Ever wonder about the air your child breathes? One national newspaper is urging parents to look more closely outside the schoolhouse door. USA Today spent eight months examining the impact of industrial pollution on the air outside schools nationwide. Using a government model for tracking toxic chemicals, the newspaper ranked 127,800 public, private and parochial schools based on the concentrations of chemicals likely to be in the outside air. ...more

December 12, 2008

By SHELLY HOLMSTROM, MD Tribune correspondent Nearly every day, I see patients who have received an abnormal Pap test result in my gynecology office. These abnormal results can trigger tremendous anxiety, so I spend significant time educating my patients about what the results may mean. ...more

October 11, 2008