Clinical services may not be sensitive to men’s parenting needs. Further, mothers might limit men from being engaged in prenatal and postnatal services. Yet, men have a vital role to play during infancy. To help address the above barriers, Michael Yogman and Craig Garfield, pediatric faculty at the Harvard Medical School and Northwestern Feinberg School of Medicine, respectively, recommended that health care professionals engage in father-friendly practices. These include acknowledging fathers’ presence at health care visits, welcoming fathers directly, educating fathers about parenting and encouraging fathers to assume childcare roles early on.

Dr. Christina Boots, an assistant professor of reproductive health and infertility at Northwestern Medicine’s Feinberg School of Medicine, said about 200 Northwestern patients froze eggs in 2017. A quarter were for medical reasons — cancer treatments, for example, can create infertility, and many patients preserve options. The remainder were women who froze eggs for nonmedical reasons. “You’re single, or your career’s just starting to take off, so you want to take some time,” Boots said. She said doctors at Northwestern are just at the beginning phase of seeing patients who must decide what to do with excess eggs, embryos or sperm they no longer need. “We’ve only been doing (egg freezing) for five years on a regular basis,” she said.

According to a recent Northwestern Medicine and University of Michigan study, the phrase “less money, less life” also applies. Data revealed that a sudden loss of net worth (also known as wealth shock) in middle to older age is associated with a significantly higher risk of death. To be more precise: Lose 75 percent or more of your total wealth in two years and you are 50 percent more likely to die in the next 20 years. “This is the first study that looks at wealth loss in the long term,” said Lindsay Pool, author of the study and research assistant professor of preventive medicine at Northwestern University’s Feinberg School of Medicine.

Dr. Crystal Clark, a psychiatrist and assistant professor of psychiatry and behavioral sciences and obstetrics and gynecology at Northwestern’s Feinberg School of Medicine. […] I do worry that this could be a trigger. We give a lot of publicity to people who have committed suicide – particularly those with celebrity status … And those who are already struggling with suicidal thoughts, who have experienced suicidal thoughts in the past, this could definitely be a trigger for them. And they see this as well, maybe a way out and a method they could use to end their suffering.

So why is Neutrogena recommended more often than other options? “Neutrogena is a brand that patients and families are very familiar with,” says Dr. Lauren Taglia, a dermatologist at Northwestern Medicine Central DuPage Hospital in suburban Chicago. “I know [the company works] with skin care experts to research and develop new products.”[…]People with darker skin, who tend to tan rather than burn, need to use sunscreen as much as people with lighter complexions, Taglia says. She notes that legendary Jamaican singer Bob Marley died of a malignant melanoma that began on his foot. “Skin cancer doesn’t discriminate,” she says.