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Homefirst Health Services, based in Rolling Meadows, Illinois, is a sizable medical practice and the largest physician and midwife attended homebirth practice in the United States. Healthfirst has five offices in the metropolitan Chicago area. Homefirst promotes an integrative, evidence-based medicine approach to managing illness. Rolling Meadows is a city located in Cook County, Illinois. ...
Physician examining a child The word physician should not be confused with physicist, which means a scientist in the area of physics. ...
Midwifery is a blanket term used to describe a number of different types of health practitioners, other than doctors, who provide prenatal care to expecting mothers, attend the birth of the infant and provide postnatal care to the mother and infant. ...
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Evidence-based medicine (EBM) is a medical movement based upon the application of the scientific method to medical practice, recognizing that many long-established medical traditions are not yet subjected to adequate scientific scrutiny. ...
An atypical practice Homefirst has a less than five percent cesarean section rate and a minimal reliance upon prescription drugs, antibiotics and medical intervention as a first line of treatment. Homefirst's clientele tends toward the better educated, and towards those who follow healthier diets and who breast-feed their children much longer than the norm; half of Homefirst's mothers are still breast-feeding at two years. Homefirst doctors have delivered more than 15,000 babies at home. A caesarean section (cesarean section AE), is a surgical incision through a mothers abdomen (laparotomy) and uterus (hysterotomy) to deliver one or more fetuses. ...
Dr. Mayer Eisenstein, founder Homefirst's medical director, Mayer Eisenstein, MD, JD, MPH, founded the practice in 1973, and is a critic of the Center for Disease Control's vaccination policies. Eisenstien has formulated a number of natural pharmaceutical alternatives used by Homefirst. 1973 (MCMLXXIII) was a common year starting on Monday. ...
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) in Atlanta is recognized as the lead United States agency for protecting the public health and safety of people by providing credible information to enhance health decisions, and promoting health through strong partnerships with state health departments and other organizations. ...
Pharmacology (in Greek: pharmacon is drug, and logos is science) is the study of how chemical substances interfere with living systems. ...
See also Vaccine topics 2000 Simpsonwood CDC conference AIDS vaccine Andrew Wakefield Edward Jenner Edward Yazbak Generation Rescue Genetics Immunization Immunology Inoculation MMR vaccine Safe Minds Timeline of vaccines Vaccination Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System Vaccine controversy Vaccines and Fetal Tissue ...
Midwifery is a blanket term used to describe a number of different types of health practitioners, other than physicians, who provide prenatal care to expecting mothers, attend the birth of the infant and provide postpartum care to the mother and infant. ...
Over the past two decades, the recommended vaccination schedule in the United States and elsewhere has grown rapidly and become more complicated as many new vaccines have been developed and marketed. ...
External links - Homefirst.com - 'Homefirst® Health Services provides a full range of services in family health care in the greater Chicago metropolitan area with five medical centers' (homepage)
- Mothering.com - 'Caretakers of Homebirth: Doctors Who Come to You', Wendy Correa Mothering (May/June, 2002)
- WashingtonTimes.com - 'A Pretty Big Secret', Dan Olmsted UPI
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