Kristie McNealy, MD

Solid medical research is the key to learning more about the causes of and potential treatments for autism. In my mind, the autism-vaccine question has been answered, and it is more than time to stop wasting scarce research dollars and move on to other avenues of research that stand to have an actual benefit for [...]

According to new research published in Nature Medicine, preeclampsia may be an autoimmune condition. Investigators were able to induce the symptoms of preeclampsia in mice by injecting them with autoantibodies obtained from women with preeclampsia. The most exciting thing about this research is that symptoms were prevented when

As you might have noticed, preeclampsia has been in the news a lot lately.  That’s a good thing, because it’s a dangerous condition for both mom and baby which has impacted the lives of many of our readers.  Now, you can read about a new study linking high blood pressure in pregnancy to certain viral [...]