ago than I want to admit, I was a hippie with a backpack, hitchhiking around Europe. Even then, I wanted to...
