Where this physician finds joy in medicine
My country rotation as a medical student was overshadowed by a heated argument between the general practitioner and his wife. She was sacrificing her life in this “hole of a place” and angrily stormed out to visit her children in boarding school in the city. Decades later, I now understand the frustration and challenges of rural general practice for a doctor, who is also a mother:
Being ignored in the street by the sister of someone I reported for child abuse. Remaining professional when my child was victimized at school by one of my young patients. Being called out to a cardiac arrest in the middle of lunch with best ...
Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog - October 4, 2018 Category: General Medicine Authors: < a href="https://www.kevinmd.com/blog/post-author/leanne-rowe" rel="tag" > Leanne Rowe, MD < /a > Tags: Physician Primary Care Source Type: blogs
Could household disinfectants be making our children fat?
Household disinfectants seem like such a good idea, especially when you have children — after all, children make messes, and killing germs helps keep children healthy, right? Not always, it turns out. Sometimes germs actually keep us healthy and keep us at a healthy weight.
More and more, we are learning that not all bacteria are bad. In fact, the bacteria that live naturally in and on our bodies, especially in our digestive tracts, are crucial for health. When we mess with those bacteria, it increases the risk of many problems, including cardiovascular disease, diabetes, rheumatoid arthritis, inflammatory bowel disease,...
Source: Harvard Health Blog - October 3, 2018 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Claire McCarthy, MD Tags: Children's Health Parenting Source Type: blogs
5 tips for the farmers market
It’s peak farmers market season and the stalls are overflowing with piles of attractively arranged yummy fruits and veggies. Buying local and eating organic sounds good, but there are so many choices, and it’s easy to overspend.
Here are five tips to help you get the most bang for your buck at the stalls this fall:
Is it really local?
Not all farm stands represent your local farmers. There are a few ways to tell. The market in our town features an online newsletter, and every week, they send out a list of farmers market vendors. Most have a link, and it’s easy to see which ones are truly local family farms. Other way...
Source: Harvard Health Blog - September 21, 2018 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Monique Tello, MD, MPH Tags: Food as medicine Health Healthy Eating Source Type: blogs
3 ways we ’ve failed woman who breastfeed
I have two hours until I’m due to breastfeed my seventh-month-old baby again, so I’ll make this quick: Breastfeeding is really hard for many and our environment and current policy context makes it even harder.
The month of August has been declared “National Breastfeeding Month” by the United States Breastfeeding Committee — an organization committed to “creating a landscape of breastfeeding support” by advocating for policy changes to facilitate breastfeeding. Since the U.S. Surgeon General released a “Call to Action” to better support breastfeeding mothers and babies in 2011, many support efforts have be...
Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog - September 10, 2018 Category: General Medicine Authors: < a href="https://www.kevinmd.com/blog/post-author/joanna-buscemi" rel="tag" > Joanna Buscemi, PhD < /a > Tags: Policy OB/GYN Source Type: blogs
Opioid Dependence Among New Mothers
Recently the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) released a report showing that the rate of opioid use among American women during childbirth more than quadrupled between 1999-2014. Opioid use and dependence among women of childbearing age in the U.S. and worldwide is a substantial problem that shows little indication of subsiding. It’s an
The post Opioid Dependence Among New Mothers appeared first on Johns Hopkins Nursing Magazine. (Source: Nursing Blogs at Johns Hopkins University)
Source: Nursing Blogs at Johns Hopkins University - September 7, 2018 Category: Nursing Authors: Editor Tags: On the Pulse breastfeeding Childbirth Newborn opioid pain Source Type: blogs
Why pregnant and nursing mothers shouldn ’t smoke marijuana
As more states legalize marijuana, the number of pregnant women who smoke marijuana is rising — and this could be really bad for babies.
In 2002, 2.3% of pregnant women used marijuana. In 2014, that number was up to 3.84%, a rise of two-thirds. To make matters worse, the amount of tetrahydrocannabinol (THC) in marijuana has quadrupled. THC is the active ingredient in marijuana, the chemical that gives the “high.”
We don’t know all the effects of THC on infants, but we know enough that the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) has issued a statement warning parents.
THC can pass easily through the placenta and into t...
Source: Harvard Health Blog - September 6, 2018 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Claire McCarthy, MD Tags: Children's Health Marijuana Parenting Source Type: blogs
What's new in midwifery - 22nd August 2018
Some recent things you might need to know about.Royal College of AnaesthetistsThe care of the critically ill woman in childbirth: enhanced maternal care 2018. Summarises recommendations relevant to the care of pregnant or recently pregnant, acutely or chronically unwell women, who require acute hospital maternity and critical care specialist services. NHS EnglandCCG maternity assessment, containing the independent panel commentary, methodology of the ratings for 2017/18 and the CCG individual assessment ratings for 2017/18. CCG Improvement and Assessment Framework (CCG IAF) – Maternity Support Offer,an off...
Source: Browsing - August 22, 2018 Category: Databases & Libraries Tags: midwifery Source Type: blogs
Making Today ’s Media Environment Work for the Professions—and You
Most ASHA members would like to see communication sciences and disorders (CSD) professions featured in the news. Some have taken this desire a step further and have reached out to the media (print or on-air) in their communities to discuss topics they care deeply about.
Others want to do so, but don’t know where to start or what resonates with reporters.
So what are reporters interested in hearing about? “Old school” still works: government statistics on communication disorders, new research findings, an awareness month or week—to name a few examples.
In past columns, I provided advice on how to take these popular ...
