Kristie McNealy, MD

It seems as though my love of medicine has rubbed off on my oldest daughter.  Maybe it was those 6 months she spent sitting in the back of the lecture hall with me before she turned one, or maybe it’s genetic.  I guess we’ll never know for sure.  Either way, as a homeschooling mom with [...]

In the process of reaching our family goals of becoming healthier, and becoming less dependent on convenience items like packaged or frozen foods, one of the biggest changes we’ve made in our lives is learning to cook more foods from scratch. One of the biggest motivators for this change came when we came to [...]

Number crunching by the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality revealed that in 2005, circumcision rates varied widely by region across the United States. The Midwest sported the highest rate, at 75%, while the western US had the lowest rate at only 31%. In total, the circumcision rate is 56%, a rate that [...]