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    Dr. Karp

    Dr. Karp

  • Help! There's a Neanderthal in My Kitchen!

    I love toddlers! Just for the record, when I say toddlers, I don't just mean 2-year-olds. This wacky, willful time starts at eight months -- when infants are almost ready to "toddle" -- and stretches all the way to 5 years. But -- and I'm sure I don't have to tell you this -- at times they can reall

  • Tears for Baby, Tears for Parents

    Recently, I was reading through Lisa Belkin's column, Motherlode , in the New York Times and came across a blog called "Too Much Crying?" It was a guest post from a mother named Lee, who shared her exhausting and demoralizing battle with herinfant's colic, or persistent crying. After reading her hea

  • Chemicals 101: Are Toxics Hiding Out in Your Home?

    Teaching families how to avoid toxic chemicals in their daily lives has been one of my passions for the past 20 years. Years ago, some of us in the medical community began to wonder how these thousands and thousands of untested chemicals that were showing up in nature, in consumer products, and in o

  • A Breakthrough in Medical Education: The Breast Cancer DVD Every Woman Should See!

    Breast cancer is an illness that has always been a real concern to me. Many of my friends have been among the 248,000 women are diagnosed with breast cancer each year. And I am very sad to say, some have been among the 52,600 dying from it annually in our great nation.

  • New Study Finds Fathers Equally at Risk for Postpartum Depression

    "Your turn." New parents have uttered this phrase to one another hundreds of times in response to their crying infants. In most households, it's become second nature for both moms and dads to take turns calming their little ones. There's no doubt about it: when it comes to pregnancy and birth, mothe