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The next Yinova Book Club will be held on April 28th at 6:00 pm EST and will be led by Yinova Founder and Jill Blakeway where she will be discussing her book, Making Babies: A Proven Three Month Program for Maximum Fertility. (You can also download this book on Audible.) The discussion is free to […]

The Yinova Book Club’s selection for our March meeting is a novel that’s drawn attention for a startling relevance to current events. Irish-Canadian author Emma Donoghue has received a number of literary awards since her career began in 1994, but her latest novel has earned a different distinction. The Pull of the Stars, set in […]

For this month’s Yinova Book Club, we will be reading “The Big Letdown” by Kimberly Seals Allers. This book outlines the sensitive topic of lactation and how certain external factors do a lot to influence how new parents think about it.  “Pediatricians say you should but it’s okay if you don’t. The hospital says, “Breast is best,” […]

A 35-year-old patient came to see me for periods that were so heavy that they’d had been diagnosed with anemia. A 45-year-old patient came to me with an abdomen that protruded so much that their friend had mistakenly thought they were pregnant. A 39-year-old patient of mine had been having difficulty conceiving. What all these patients […]

Here at Yinova, many of our patients are feeling off-kilter right now and have flagged that their cyclical patterns (from menstruation to sleep; eating habits to adjusting to seasonal change, and more) are running amuck. Whenever our routines are disrupted, our cycles also tend to get disrupted; all of our cycles.  Establishing a routine When […]

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 […]

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 […]