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		<title>What to Get the Pregnant Lady on Your List: Gifts for Every Trimester</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 12 Dec 2008 17:00:07 +0000</pubDate>
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When you are pregnant, you get lots of gifts—most of them useful, all of them for the baby. That&#8217;s great, but baby-centric gifts are best saved for the baby shower. The holidays should be a time to remember that a pregnant woman is not only still her own person, but one who is under a [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=pokedandprodded.health.com&blog=2779996&post=5096&subd=healthpoked&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Web Making You Sick? Help for &#8220;Cyberchondriacs&#8221;</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 11 Dec 2008 04:00:58 +0000</pubDate>
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Ever googled a minor symptom only to come away convinced you had a serious disease?
You&#8217;re not alone. In a Microsoft Research study released this month, a quarter of respondents said they use the Internet as they would a medical expert, and more than 90% of those surveyed said medical Web searches had, at least once, [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=pokedandprodded.health.com&blog=2779996&post=4896&subd=healthpoked&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Happier Holiday Travel: 8 Ways to Minimize Jet Lag in Kids</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 24 Nov 2008 04:30:53 +0000</pubDate>
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Recently, I took my 1-year-old daughter to San Francisco to visit old friends. It was her first time crossing multiple time zones, and I worried that the change would have us all up at 4 a.m. reading Baby&#8217;s Day 14 times in a row. So I asked my online parents&#8217; group how to prepare.
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		<title>Medical Writing You Don&#8217;t Want to Miss</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 10 Oct 2008 11:00:56 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I wanted to marry a doctor or a lawyer. Not because of the slab of bacon he&#8217;d bring home (though that would&#8217;ve been nice), but because I am so fascinated by medicine and law that I imagined never getting bored at the dinner table.
Well, I ended up with a fellow journalist. The paycheck may not [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=pokedandprodded.health.com&blog=2779996&post=3132&subd=healthpoked&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Evolution of Trojan Man</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 07 Oct 2008 14:00:23 +0000</pubDate>
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When I was in middle school, I remember giggling at a condom ad that ran on late-night radio. A couple would be about to, you know, do it! when Trojan Man would ride up on his horse and give the amorous pair a simple weapon in the war against sexually transmitted diseases and unwanted pregnancy: [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=pokedandprodded.health.com&blog=2779996&post=2951&subd=healthpoked&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>You Have to Prepare for Breast-Feeding Success</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 02 Sep 2008 11:00:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kate Rope</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Learn how to breast-feed before you give birth: That&#8217;s the advice I gave to a friend of mine who is about to have her first child. With a 10-month-old on my hip, I&#8217;m no expert on all things parental, but I did feel confident offering her the &#8220;learn now&#8221; nugget of wisdom.
It may seem counterintuitive [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=pokedandprodded.health.com&blog=2779996&post=1660&subd=healthpoked&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Smiling Babies Make Moms Happy</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 07 Jul 2008 11:00:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kate Rope</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Pop quiz: That headline is a) printed on a T-shirt I picked up in a Tokyo novelty shop last week, b) a really freakin&#8217; obvious statement, or c) the results of a study published in the July issue of the journal Pediatrics.
If you went with b) and c), you&#8217;re a genius! Yes, it&#8217;s true; scientists [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=pokedandprodded.health.com&blog=2779996&post=398&subd=healthpoked&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>My Wild Ride in the Cardiac MRI</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 24 Jun 2008 14:00:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kate Rope</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I imagine that being shot out of a cannon at the circus is probably not too much different than undergoing a cardiac MRI. Only instead of sporting an Evel Knievel jumpsuit with cape and flying through the air to execute a stunt landing, you are shivering in a cotton hospital gown, stuck in a tight [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=pokedandprodded.health.com&blog=2779996&post=374&subd=healthpoked&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Good News: Lupus Expert Declares Me Unimpressive</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 17 Jun 2008 13:30:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kate Rope</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Good news, dear readers, my new rheumatologist listened to my long and detailed history, asked me a battery of questions (&#8220;Do you have any joint pain?&#8221; &#8220;What about rashes?&#8221; &#8220;Do your eyes ever feel dry?&#8221;) and declared herself &#8220;unimpressed.&#8221; As an expert on lupus and pregnancy, she quickly pointed out that I did not meet [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=pokedandprodded.health.com&blog=2779996&post=348&subd=healthpoked&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Tracking Down a Medical Expert: The Process and the Cost</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 10 Jun 2008 14:00:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kate Rope</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It was time to track down an expert on autoimmune disease and pregnancy. My mystery chest pain (which first reared its ugly head during my pregnancy) had returned when my daughter was 3 months old, and my rheumatologist wanted me to consider going on a drug I couldn&#8217;t use while breast-feeding. That was a deal [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=pokedandprodded.health.com&blog=2779996&post=310&subd=healthpoked&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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