Sunday Sermonette: Sin and Honor
Basically four things happen in Chapter 12. God sends a messenger, Nathan, to tell David it was bad for him to get Uriah killed and take his wife. Nathan threatens, on behalf of God, to have David ' s wives raped in public. That ' ll teach him! Then he recants the threat and just says that God will kill David ' s and Bathsheba ' s baby. God does kill the Baby. David and Bathsheba have another baby, who will be David ' s successorThe Israelites conquer the Ammonites and enslave them. David gets a new crown (which by the way weighs about 62 pounds).That ' s biblical morality.12 And theLord sent Nath...
Source: Stayin' Alive - January 30, 2022 Category: American Health Source Type: blogs
What's new in midwifery - 28th January 2022
Some new things you may find useful.First, ameta analysis of excess caesarean births in women with COVID, which concluded that vaginal delivery was not associated with worse neonatal or maternal outcomes when compared with caesarean delivery, and that the decision to pursue a caesarean delivery should not be based on COVID status.Thanks to the Healthcare Information for All email forum for that one, and they thank theMaternal Health Task Force, a venture based at Harvard which works to end preventable maternal morbidity and mortality worldwide.Then, areport in BioTechniques of a study that found that COVID antibodies pass ...
Source: Browsing - January 28, 2022 Category: Databases & Libraries Tags: midwifery Source Type: blogs
When Does Research Become a Fixation?
I pull back the curtain a bit today, revealing a deep, dark secret about myself —a secret so dank, surely I’ll lose the last three readers I have.I’ve been reading far too many Japanese light novels lately.It started as a form of research, but now I actually like the darn things. I can’t get enough of them. They’re my personal Pandora’s Box. I opened the beautiful, ornately engraved box, saw the plentiful wonders inside, and now I can’t shut the lid. Is this anADHD obsession, or a newfound joy? I can’t tell, which is why I’m troubled. Have you seen myGoodreads timeline? I r...
Source: The Splintered Mind by Douglas Cootey - January 28, 2022 Category: Psychiatry Tags: ADHD Depression Writing Source Type: blogs
Specialized Moving Services Ease Transitions to Senior Living Communities
Photo credit Matthew Hamilton
When an elderly parent transitions from their home to assisted living, independent living, a nursing home, or a relative’s home, it can be a stressful experience. Mary Jo Zeller, a senior move manager at Gero Solutions in Chicago, says this move is a major life event. “It’s as monumental as getting married or having a baby, but emotionally, it is more akin to grieving a loss.” In addition to difficult emotions, the senior and their family members face a whole host of challenges. What can they bring to their new home? What do they leave behind? What happens to belongings they can’t br...
Source: Minding Our Elders - January 27, 2022 Category: Geriatrics Authors: Carol Bradley Bursack Source Type: blogs
A Diplomatic Hail Mary May Be Ukraine ’s Only Hope
Justin LoganAs Russia continues massing troops on its side of the border with Ukraine (as well as Belarus ’s), it’s worth asking a few questions before deciding what to do.The first, and most important one, is what a Russian invasion of Ukraine means for U.S. national security. The answer is “not much,” which may help explain why the question is so rarely being asked. U.S. Secretary of State Tony Blinkenanswered his own rhetorical question, “why should Americans worry about Ukraine?” by saying the issue isbigger than Ukraine, because what ’s happening is this: You’ve got one country, Russia, by it...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - January 24, 2022 Category: American Health Authors: Justin Logan Source Type: blogs
What's new in midwifery - 21st January 2022
Some recent things you may want to know about:COVID vaccinationUK government urges all pregnant women to get immediate COVID jab (Guardian)Guardian opinion piece on government messaging. Author is a reproductive immunologist.ResearchAssociation of Antenatal Diet and Physical Activity-Based Interventions With Gestational Weight Gain and Pregnancy Outcomes: A Systematic Review and Meta-analysisEffect of chlorhexidine cleansing on healthcare-associated infections in neonates: a systematic review and meta-analysisTerm infant formula supplemented with milk-derived oligosaccharides shifts the gut microbiota closer to that ...
Source: Browsing - January 21, 2022 Category: Databases & Libraries Tags: midwifery Source Type: blogs
I Find This Use Of Children Rather Sad And Offensive Despite The Possibility For Some To Make A Buck.
This appeared last week: Friday, 14 January 2022 11:56 Brisbane lawyer warns parents the consequences of monetising their children's social media accounts By Kenn Anthony Mendoza A Brisbane lawyer has warned parents that monetising their children's appearances on social media could lead to tears. What might have begun as cutesy snaps of a baby in nappies has grown to an income stream as influencer parents promote their children through social media accounts in startup business ventures whose ownership is mired in a legal quagmire. This legal dilemma poses a question: who legally owns those social media accounts, the parent...
