The baby formula shortage puts your baby ’s brain at risk
The baby formula shortage has morphed into a full-blown ongoing crisis. Many stores report that more than half of baby formula products are out of stock. Babies who are six months old or younger should only be fed breast milk or formula. Any substitute may be nutritionally incomplete and may cause babies to have permanentRead more …The baby formula shortage puts your baby ’s brain at risk originally appeared inKevinMD.com. (Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog)
Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog - May 23, 2022 Category: General Medicine Authors: < span itemprop="author" > < a href="https://www.kevinmd.com/post-author/marc-arginteanu" rel="tag" data-wpel-link="internal" > Marc Arginteanu, MD < /a > < /span > Tags: Conditions Neurology Source Type: blogs
Case of the Week 683
Answer to Case 683:Cryptosporidiumsp. oocystsThe following OUTSTANDING discussion is from our guest author, Hadel Go, a third year medical student with a strong interest in clinical parasitology._________________________________________We received some excellent feedback! Thank you all for leaving comments on the blog, on Twitter, and on LinkedIn.Yes, these areCryptosporidium oocysts. These protozoans can be identified by their size and consistent red color on modified acid-fast staining of stool samples. They can also be diagnosed from H&E stained tissue biopsies (see images here:Cryptosporidium, parasitewonders.com),...
Source: Creepy Dreadful Wonderful Parasites - May 22, 2022 Category: Parasitology Source Type: blogs
Parenting Instagram accounts can make mothers feel supported, but also less competent
By Emily Reynolds
Adjusting to parenting can be difficult for many new parents — particularly when it comes to judging their own competence or knowing whether or not they are doing the “right” thing. Subsequently, many new parents seek advice: from peers, family members, friends, and, increasingly, from social media.
A new study, published in Acta Psychologica, explores the impact of parenting-related Instagram accounts on mothers. It finds a mixed experience: while mothers can feel supported by a community of fellow parents, they can also feel less competent when comparing themselves to others.
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Source: BPS RESEARCH DIGEST - May 18, 2022 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: BPS Research Digest Tags: Babies Media Social Source Type: blogs
Impact of Covid-19 on fertility treatment 2020
This report looks at changes in UK fertility treatment during the Covid-19 pandemic, including treatment numbers, funding, and donation. The report reveals that NHS-funded IVF treatments fell by seven per cent across the UK (35 per cent, 2019 to 28 per cent, 2020), with almost 26,000 patients over 35 receiving IVF treatments; a group prioritised by clinics as the chance of having a baby following fertility treatment decreases with age. The HFEA say this latest data confirms that fewer patients experienced delays during the pandemic than initially feared. This actually shows, a very small drop in treatments given the far-re...
Source: Health Management Specialist Library - May 17, 2022 Category: UK Health Authors: The King ' s Fund Library Tags: Covid-19 NHS performance and productivity Source Type: blogs
All mothers deserve to give their newborns the best start in life
A guest column by the American Society of Anesthesiologists, exclusive to KevinMD. As leaders in patient safety, anesthesiologists are committed to improving patient care and positively impacting the experiences of expectant mothers to ensure the health and safety of mom and baby. Along with primary health care provide rs, anesthesiologists are available to help expectant mothers developRead more …All mothers deserve to give their newborns the best start in life originally appeared inKevinMD.com. (Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog)
Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog - May 12, 2022 Category: General Medicine Authors: < span itemprop="author" > < a href="https://www.kevinmd.com/post-author/mark-zakowski" rel="tag" data-wpel-link="internal" > Mark Zakowski, MD < /a > < /span > Tags: Physician Anesthesiology OB/GYN Source Type: blogs
How to Convince a Older Adult with Incontinence to Wear Adult Diapers
Photo credit Mathias Konrath
Incontinence is a condition that is often difficult for a person to accept and deal with. Many seniors try to ignore this new development and carry on with their lives, but a head-in-the-sand approach usually draws more attention to the problem. There are ways to encourage a loved one to address this issue, but they require patience, understanding and a commitment to upholding your loved one’s dignity.
Pro Tip: Strike the Word Diaper from Your Vocabulary
“My parent won’t wear adult diapers and it drives me nuts!”
This is a common complaint from family caregivers whose loved ones are suf...
Source: Minding Our Elders - May 11, 2022 Category: Geriatrics Authors: Carol Bradley Bursack Source Type: blogs
Medicine and motherhood: on call forever
My residency baby just turned eighteen. Obviously, he isn ’t really a baby anymore. He is six foot four and going to college, but somehow, I still think of him as that little baby. Maybe I’m just relieved that “we” both made it to eighteen. By “we,” I mean “me” as a physician mom and “him”Read more …Medicine and motherhood: on call forever originally appeared inKevinMD.com. (Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog)
Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog - May 10, 2022 Category: General Medicine Authors: < span itemprop="author" > < a href="https://www.kevinmd.com/post-author/sarah-c-smith" rel="tag" data-wpel-link="internal" > Sarah C. Smith, DO < /a > < /span > Tags: Physician Primary Care Source Type: blogs
Rock ‐a‐Bye Trade Restrictions on Baby Formula
Gabriella Beaumont-SmithOver the last few months, a U.S. baby formula producer issued recallsbothvoluntarily and required by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA). These recalls arerocking the U.S. baby formula market leaving parents facing higher prices andbare shelves. Stores like Walgreens,CVS Health, andTarget are limiting the number of formula products per purchase because of low inventory —just last month, national out‐of‐stock levels reached40 percent!One reason retailers are struggling to recover stock levels is the multifarious trade restrictions that limit infant formula imports. The United States ...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - May 10, 2022 Category: American Health Authors: Gabriella Beaumont-Smith Source Type: blogs
The A word once again
I ' ve written about abortion here before, and now I ' m pretty much just going to repeat myself, but it ' s time to do so.Point one -- and this is important -- conservative evangelicals had absolutely no problem with abortion until the mid-1970s.Historian Randall Balmer tells the story here, and it is absolutely incontrovertible, as this excerpt makes clear:Both before and for several years afterRoe, evangelicals were overwhelmingly indifferent to the subject, which they considered a “Catholic issue.” In 1968, for instance, a symposium sponsored by the Christian Medical Society andChristianity Today, the flagshi...
