Daylight Saving Time Is the Worst
On Sunday, March 10 at 2 a.m., the U.S. and about a third of the world’s other countries will set their clocks forward by one hour, which will make the sun seem to rise later in the morning and hang in the sky longer in the evening. I am not alone in dreading it. Plenty of people want nothing to do with the whole hoary practice.
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It’s bad for health, bad for safety, bad for your mood, and just plain unpopular. But that doesn’t stop us from changing the clocks, pointlessly, twice a year.
The ridiculous history of Daylight Saving Time
The first push for ...
Source: TIME: Health - March 7, 2024 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Jeffrey Kluger Tags: Uncategorized healthscienceclimate Source Type: news
Placenta Issues Linked to Newborns' Brain Aberrations in Congenital Heart Disease
(MedPage Today) -- Among babies with severe congenital heart disease (CHD), neurological abnormalities tended to cluster in those who had been exposed to some placental pathology while still in the womb, a single-center prospective study found... (Source: MedPage Today Cardiovascular)
Source: MedPage Today Cardiovascular - March 1, 2024 Category: Cardiology Source Type: news
Mom's Grief During Pregnancy Could Pass Heart Trouble to Her Child
WEDNESDAY, Feb. 28, 2024 -- Babies born to mothers who experience profound grief during pregnancy may be vulnerable to heart failure much later in life, new research suggests. " If future studies support our findings, the implementation of early... (Source: Drugs.com - Daily MedNews)
Source: Drugs.com - Daily MedNews - February 28, 2024 Category: General Medicine Source Type: news
A Doctor ’s Lifelong Quest to Solve One of Pediatric Medicine’s Greatest Mysteries
For 40 years, Dr. Jane Burns has been working to find the cause of Kawasaki disease, an illness that can lead to aneurysms and heart attacks. Her work has brought together a most unlikely team. (Source: NYT Health)
Source: NYT Health - February 27, 2024 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Emily Baumgaertner and Ariana Drehsler Tags: your-feed-science Kawasaki Disease Heart Doctors Children and Childhood Babies and Infants Aneurysms Deaths (Fatalities) University of California, San Diego Dr. Jane Burns your-feed-healthcare Japan San Diego (Calif) United State Source Type: news
Scandal of unlicensed midwives linked to deaths of hundreds of newborns - as mother tells DailyMail.com that 'fake' practitioner ignored signs baby's heart was failing
Speaking to DailyMail.com, Danielle Yeager from Nevada claims her midwife dismissed concerns over the safety of her baby, leading to the death of her first-born, Gavin. (Source: the Mail online | Health)
Source: the Mail online | Health - February 24, 2024 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
Down syndrome identified in 2600-year-old infants through their DNA
Between 770 and 550 B.C.E., in a hilltop village called Alto de la Cruz near the modern Spanish city of Navarro, one infant girl received an unusual burial: Although people in Iron Age Spain usually cremated their dead, the girl was laid to rest beneath the floors of an elaborately decorated dwelling, with grave goods including bronze rings, a shell from the Mediterranean, and three whole sheep or goats.
And she wasn’t alone: Archaeologists working in the 1940s and ’50s found dozens of infants buried below the floors in Alto de la Cruz and another nearby village built more than 2600 years ago. “The main questio...
Source: ScienceNOW - February 20, 2024 Category: Science Source Type: news
A Valentine's Day story of love, legacy and the gift of life
Harley and Justine Duffer with their newest family member, Peyton The Duffer family ’s home is filled with lots of love this Valentine’s Day. They have a new baby girl, and Dad got the lifesaving heart transplant he needed. Take a look at the special way the Duffer family is now recognizing love, legacy and the gift of life. Watch: A Valentine’s Day story about love, legacy a nd the gift of life https://youtu.be/fTwBlCmcpAY Journalists: Broadcast-quality video… (Source: News from Mayo Clinic)
Source: News from Mayo Clinic - February 13, 2024 Category: Databases & Libraries Source Type: news
More Pregnant People Are Relying on Early Prenatal Testing As States Toughen Abortion Laws
WASHINGTON — In Utah, more of Dr. Cara Heuser’s maternal-fetal medicine patients are requesting early ultrasounds, hoping to detect serious problems in time to choose whether to continue the pregnancy or have an abortion.
