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Parents feeding and looking at their baby.
Momentum

Mental health for first-time parents

June 12, 2025 family,  Menninger Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences,  Mental Health,  Newborn,  parenting,  Postpartum

Dr. Peggy Yang offers advice for first-time parents as they navigate their new normal with a baby in the home.

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Policywise

Humanism: the heart of medicine beyond medical school

June 28, 2024 connection,  family,  Humanism,  medical school,  patient care

Humanism has always been at the heart of medicine. Spending time at the bedside with our patients and connecting with them helps us understand who

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Don’t put your heart health last on your to-do list

February 1, 2024 cardiology,  family,  Heart Health

Holly Shilstone shares how talking to her siblings made her realize she needed to take her heart health seriously.

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A family sitting around a candle-lit holiday meal, while one person stands to carve a turkey.
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Skip the stress this holiday season

November 17, 2022 family,  Holiday Season,  Menninger Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences,  Stress,  Travel

Dr. Yasmine Omar shares ways to help defuse stressful travel and family situations that often come with the holidays.

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Helping the most vulnerable: Kids in foster care

May 27, 2021 children,  Department of Pediatrics,  family,  Foster Care,  health policy,  public health,  Texas Children's Hospital

What can be done to improve the child welfare system and help make the lives of foster care children better?

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Another sibling at 65? DNA testing is redefining the modern family

December 7, 2018 Center for Medical Ethics and Health Policy,  DNA,  Dr. Thomas Wheeler,  family,  Sperm Donor

I remember the day well. It was a Sunday afternoon several months ago when I received this text from my oldest daughter – “I think

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Life after the death of my child

July 6, 2018 clinical ethics,  family,  Grief,  Jill Oliver Robinson

Before my eight-month-old daughter, Abby, died unexpectedly, I thought I knew plenty about grief. The pervasively popular five stages of grief model, developed by Dr.

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The role of family relationships during recovery from mental illness

June 8, 2016 Affiliates,  Baylor Psychiatry Clinic,  Dr. Jon Allen,  family,  Healthcare,  Houston,  Janice Poplack,  Menninger Clinic,  Menninger Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences,  Mental Health,  Nicole Blanton,  Psychiatry

Families coping with the mental illness of a loved one are often overwhelmed by a range of emotions. Dr. Jon G. Allen, assistant professor of

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Blood vessels (magenta) intertwined with metastatic medulloblastoma tumor cells (green) nestled within the protective layers that surround the mouse spinal cord. From the Labs: a closer look at metastatic medulloblastoma

Healthy Habits: A DOC-umentary Series

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