Why is pre-eclampsia still causing the deaths of mothers and their babies?
The condition affects up to 6% of all pregnancies yet understanding of its causes and how to treat it remains basicHaving had one normal pregnancy, Emma Bailey assumed that her second experience of childbirth would progress relatively smoothly. But, at 34 weeks, she began to suffer sudden bursts of stabbing pain just underneath her ribcage.“It was really excruciating pain,” she remembers. “I was admitted to hospital, but they sent me home, saying it was probably just anxiety. I then had to be readmitted the very next day because I was in agony.”Continue reading... (Source: Guardian Unlimited Science)
Source: Guardian Unlimited Science - November 11, 2023 Category: Science Authors: David Cox Tags: Science Pregnancy Health Maternal mortality Stroke Heart attack High blood pressure Infant and child mortality UK news Aspirin Parents and parenting Medical research Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation Source Type: news
There ’s a Shortage of RSV Treatments. Here’s What Doctors Recommend
A recently approved treatment was supposed to protect babies from RSV, but demand is outpacing the supply of the medication.
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration approved nirsevimab, an antibody that sticks to and prevents Respiratory Syncytial Virus from infecting cells, in July. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) then recommended the medication for all babies either born during the RSV season or those up to eight months old entering their first RSV season, which runs from about November to March. RSV can be a dangerous and potentially deadly disease, especially for infants; about 58,000 to 80,...
Source: TIME: Health - November 2, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Alice Park Tags: Uncategorized healthscienceclimate Source Type: news
Israeli Surgeon Confirms Numerous Babies Were Beheaded in Heart-Wrenching Interview With Dan Abrams
“There’s a truck coming with 150 bodies. Half of them are kids.” This is what Israeli oral surgeon Dr. Naama Samet Rubenstein heard after the October 7 Hamas terrorist attacks on Israeli civilians, as she recounted on NewsNation’s Dan Abrams Live. Host Dan Abrams, the owner of Mediaite,…#israeli #naamasametrubenstein #hamas #newsnation #danabramslive #danabrams #nicolezedeck #kibbutzkfaraza #johnkirby #mediaite (Source: Reuters: Health)
Source: Reuters: Health - October 27, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
How to Get RSV Vaccines to Those Who Need Them Most
The world is entering a new era of vaccines. Following the success of COVID-19 mRNA shots, scientists have a far greater capacity to tailor shots to a virus’s structure, putting a host of new vaccines on the horizon.
The most recent arrivals are several new immunizations against respiratory syncytial virus, or RSV.
These shots are welcome since RSV can be dangerous, even deadly, in the very old and very young. But the shots, produced by Pfizer and GlaxoSmithKline, are also expensive, costing about $300 for those directed at adults, and up to $1,000 for one of the shots, a monoclonal antibody rather than a tradi...
Source: TIME: Health - October 26, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Elisabeth Rosenthal Tags: Uncategorized Drugs Source Type: news
What Are Potential Complications of a Forceps Delivery?
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The main outcome of any delivery is to have a healthy mother and healthy child. For millinea, mothers delivered babies with the help of their mothers and learned women without the benefits of potential instrumented interventions when complications arose, and today they are options for some deliveries. Instrumented delivery techniques have markedly decreased maternal and neonatal morbidity and mortality. Instrument delivery techniques in the second stage of labor includes forceps (begun in the 1600s), vacuum delivery (mainly use began in 1950s) and second stage cesarean section (cesarean section being first used ...
Source: PediatricEducation.org - October 23, 2023 Category: Pediatrics Authors: Pediatric Education Tags: Uncategorized Source Type: news
The big idea: why do we find cuteness so hard to resist?
Is there an evolutionary explanation for the likes of Barbie and Hello Kitty?Saturated in pink and sparkles, theBarbie movie is full of ribbons and hearts, gingham and polka dots: a universe of cuteness. And yet, according to the internet at least, the most adorable thing in the film is not the eponymous heroine but her consort, Ken. Margot Robbie ’s Barbie may be glamorous, but Ryan Gosling’s Ken is cute – quite an accomplishment for a man-baby intent on imposing patriarchy on Barbie Land.Scientists have been studying the nature of cuteness for decades. It ’s now widely accepted that we are hardwired to both look ...
Source: Guardian Unlimited Science - October 16, 2023 Category: Science Authors: Joshua Paul Dale Tags: Evolution Psychology Barbie Books Culture Source Type: news
6 Stories Show the Human Toll of Poland ’ s Strict Abortion Laws
This project was supported by the Pulitzer Center
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Krzysztof Sowinski has cried every day since his wife Marta, who was five months pregnant, died of sepsis in 2022; he believes doctors put Marta’s life in danger by not giving them the option to terminate the pregnancy while the fetus’ heart was still beating. Janusz Kucharski also lost his partner Justyna to sepsis in the fifth month of a pregnancy. She left behind two boys.