Source: Stayin' Alive - May 7, 2022 Category: American Health Source Type: blogs
How The PBM Insulin Scheme Is Poised to Be Disrupted by Civica Rx
So, with this week ' s news focused on other areas (like the Supreme Court), I thought it might be appropriate to focus on something which is still very broken, yet seems poised to be resolved by good old fashioned market forces: insulin prices.The U.S. " market " for insulin is bedeviled by the same problem that causes all U.S. prescription drug prices to be so high: Pharmacy Benefit Managers ( " PBM ' s " ) are manipulating prescription drug discounting behind-the-scenes in order to enrich themselves at everyone else ' s expense. Most discounts PBM ' s collect come in the form of cash rebates, which are paid by pharmaceu...
Source: Scott's Web Log - May 4, 2022 Category: Endocrinology Tags: 2022 biogenerics Biosimilar biosimilars Civica Rx CivicaRx insulin insulin analogs Lilly Novo Nordisk PBM Sanofi Source Type: blogs
The Business of Diabetes: How The PBM Insulin Scheme Is Poised to Be Disrupted by Civica Rx
So, with this week ' s news focused on other areas (like the Supreme Court), I thought it might be appropriate to focus on something which is still very broken, yet seems poised to be resolved by good old fashioned market forces: insulin prices.The U.S. " market " for insulin is bedeviled by the same problem that causes all U.S. prescription drug prices to be so high: Pharmacy Benefit Managers ( " PBM ' s " ) are manipulating prescription drug discounting behind-the-scenes in order to enrich themselves at everyone else ' s expense. Most discounts PBM ' s collect come in the form of cash rebates, which are paid by pharmaceu...
Source: Scott's Web Log - May 4, 2022 Category: Endocrinology Tags: 2022 biogenerics Biosimilar biosimilars Civica Rx CivicaRx insulin insulin analogs Lilly Novo Nordisk PBM Sanofi Source Type: blogs
Ten Super-Creepy Medical Technologies
We are all for new technologies here, spending our days researching where the science of medicine goes. With that said, every now and then we see something so creepy that it freaks out even the seasoned team of The Medical Futurist.
So here we collected ten examples of either super creepy medical technologies or ingeniously evil uses of perfectly innocent technologies.
The blood drawing robots
First, this doesn’t really sound creepy. Drawing blood might not be our favourite thing, but nothing of a terror for most of us either. Vein scanners are around for a while, actually being a useful little tool ...
Source: The Medical Futurist - May 3, 2022 Category: Information Technology Authors: Andrea Koncz Tags: TMF Bioethics Cyborgization Robotics Science Fiction Security & Privacy AI dream smartwatch virtual reality blood draw sleep tracking artificial womb gene editing medical robot creepy technologies Source Type: blogs
The Top 10 Super-Creepy Medical Technologies
We are all for new technologies here, spending our days researching where the science of medicine goes. With that said, every now and then we see something so creepy that it freaks out even the seasoned team of The Medical Futurist.
So here we collected ten examples of either super creepy medical technologies or ingeniously evil uses of perfectly innocent technologies.
The blood drawing robots
First, this doesn’t really sound creepy. Drawing blood might not be our favourite thing, but nothing of a terror for most of us either. Vein scanners are around for a while, actually being a useful little tool ...
Source: The Medical Futurist - May 3, 2022 Category: Information Technology Authors: Andrea Koncz Tags: TMF Bioethics Cyborgization Robotics Science Fiction Security & Privacy AI dream smartwatch virtual reality blood draw sleep tracking artificial womb gene editing medical robot creepy technologies Source Type: blogs
A physician ’s personal great resignation [PODCAST]
“Before retirement, I switched everything I cared about to my personal one and unsubscribed to everything I didn ’t care about. For the first few months, I religiously checked my work email. Sure, I was missing important information. I finally weaned myself like a reluctant nursing baby. On the rare occasions I check my work email,Read more …A physician’s personal great resignation [PODCAST] originally appeared inKevinMD.com. (Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog)
Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog - May 1, 2022 Category: General Medicine Authors: < span itemprop="author" > < a href="https://www.kevinmd.com/post-author/the-podcast-by-kevinmd" rel="tag" data-wpel-link="internal" > The Podcast by KevinMD < /a > < /span > Tags: Podcast Pediatrics Practice Management Source Type: blogs
Sunday Sermonette: The wages of sin are delayed
Ch. 14 tells essentially parallel stories about Jeroboam in Israel and Rehoboam in Judah. Both kingdoms start putting up shrines to other Gods Yahweh gets mad. However, in the case of Jeroboam his vengeance is for some reason delayed. He kills one of Jeroboam ' s babies but another son does succeed Jeroboam, and the kingdom otherwise goes along just fine for the time being. (Yahweh will get around to clobbering them later.) As for Rehoboam and Judah, the consequences aren ' t really all that bad. Pharaoh comes and takes some treasures, and Rehoboam has to replace Solomon ' s gold shields with bronze ones, but that ' s abou...
Source: Stayin' Alive - May 1, 2022 Category: American Health Source Type: blogs