Source: Australian Health Information Technology - January 19, 2022 Category: Information Technology Authors: Dr David G More MB PhD Source Type: blogs
BASQUE CENTER ON COGNITION BRAIN AND LANGUAGE -- PreDoc, PostDoc, and Research Fellow Opportunities
FUNDED PREDOCTORAL AND POSTDOCTORAL POSITIONS AT THE BCBL- BASQUE CENTER ON COGNITION BRAIN AND LANGUAGE (SAN SEBASTI ÁN, BASQUE COUNTRY, SPAIN), www.bcbl.eu The Basque Center on Cognition Brain and Language (San Sebasti án, Basque Country, Spain) offers the following positions:FUNDED POSTDOCTORAL CANDIDATE POSITION – Computational Neuroscience Group- AT THE BCBL- BASQUE CENTER ON COGNITION BRAIN AND LANGUAGE (SAN SEBASTIÁN, BASQUE COUNTRY, SPAIN)FUNDED JOINT POSTDOCTORAL CANDIDATE POSITION at the Neurobiology of Language Group, BCBL- BASQUE CENTER ON COGNITION BRAIN AND LANGUAGE (SAN SEBASTI ÁN,...
Source: Talking Brains - January 14, 2022 Category: Neuroscience Authors: Greg Hickok Source Type: blogs
Pushing Back Against Covid Shame
Alyson Isaksson Capp, PhD
The dreaded pink line
bleeding across the test strip
next to the navy
Like a pregnancy testtwo lines means positive said the woman in royal blue scrubs,
unphased that we all had tested positive.
In awe that after almost two years
the thing I had most avoided
had happened,
I left my body.
As I looked down at myself
seeing Her, my body
defending HerSelf,
Her tiny T cells
recognizing the protein spikes,
remembering them by heart,
dismantling them
Later watching as She shouldered the headaches,
parched throat...
Source: blog.bioethics.net - January 7, 2022 Category: Medical Ethics Authors: Blog Editor Tags: COVID-19 pandemic Featured Posts Uncategorized Source Type: blogs
What's new in midwifery - 5th January 2022
My calendar is reminding me it is time for What ' s New, so even though I only did it yesterday, here it is. I plan to be more regular in 2022 with this series of posts.Department of Health and Social Care Policy Paper:Our vision for the women ' s health strategy for England(Thanks to the King ' s Fund Library Health Management and Policy Alert for that).In the newsInquest to be held into the deaths of two mothers who contracted herpes during caesarean sectionsBreastfeeding voyeurism proposed as new offence in England and WalesWoman has baby with " birth dog " at her sideHeadline a little misleading, I think - t...
Source: Browsing - January 5, 2022 Category: Databases & Libraries Tags: midwifery Source Type: blogs
How has COVID impacted Pregnancy Rates?
Speculation has been as much a part of the COVID pandemic as isolation, tv show reunions, endless deliveries of Chipotle, eye glass fog and Zoom fatigue. Since most of us have never lived through anything like this, we naturally wonder about our futures. What will work environments look like, what kind of protections will be developed, what can be done about health care inequity and how do we fix the damned supply chain issues? One particular area of societal interest was and continues to be the birth rate, here and around the globe. After all, history tells us that the number of babies born reflect the times in which we ...
Source: Cord Blood News - January 4, 2022 Category: Perinatology & Neonatology Authors: Jennifer Dembo Tags: babies Cord Tissue parents cord blood pandemic pregnancy Source Type: blogs
The Gobal Syndemic, Part Four: Inequality
Climate change and resource depletion affect everyone, but the magnitude of the impacts depends very much on people ' s wealth and social status, both within and among societies. Furthermore, inequality makes solutions to the global challenges far more difficult. The graph below is a few years old but the basic numbers haven ' t changed. Ten percent of the people consume almost 60% of the resources. Now let ' s look just within the U.S. Looking at this over time, after a period of relative equality following WWII we ' re back to the situation in the Gilded Age. Is it any wonder ...
Source: Stayin' Alive - December 31, 2021 Category: American Health Source Type: blogs
Infant Memory: What Babies And Toddlers Can Remember
How psychologists have examined the emergence of infant memory in our first few years of life. (Source: PsyBlog | Psychology Blog)
Source: PsyBlog | Psychology Blog - December 31, 2021 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Jeremy Dean Tags: Memory Source Type: blogs
Epidemics and pandemics (2): AIDS
Just over 40 years ago, in June 1981, a paper appeared in Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report (MMWR) describing an opportunistic lung infection in otherwise healthy gay men. The lung condition was pneumocystis pneumonia, and this was the first description of what came to be known as AIDS. That first description, first article, was a case series, of five people, and therefore not evidence from particularly high up the traditional evidence pyramid. I may have pointed this out to students when discussing evidence based practice and that pyramid.There is more about this inthis post from Circulatin...
Source: Browsing - December 29, 2021 Category: Databases & Libraries Tags: AIDS Source Type: blogs
Wednesday Bible Study: Sex and violence
First a reminder of the situation. David is King of Judah, while the warlord Abner has set upIsh-Bosheth, a son of Saul, as king of the rest of Israel. (Yes, there ' s a continuity problem since supposedly all of Saul ' s house was killed and then this Ish-Bosheth character suddenly comes out of nowhere. Just accept it.) There is a civil war going on between them, although the only reason for it seems to be personal ambition. There follows a convoluted story. For people who claim on Biblical authority that marriage is between one man and one woman, this poses difficulties. We already know that David has two wives curr...
Source: Stayin' Alive - December 29, 2021 Category: American Health Source Type: blogs
