Randi Epstein

The Crossroads of Science and Society:

How the Science of Sex Hormones, Genes, and Reproduction Effects our Day to Day Lives

Randi Epstein Randi Hutter Epstein, M.D., M.P.H. is a freelance medical writer who has worked as a medical reporter for the London bureau of The Associated Press and has had articles published in The New York Times, The Daily Telegraph, The Washington Post, MORE, Geographical, Parents and other national magazines. Read More...

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It’s Easier to Talk to Your Kids about Sex Than Weight

Here’s what my teenage kids hate more than anything: When I start talking condoms and alcohol and drugs all those things that they think are none of my business but really are all of my business. As much as they squirm, I really don’t find those conversations tricky at all. I rather enjoy them. But there is one subject that
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Did you hear the one about the birth, the pig and the logger?

Poor Nathanael Johnson. He made a huge error in his new book All Natural: A Skeptics Quest to Discover if the Natural Approach to Diet, Childbirth, Healing, the Environment Really Keeps us Healthier and Happier. Didn’t anyone tell him that the way to sell books these days is to skim over the research, tap into the juicy bits that match
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The Accidental Activist: From Sperm to Politicians

    When Dr. Stephanie Dahl returned to her native North Dakota after a fellowship in reproductive medicine further east, she imagined she would join the region’s only fertility clinic helping people make babies. Simple as that. In 2006, it was the only fertility clinic between Minneapolis and Seattle. She expected a flood of patients. What she never expected was
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