Kristie McNealy, MD

Did you know that the American Cancer Society estimates that 182,460 new cases of invasive breast cancer will be diagnosed in women in the United States, and 40,480 will die of breast cancer this year? Thankfully, the 5-year survival rate for breast cancer is 90%, and that number is even higher if the [...]

Most women are familiar with the phrase “breast is best” in regards to infant feeding, but here are 3 lesser known benefits to breastfeeding you might not have heard about:

Women in a recent study who breastfed for 13 months or more were shown to have half the risk of developing rheumatoid arthritis.
Breastfeeding reduces both pre- [...]

Tomorrow, we’ll be getting back to our regularly scheduled programming. We appreciate everyone’s patience with the recent problems with the site, including outages, and pages loading extremely slowly. We’re 99.9% sure we’ve got the problem solved, so things should be back to normal from here on out.
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