Dr Harold Moody
was the subject of theGoogle Doodle on 1st September. The image caught my eye as the designer intended, and I followed the link.And then, I started reading Reni Eddo-Lodge ' s Why I am no longer talking to white people about race, and there he was again.Moody was born in Jamaica, came to England to study medicine (at King ' s College London), and then worked in London as a general practitioner. In 1931, he founded the League of Coloured Peoples, a civil rights organisation.I could find nothing in medical journals about him, but did find thisbook chapter by David Killingray, published in Manchester Op...
Source: Browsing - October 1, 2020 Category: Databases & Libraries Tags: Black History Month Congregationalism medical history Source Type: blogs
What's new in midwifery - 30th September 2020
In the newsFirst in this fortnightly update, some news stories. An article in the Guardian by Zoe Williams, Bilge, booze and misogyny: why I ' m outraged by a new idea to police pregnant women, about NICE proposals in their draft guidelines on fetal alcohol syndrome, to record a mother ' s alcohol intake on the child ' s health record. See the previous What ' s new post for more.This,about an the first prosecution of an NHS trust for lack of candour, the case involved the death of a patient from a perforated endoscopy, but the duty of candour regulations apply across health care. The CQC br...
Source: Browsing - September 30, 2020 Category: Databases & Libraries Tags: midwifery Source Type: blogs
What's new in midwifery - 16th September 2020
The gap since the last post suggests weekly is too difficult, so I will aim to post on this topic once a fortnight. In the newsPlans to record pregnant women ' s alcohol consumption on their child ' s medical records are being considered by NICE, according to theGuardian, This isNICE ' s consultation on a quality standard for fetal alcohol spectrum disorder. It certainly suggests recording alcohol consumption on the woman ' s records, and transferring that information to the child ' s records. This is statement 2 in the document at https://www.nice.org.uk/guidance/indevelopment/gi...
Source: Browsing - September 16, 2020 Category: Databases & Libraries Tags: midwifery Source Type: blogs
COVID and pregnancy
As a member of the departmental EDI group, I wrote this as an email to Library and Leicester Learning Institute staff, as part of a series on how COVID affected protected groups. Here is the email, minus anything specifically University of Leicester.All links were checked on 3rd July 2020.NHS,including information in British Sign Language.NHS Inform (from NHS Scotland): haslinks to health information in languages other than English, and the COVID information may include information about pregnancy. There is information in Arabic, Bengali, British Sign Language, Chinese, Hindi, Polish, Punjabi, Romanian...
Source: Browsing - September 10, 2020 Category: Databases & Libraries Source Type: blogs
What's new in midwifery - 26th August 2020
This is the first of these for some weeks - first, I was away on leave, then, I was just disorganised.There are too many new research articles and systematic reviews to list, so I suggest you go to McMaster ' sEvidence Alerts and search for your topic of interest.Start on the launch page, where you can see how they identify studies to include. Then go to Search and enter your term(s) - Advanced Search Options lets you specify things like diagnosis, discipline (e.g. Obstetrics) and population (e.g. Neonates). Although your search term may mean you don ' t need to specify discipline or population, of co...
Source: Browsing - August 26, 2020 Category: Databases & Libraries Tags: midwifery Source Type: blogs
A health librarian and music - more Vaughan Williams and Bach
I mentioned in my Vaughan Williams post hisFantasia on a theme by Thomas Tallis. It ' s so lovely that I think you should listen, if you don ' t know it.Here are the Toronto Symphony Orchestra playing it.Also lovely is hisFive variants of Dives and Lazarus. This, as I understand it, is five versions of the same folk tune, collected by Vaughan Williams himself, rather than five variations on one tune. It is an illustration of the folk tradition at work, the same song appearing in different geographical places, with differences in music or words. The song itself is the story of Dives and Lazarus that Jesus told (recorded ...
Source: Browsing - August 14, 2020 Category: Databases & Libraries Tags: music Source Type: blogs
Meeting as a church virtually (3)
Here are the first andsecond posts in this series (as it has become).So, we can now meet in the buildings. No singing. We sit 2 metres apart (unless we are in the same household). In one church there are tables and chairs set out, in the other the cinema style seats are up or down and must remain so. No one can move to another chair. No one passes on the stairs and there are one way systems. There is hand sanitiser and wipes. No one else can use the space for 72 hours afterwards or we have to deep clean. When it becomes law...
Source: Browsing - July 23, 2020 Category: Databases & Libraries Source Type: blogs
What's new in midwifery - 22nd July 2020
Some recent things you might like to know (two weeks ' worth)In the newsHundreds more potentially avoidable baby deaths found at Telford and Shropshire NHS Trust (Guardian)COVID-19Pregnancy and COVID-19: a systematic review of maternal, obstetric and neonatal outcomes Vertical transmission risk of SARS-CoV-2 infection in the third trimester: a systematic scoping review Postpartum ischaemia and haemorrhageA systematic review of diagnosis and treatment of acute limb ischemia during pregnancy and postpartum periodMechanical and surgical interventions for treating primary postpartum haemorrhageCaesarean delivery...