It is likely, reproductive-rights advocates say, that these women would be alive if not for Poland’s increasingly restrictive abort...
Source: TIME: Health - October 13, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Anna Pamula Tags: Uncategorized abortion Source Type: news
She Sued Tennessee for Denying Her an Abortion. Now She ’ s Running for Office.
Allie Phillips never wanted to be a politician, but she had always wanted to be a mom of two. Whenever Phillips asked her 5-year-old daughter, Adalie, what she wanted to be when she grew up, Adalie would say, “A big sister.” So when Phillips found out she was pregnant again in Nov. 2022, Adalie was thrilled. “Her eyes got big and her jaw just dropped open,” Phillips recalled. “Every night after that, she sang Twinkle Twinkle, Little Star to my belly. She’d kiss my belly every night before bed.” Phillips and her husband planned to name the new baby Miley Rose.
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Source: TIME: Health - October 12, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Charlotte Alter Tags: Uncategorized feature uspoliticspolicy Source Type: news
‘ Hospital at Home ’ Could Be the Future of Health Care. Not Everyone Thinks It ’ s a Good Idea
In July 2022, Rudie Watzig collapsed. The diagnosis was as serious as it was unexpected—cirrhosis of the liver—and it landed him in the intensive care unit for what he considered a period of sheer torture. “I hated it. I hated being in the hospital,” says Watzig, 44, of Portland, Oregon. “Not seeing my kids … not having my wife there … not having my nice Purple mattress to sleep on.”
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So imagine his chagrin when he was again rushed to the emergency room a few months later, this time for breathing problems due to fluid buildup ...
Source: TIME: Health - October 10, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Lindsay Lyon Tags: Uncategorized Health Care Source Type: news
More Americans Are Living to 100. Get Ready for the Super-Aging Era
It’s a startling projection that conveys an astonishing new American reality: One in every two five-year-olds alive right now will live to 100. That’s according to researchers at Stanford University’s Center on Longevity, who believe a century-long life expectancy will be the norm for all newborns by 2050—less than three decades from now.
Not to mention, more than kindergarteners can anticipate a triple-digit life span. Propelled by aging baby boomers and continued medical advances, the number of centenarians worldwide is expected to increase eightfold. Twenty-five years from now, there will be 3...
Source: TIME: Health - October 6, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: William J. Kole Tags: Uncategorized freelance Source Type: news
What an Owl Taught Me About Life
Five years ago someone found a baby owl, near-death, on their lawn. The wildlife rehabber who stabilized her consulted with me because of my experience with owls and hawks. Eventually my wife and I undertook the task of conditioning “Alfie” for a soft release; waiting out a developmental delay (most of her flight feathers came abnormally late that first summer), then flight training and hunting training. Alfie disappeared for a week. Then she chose to return, centering her territory on our backyard. I put a nest box on my writing studio.
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Alfie’s first free-...
Source: TIME: Science - October 5, 2023 Category: Science Authors: Carl Safina Tags: Uncategorized climate change freelance Source Type: news
' Thinks She's The Mother': Hearts Melt As 120lb Dog Adopts Baby Bunnies
Heart-warming footage of baby bunnies being doted on by a huge dog has surfaced on social media. In a video shared to TikTok by owner Ciera Martin (@cieramartin951), the Newfoundland dog can be seen lying next to the bunnies, snuggling and even cleaning them. The clip caption explained: "My 120 lb…#tiktok #cieramartin #newfoundland #humanesociety #zuri #americankennelclub #martin (Source: Reuters: Health)
Source: Reuters: Health - September 27, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
Geoff Durbin obituary
My husband, Dr Geoff Durbin, who has died aged 78, was a consultant neonatologist whose early research was one of the crucial steps in improving the treatment of babies with breathing difficulties.In 1973 he became a research fellow inSir Osmund Reynolds’s team at University College London (UCL), one of the early pioneers of intensive care for babies. Geoff was at the heart of this work from the very start, undertaking research into continuous positive airway pressure (Cpap) therapy, and on identifying the risk factors associated with bleeding in to the brain.Continue reading... (Source: Guardian Unlimited Science)
Source: Guardian Unlimited Science - September 10, 2023 Category: Science Authors: Anne Durbin Tags: Medicine Health Society Children Premature birth Medical research Source Type: news
Shock as mom of 3 finds snake in kids' toybox: " Oh no "
While nursing her newborn baby, a mother of three in North Carolina saw something that made her heart stop. Entwined among her children's plastic dinosaurs, Jennifer Miyakawa Cloke caught sight of a large black snake. "I was quite surprised to see her," Cloke told Newsweek. "I look over at my…#northcarolina #mecklenburgcounty #cloke #naturetax (Source: Reuters: Health)
Source: Reuters: Health - August 30, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
