I haven’t posted in forever and I know that you’ve all missed my stories from classroom. Like today in a parent-teacher-counselor conference when I told the parent: Your child needs to suck it up and drop the middle school behaviors. But I digress… Today was the annual “Breas...

  We here at Scanner are in no way medical professionals. So why in the world would we seek medical advice from others who are? Instead, we like to ask our friends what's up. That's right, we asked a boy who has no medical training whatsoever to break down female birth control for us, b...

We have heard of taking vitamins but this seems excessive.  Suzanne Somers was visited Oprah’s show on Thursday and shared her daily routine with viewers. A firm believer in bio-identical hormones, Suzanne has been a strong advocate.  She travels the country speaking on the subject and has w...

Sorry for all the quietude on the blog, but every now and again off-line stuff (especially therapy and writing projects) swallow me up. This has been one of those months, and my posts may get a tad spotty at times. I just " twittered " about using the next few hours to catch up on stuff I'd planned ...

Two people familiar with Steve Jobs’ current medical treatment said he was not suffering from a recurrence of cancer, but a condition that was preventing his body from absorbing food, reports the New York Times. Doctors have also advised him to cut down on stress, which may be making the problem w...

Those I follow on Twitter are consumed today with the maneuverings from Macworld 2009 (absent a hormone-imbalanced Mr. Jobs). As Mark Collier wrote: "Twitter is constipated, can I assume that MacWorld is underway?" Dave Winer lamented: " Oh great. Garageband. I don't use that either." Ryan Block hit...

Is Steve Jobs dying? I don’t think he is. A survivor of pancreatic cancer is bound to have a host of follow-up problems that aren’t necessarily terminal. Indeed, the fine details of Jobs’ testoserone levels are hardly the issue. The real point is that Apple has most of of its eggs ...

Filed under: Newborns, Pregnancy & birth, Bump watch Former supermodel turned actor turned sexy mutant Rebecca Romijn has finally become a mommy! The Ugly Betty star, who at one point claimed she was ready to have the babies as she felt as big as a beached whale, gave birth to twin girls accordi...

Filed under: Pregnancy & birth, That's entertainment When the mother of your child(ren) was pregnant, did it seem, at times, like she was another person? For those of you who were pregnant, did you find there were times when you just didn't feel like yourself? The mysteries of pregnancy are far ...

Colbert’s “Cheating Death” segment usually contains some quality snark. This particular piece opens with a satire on hormones being pushed to women throughout the lifecycle. Then, starting at 2:10: Stephen Colbert: “Next up: Heart Health. Folks: Drugs called “statins...