Today I would like to talk about a serious matter, BULLYING. From the bus stop to the playground it seems to surround us like the…
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As President of the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) I have had the wonderful opportunity to work with Linda Rozell-Shannon, PhD for the past three…
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Solveig Hagen (hagen333@umn.edu) and Katie Grey (greyx013@umn.edu), medical students at the University of Minnesota and Drs. Dorota Korta (dkorta@uci.edu) and Kristen Kelly (kmkelly@uci.edu), dermatologists at…
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It was a normal pregnancy, 40 weeks no complications- our first child. The second she was born, the doctors took her to do the initial…
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When Aiden was born, he had a dark purple birthmark on the right side of his face. The attending pediatrician at the hospital told me…
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Edie was born in Los Angeles in 2008. The doctor that delivered her looked at the birthmark on her leg and stated that the baby…
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The doctor asked my parents, "Do you have additional questions?" Is this diagnosis common? No. Will Mallory grow out of it? No. Can you treat…
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On my 50 th birthday (in 2012), my niece wrote on my timeline “Happy Half Century”; it was an eye opener for me. Looking back,…
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I am 27 years old and was finally diagnosed with a venous malformation of the left elbow and forearm in Jan. of 2005. This was…
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My name is Melissa A. Freeman. I am 36 yrs. Old. I have a Venous Vascular Malformation on the right side of my face. This…
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