Source: Browsing - July 22, 2020 Category: Databases & Libraries Tags: COVID-19 midwifery Source Type: blogs
Nasal and throat swab test
Our younger son was chosen at random to take part in a trial, to try and see who has COVID-19 now but without symptoms. People were chosen at random from GP registers.Once enrolled, he was sent a nose and throat swab testing kit, with a link tothis subtitled video to explain to him and us what to do. Because he is under 13, we had to administer the test, which he was not pleased about, arguing he could do it himself. But protocols are protocols. We ran the risk of invalidating our part in the experiment by not doing the test properly, but would letting him do it himself do the same?S...
Source: Browsing - July 18, 2020 Category: Databases & Libraries Tags: COVID-19 NCOV Source Type: blogs
A health librarian and music - Ralph Vaughan Williams
Writing about Ina Boyle leads me to write about Ralph Vaughan Williams, who she studied with. Early on I knew about Fantasia on Greensleeves, perhaps his most well known work (although Fantasia on a Theme of Thomas Tallis is lovelier). And because I was brought up listening to traditional folk music, thanks to my late Dad, I knew there was a folk song tune lurking in the middle of it*. And because I was taken to church as a child (thanks to both parents) I knew that he had written some hymn tunes.Vaughan Williams arranged folk songs for " classical " voices and piano, something Dad certainly did...
Source: Browsing - July 18, 2020 Category: Databases & Libraries Tags: music Source Type: blogs
A health librarian and music - Ina Boyle
I was driving back from the computer shop after buying a plug in keyboard to address the fact that my laptop was no longer (or loner) allowing me to type g and h.And this was on the radio. The car radio told me what it was called, but not who wrote it. I thought it sounded like Ralph Vaughan Williams, but it was not. It was in fact (as you may have known) by Ina Boyle. She lived in County Wicklow, Ireland, composed symphonies and concertos, settings of Irish and English language poems, including English translations of Scottish Gaelic. She was a student of Vaughan Williams. ...
Source: Browsing - July 17, 2020 Category: Databases & Libraries Tags: music Source Type: blogs
What's new in midwifery - 9th July 2020
Some things you may need to know (two weeks ' worth).COVID-19COVID-19 in Pregnant Women and Neonates: A Systematic Review of the Literature with Quality Assessment of the StudiesEffects of COVID-19 Infection during Pregnancy and Neonatal Prognosis: What Is the Evidence?Perinatal mental healthInternet ‐based intervention for postpartum depression in China (“Mommy go”): Protocol for a randomized controlled trialPostpartumCan postpartum pelvic floor muscle training reduce urinary and anal incontinence?: An assessor-blinded randomized controlled trialLabourHealth resource utilization of labor induction versus expectant m...
Source: Browsing - July 9, 2020 Category: Databases & Libraries Tags: midwifery Source Type: blogs
COVID-19: information for health and care professionals
Last updated 24th November 2020, 0920 UK time - entries added marked NEW.On this page, evidence summaries, guidelines and government and related information for practitioners.See also theepidemiology and genetics andcurrent awareness pages. There is a page ofjournal and database publishers making content available free.NEW - REACTFindings from the Real-time Assessment of Community Transmission studyResources from Royal Colleges (list maintained by HEE)Clinical TrialsThe WHO ICTRP indexes trials from a number of sources, including the US and EU registries. From thelaunch page you can download lists of ...
Source: Browsing - June 27, 2020 Category: Databases & Libraries Tags: coronavirus COVID-19 NCOV Source Type: blogs
COVID-19: Current awareness and literature searching
Content last changed 21st November 2020, 2010 UK time, with items added at that time identified with NEW.To keep up to date with new scientific literature about COVID-19, use one of the searches or curated lists below.Literature searchesTwo dedicated databases:NEW LitCovid (NLM database of COVID articles)NEW WHO COVID-19 database Search strategies:PubMedMy strategy, last amended 17th March 2020 - sorted by date added to PubMed. You are welcome to use this. Robert Polson, University of the Highlands and Islands library), search and feed of results.Public Health England ' s Finding th...
Source: Browsing - June 27, 2020 Category: Databases & Libraries Tags: coronavirus COVID-19 NCOV Source Type: blogs
What's new in midwifery - 24th June 2020
Some recent things you may need to know...ResearchEffect of a Patient-Centered Decision Support Tool on Rates of Trial of Labor After Previous Cesarean Delivery: The PROCEED Randomized Clinical Trial (JAMA) Effect of delayed interval delivery of remaining fetus(es) in multiple pregnancies on survival: a systematic review and meta-analysis (AJOG) Effect of progestogen for women with threatened miscarriage: a systematic review and meta-analysis (BJOG) MAVRIC: a multicenter randomized controlled trial of transabdominal vs transvaginal cervical cerclage (AJOG)Twelve-hour fasting compared with expedited...
Source: Browsing - June 26, 2020 Category: Databases & Libraries Source Type: blogs
