Dr. Jalayne Lapke is program director for the Pediatric Residency Program at the University of Illinois College of Medicine at Peoria, where she’s also an associate professor of clinical pediatrics. She talks about future trends in pediatrics, the Caterpillar Faculty Scholars, and more.
For a variety of reasons, many women take more than one walk down the aisle. With this comes new questions: How do we involve the kids in the wedding? Would it be easier to plan a destination wedding?
One year ago, Jill Bean, advanced practice nurse and women’s issues expert a new kind of health center for women. "It’s a space where women could come and talk about the ups and downs of everyday living, from personal problems to the social/political issues that specifically influence the ways women think, feel, and act."
I always tried to be brave, but I shed a tear or two when leaving my children at school for the first day. I thought eventually I would become immune to the "first day of separation," but that first day of kindergarten and the first day of college-and every year in between-stimulated the same emotion in me.
A child is dying of cancer. Mom’s got Alzheimer’s. Dad has diabetes. A friend has arthritis. The neighbor has Parkinson’s, and up the block, a kid with a once bright future rests paralyzed in bed with a spinal cord injury, a casualty of a new motorcycle. Want to help? Really help? Encourage Illinois moms to donate-not throw away-the umbilical cord stem cells.