Source: American Speech-Language-Hearing Association (ASHA) Press Releases - August 13, 2018 Category: Speech-Language Pathology Authors: Francine Pierson Tags: Advocacy Audiology Private Practice Slider Speech-Language Pathology Professional Development Source Type: blogs
National Breastfeeding Month
August is National Breastfeeding Month. According to the Office on Women’s Health, breastfed babies have lower risks during their childhood of obesity, ear infections, asthma and other conditions. Breast milk is rich in nutrients and easier for babies to digest than formula. Breastfeeding can help a mother’s health and healing following childbirth and leads to a lower risk of type 2 diabetes, certain types of breast cancer and ovarian cancer. Unfortunately, African American mothers have the lowest rates of starting and continuing to breastfeed their infant. See the Guide to Breastfeeding from the Office of Women&#...
Source: BHIC - August 8, 2018 Category: Databases & Libraries Authors: Patricia Devine Tags: Children and Teens Minority Health Concerns Source Type: blogs
Should you switch to A2 dairy?
No doubt: Dairy products have issues.
The issues with dairy are not as bad as they are with grains. After all, the consumption of the seeds of grasses was an entirely foreign practice, introduced very late in the human experience—we have spent less than 0.4% of our time on this planet consuming seeds of grasses, despite their dominant dietary role today, thanks to the lobbying of Big Agribusiness, Big Food, and the bungling of the USDA and U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. Grains are physiologically inappropriate for consumption by Homo sapiens at any time, in any form. Wild, hunting, primitive humans did...
Source: Wheat Belly Blog - August 8, 2018 Category: Cardiology Authors: Dr. Davis Tags: News & Updates casein dairy gluten-free grain-free grains lactose whey Source Type: blogs
What's new in midwifery - 1st August 2018
Some recent things you might need to know about.Saving Babies Lives Care BundleEvaluation of the implementation of the Saving Babies ’ Lives Care Bundle in early adopter NHS Trusts in England shows that stillbirths fell by a fifth at the maternity units where national guidance, known as the Saving Babies Lives Care Bundle, had been implemented. Also reported inthe Guardian.Perinatal mental healthThousands of mothers left to cope alone with mental illness (Guardian)An interview in the BMJ with Trudi Seneviratne, consultant adult and perinatal psychiatrist at the South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust.Bre...
Source: Browsing - August 1, 2018 Category: Databases & Libraries Tags: midwifery Source Type: blogs
Is There a Kind of Severe Hand-Foot-Mouth Disease?
Hand-foot-mouth disease can be caused by any of several related viruses, most commonly by one called coxsackievirus A-16. In 2008, an epidemic of one type of severe hand-foot-mouth disease (also known as HFMD) in China appeared in news reports around the world as the child-killing virus. More than forty people died in that outbreak; all of them children. The culprit was enterovirus 71, or EV-71.
In 2011 another new cause of HFMD hit the United States, coxsackievirus A-6. People feel sicker with this one than typical HFMD; the rash is worse; it lasts longer; and they may temporarily lose their nails. One clue to this stra...
Source: Conversations with Dr Greene - July 27, 2018 Category: Child Development Authors: Dr. Alan Greene Tags: Dr. Greene's Blog Diseases & Conditions Infectious Disease Source Type: blogs
Is There a Kind of Severe Hand-Foot-Mouth Disease?
Hand-foot-mouth disease can be caused by any of several related viruses, most commonly by one called coxsackievirus A-16. In 2008, an epidemic of one type of severe hand-foot-mouth disease (also known as HFMD) in China appeared in news reports around the world as the child-killing virus. More than forty people died in that outbreak; all of them children. The culprit was enterovirus 71, or EV-71.
In 2011 another new cause of HFMD hit the United States, coxsackievirus A-6. People feel sicker with this one than typical HFMD; the rash is worse; it lasts longer; and they may temporarily lose their nails. One clue to this stra...
Source: Conversations with Dr Greene - July 27, 2018 Category: Child Development Authors: Alan Greene MD Tags: Dr. Greene's Blog Diseases & Conditions Infectious Disease Source Type: blogs
The Dream Product of Breastmilk —Nursing Stands for Breastfeeding Benefits
“Imagine that the world had created a new ‘dream product’ to feed and immunize everyone born on earth. Imagine also that it was available everywhere, required no storage or delivery, and helped mothers plan their families and reduce the risk of cancer. Then imagine that the world refused to use it.” This quote is attributed
The post The Dream Product of Breastmilk—Nursing Stands for Breastfeeding Benefits appeared first on Johns Hopkins Nursing Magazine. (Source: Nursing Blogs at Johns Hopkins University)
Source: Nursing Blogs at Johns Hopkins University - July 16, 2018 Category: Nursing Authors: Online Editor Tags: On the Pulse breastfeeding Global health Pediatrics policy Womens health Source Type: blogs
What's new in midwifery - 11th July 2018
Some recent things you might need to know about.World Health AssemblyTrump administration ' s opposition to breastfeeding resolution sparks outrage (Guardian)The White House ' s response to this sort of report (that the US was opposing limits on formula milk use) (PBS)Elsewhere in the newsFeeding your baby solids early may help them sleep, study suggestsA report of a trial published inJAMA Pediatrics.Public Health EnglandAreport on theimpact of women ’s reproductive health issues on the nation’s physical, mental and social wellbeing. Perinatal mental healthNew perinatal mental health mother and baby unit...
Source: Browsing - July 11, 2018 Category: Databases & Libraries Tags: midwifery Source Type: blogs
