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For this month’s Yinova Book Club, we will be reading “The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down: A Hmong Child, Her American Doctors, and the Collision of Two Cultures” by Anne Fadiman.  This book explores a clash of cultures between a small hospital in California and a refugee family from Laos and how cultural […]

Choosing to pursue IVF can leave you with many questions. One of the most common questions we hear a lot at Yinova is, “How much IVF is too much?” This is an excellent question and like so many important questions posed to medical practitioners: it depends.  We live in a time and place where Assisted […]

Spring cleaning is a common chore we do every year; it helps us refresh and bring balance and order into our homes. Much like our homes, spring cleaning our bodies can be a nice transition into the new season, but choosing the right cleanse for you is a process in itself.  Before we talk about how […]

My connection to emergency medicine goes back a long time. Formally an FDNY paramedic in Harlem back in the ’90s, I recently renewed my paramedic license as a way to stay connected to emergency medicine and to my family in the field.  Frontline workers have been on my mind a lot throughout this pandemic as […]

As someone who has lived in a major city for over a decade, I have lost touch with the seasonal blooms of flowers. COVID-19 brought me back to the suburbs for quarantine and slowed down my typical pace of life. I decided to take this opportunity to become the foraging herbalist I imagined I would […]

Join us for an eight-week Fertility Coaching and Support Group led by two Yinova Chinese medicine practitioners. Together we will take 8 weeks to enhance fertility, based on the program designed by our founder, Jill Blakeway, from her best selling book Making Babies. We will keep all groups small so that everyone can receive individual advice […]

The outbreak of COVID-19 has left parents scrambling. Since my son Christopher (aged 5) has started school, there have been times where I’ve had to have meaningful conversations with him. Topics such as bullying, being kind to others, sharing, and what it means to be a friend has popped up on more than one occasion. […]

We are living in uncertain times, and with uncertainty brings a level of heightened stress. As I write this, the COVID-19 global pandemic is at its peak in the US: most businesses are shut, many people have lost their jobs, and thousands are being diagnosed with a potentially deadly virus each day. We have truly […]

Changes in our weather patterns can impact more than just the clothing choices we make; it can also impact our mental health. With more dramatic shifts in our environment – from fires to earthquakes, volcanic eruptions to shocking temperatures – instances of environmental trauma are becoming increasingly prevalent. In this article, I will share some simple […]

Many women come to me before getting their period who are suffering from acne. This is also a common complaint of women who have recently come off the pill. The skin is the largest organ in the human body yet so often we neglect it unless something goes wrong. When issues present on the skin, […]