WASHINGTON, D.C.— Santa Monica Breast Surgeon and Founder of the Pink Lotus Breast Center Kristi Funk, MD, FACS, received the Benjamin Spock Award for Compassion in Medicine at the International ...

“Since he was the first of six children . . . his mother was particularly careful about what she fed him (after your second or third you don’t worry so much about what the book says), and in 1903 she ...

Mention the name Spock to young parents and children of today and the majority of responses will describe a character in the “Star Trek” TV show or films. But my first awareness of the name Spock came ...

Pediatrician Dr. Benjamin Spock interacting with children in 1979. His bestselling book, "The Common Sense Book of Baby and Child Care," was published in 1946 and helped alter ideas about child ...

In my case, at least, the timing was impeccable. Many decades ago this week, just as I was making my debut as a member of the human race, a young, largely unknown pediatrician published a book about ...