In North Carolina, more obstetrics patients of Dr. Clayton Alfonso and his colleagues are relying on early genetic screenings that don’t provide a firm diagnosis.
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The reason? New state abortion restrictions mean the clock is ticking.
Since Roe v. Wade was overturned, many health care providers say an increasing number of patient...
Source: TIME: Health - February 12, 2024 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: LAURA UNGAR and AMANDA SEITZ Tags: Uncategorized healthscienceclimate wire Source Type: news
How Therapists Would Change < i > Love Is Blind < /i >
Since premiering on Netflix four years ago, Love Is Blind has produced eight marriages, two soon-to-be babies, a couple of divorces, too many messy breakups to tally, and dozens of hours of entertaining—occasionally appalling—reality television.
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On Feb. 14, the show’s sixth season starts streaming, this time set in Charlotte, N.C. Hosts Nick and Vanessa Lachey will once again guide a group of people eager to find love—and/or social-media followers—through a dating scenario designed to determine if love really is blind. After getting to know each...
Source: TIME: Health - February 12, 2024 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Angela Haupt Tags: Uncategorized healthscienceclimate Source Type: news
Maine coon warming up for cuddles with owner melts hearts
What's more rewarding for a cat owner than the love of their fur baby? A cat called Maxie has melted hearts all over the internet after her owner shared a clip of her getting cuddles from her dad whenever she wants. The heartwarming clip, shared on Instagram in December by @Maxiecoon, shows all…#maxie #maxiecoon #mainecoon #wholesomecatvideo #vetstreet (Source: Reuters: Health)
Source: Reuters: Health - January 7, 2024 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
Month-old baby girl suffered cardiac arrest and died after medics made 'error' giving her heart drugs as parents say tragedy was their 'worst imaginable nightmare'
Parents Amber Cutts, 36, and Lee Clayton, 29, have spoken of their 'worst imaginable nightmare' after little Orla passed away just an hour after being given adenosine. (Source: the Mail online | Health)
Source: the Mail online | Health - January 5, 2024 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
The New RSV Drug Keeps Babies Out of the Hospital
Doctors and parents celebrated the major advances that came in 2023 to treat respiratory syncytial virus (RSV), which sends up to 80,000 children under age five to the hospital each year in the U.S. This year, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration approved two critical ways to reduce the risk of RSV in young kids: a vaccine for pregnant mothers that can protect newborns, and a drug treatment for babies under one year.
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In a study published in the New England Journal of Medicine, researchers report encouraging real-world data that show how effective the drug treatment, nirsevi...
Source: TIME: Health - December 27, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Alice Park Tags: Uncategorized healthscienceclimate Source Type: news
Moms on why they want son to know his sperm donor: " Part of our family "
"Our donor is incredible—he is kind, thoughtful, and has the best heart," moms Paige Kennedy-Winston and Danielle Winston told Newsweek. The pair, from Arlington, Virginia, welcomed baby Lucas four months ago, and used a sperm donor, Flavio. Over the past two decades, an increasing number of…#paigekennedywinston #daniellewinston #arlington #virginia #lucas #danielle #tiktok #rome #seedscout #denmark (Source: Reuters: Health)
Source: Reuters: Health - December 24, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
Calls to test babies for gene fault that makes cholesterol rocket from birth - which affects 270,000 Britons including 60,000 children
Toddlers with a common genetic fault can have 'hidden' cholesterol levels twice an adult, putting them at risk of heart attacks and strokes. Rianna Wingett, died of a heart attack age 11. (Source: the Mail online | Health)
Source: the Mail online | Health - December 23, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
Genetics group slams company for using its data to screen embryos ’ genomes
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Jocelyn Kaiser
On 5 December, a U.S. company called Orchid Health announced that it would begin to offer fertility clinics and their hopeful customers the unprecedented option to sequence the whole genomes of embryos conceived by in vitro fertilization (IVF). “Find the embryo at lowest risk for a disease that runs in your family,” touts the company’s website. The cost: $2500 per embryo.
Altho...
Source: ScienceNOW - December 15, 2023 Category: Science Source Type: news