The Women ’s Health Amendment Is Getting An Update. What Should It Include?
The Affordable Care Act (ACA) requires most private health plans in the United States to cover four sets of recommended preventive services without copayments, deductibles, or other out-of-pocket costs. One of those four sets of services focused on women’s preventive care needs. It was called for under the law’s Women’s Health Amendment, developed by an Institute of Medicine panel, and officially incorporated by the federal government into health plans’ requirements in 2012. Taken as a whole, the ACA’s preventive services provision requires coverage of a wide array of sexual and reproductive health services, from...
Source: Health Affairs Blog - September 14, 2016 Category: Health Management Authors: Adam Sonfield Tags: Costs and Spending Equity and Disparities Public Health Quality ACA contraceptive coverage HIV/AIDS sexually transmitted infections Women's Health Source Type: blogs
Is It Time to Extend Maternity Leave Across Europe?
Any policy solution for extending maternity leave must strike a balance between protecting infant health through extended breastfeeding and mitigating any potentially negative impact on the mother ' s career progression or increased costs to business. (Source: The RAND Blog)
Source: The RAND Blog - September 12, 2016 Category: Health Management Authors: RAND Corporation Source Type: blogs
How Has MS Affected Your Family Planning or Your Pregnancy?
For many years, there’s been anecdotal evidence that multiple sclerosis activity can slow — and some symptoms even improve — during pregnancy. The evidence was so strong that a multiyear study of the effect of hormone therapy to mimic pregnancy has been undertaken to test whether higher levels of a type of estrogen is behind this phenomenon.
As a man — even a man with MS — I have no way to experience this firsthand. As an “enlightened” man, I wouldn’t even try to comment on it. I suppose it’s not unlike the blog we posted on MS and menopause a number of years ago. I simply cannot make any informed...
Source: Life with MS - September 7, 2016 Category: Neurology Authors: Trevis Gleason Tags: multiple sclerosis life with MS Living with MS MS and family Source Type: blogs
Defining the next revolution for women, work and family
During these last days of the summer, we here at Disruptive Women are reflecting on posts near when we first launched—it’s fascinating to see how far we’ve come and where we still have to go—to push—to Disrupt. After all, a woman’s work is never done. We originally published this post on June 19, 2012.
by Madeleine Kunin. Trying to “do it all” takes a toll on women’s health. And men’s health too. Surprisingly, more men than women report feeling work life stress.
It’s time to take a serious look at how we expect families to combine work and family without jeopardizing their health in toda...
Source: Disruptive Women in Health Care - August 29, 2016 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: dw at disruptivewomen.net Tags: Caregiving Children Politics Child care childcare family Family and Medical Leave Act feminism Paid leave Poverty workplace flexibility Source Type: blogs
Augmented Reality In Healthcare Will Be Revolutionary
Augmented reality is one of the most promising digital technologies at present – look at the success of Pokémon Go – and it has the potential to change healthcare and everyday medicine completely for physicians and patients alike.
By now, it is official: Pokémon Go conquered the world. TechCrunch reported that on the day when the game was launched, it immediately surpassed the daily time usage of Facebook, SnapChat or Twitter by the average iOS user on mobile phones. Tom Curry, a man living in New Zealand quit his job to become a full-time Pokémon hunter. In Central Park, herds of Pokémon Go players almost caused a...
Source: The Medical Futurist - July 21, 2016 Category: Information Technology Authors: nora Tags: Augmentation in Medicine Future of Medicine Health Sensors & Trackers AR augmented reality GC1 google glass Innovation Surgery technology Source Type: blogs
5 Tips for Reducing Ever-Growing Mom Guilt
Moms tend to feel guilty for all sorts of things. They feel guilty for working full-time or part-time. They feel guilty for not breastfeeding or for stopping too soon. They feel guilty for not being able to join their child’s field trip. Again. They feel guilty for taking time for themselves. For not cooking from scratch. For the dirty clothes in the corner and the dirty dishes in the sink. For not making enough money. For making mistakes. For being too tired. For anything.
As psychotherapist Krysta Dancy, MA MFT, said, guilt “begins in pregnancy and childbirth — all the different ways to give birth — flow...
Source: World of Psychology - July 15, 2016 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Margarita Tartakovsky, M.S. Tags: Children and Teens Friends General Habits Happiness Mental Health and Wellness Parenting Relationships Self-Esteem Self-Help Stress Women's Issues Catherine O’Brien Comparison comparison making Family feeling guilty Imp Source Type: blogs
Overselling the Microbiome Award for @nytimes on thumb sucking, nail biting protecting from allergy
I am continually torn about handing out "overselling the microbiome" awards to many "stories" that are coming out recently on new scientific studies. On the one hand, many of these studies are quite interesting. On the other hand, a huge number of them oversell the implications of the work. And for some reason it seems to me that studies that could indicate a positive role for microbes in some way seem to end up with more misrepresentation than other types of work. Mind you, I truly believe the cloud of microbes living in and on various plants and animals are likely to play fundamental roles in all ...
Source: The Tree of Life - July 13, 2016 Category: Microbiology Authors: Jonathan Eisen Source Type: blogs
Research and Reviews in the Fastlane 142
This study demonstrated that very early administration (pre-hospital) did not change outcomes in terms of infarct size. There was also no reduction in ventricular dysrhythmias. Once again we see that earlier is not always better.
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Source: Life in the Fast Lane - July 13, 2016 Category: Emergency Medicine Authors: Jeremy Fried Tags: Cardiology Clinical Research Education Emergency Medicine Pediatrics R&R in the FASTLANE critical care EBM literature recommendations research and reviews Source Type: blogs
Junk Food: Penalties and Subsidies
The welfare state is so vast and complex that it often works against itself. Regulations and taxes kill jobs and work incentives, but EITC subsidies are supposed to boost incentives. The government tells women to breastfeed, but the federal WIC program subsidizes baby formula.
The food stamp program provides billions of dollars for people to buy junk food, but liberals are pressing governments to penalize junk food with special taxes. Philadelphia just passed the first special tax on soda.
May I suggest that health do-gooders wanting people to eat less junk food focus on cutting subsidies rather than imposing taxes?
At the...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - June 23, 2016 Category: American Health Authors: Chris Edwards Source Type: blogs
2-Month Old Infant Suffered Apnea and Died Following 8 Vaccines
Conclusion
After watching their son get buried, Cash’s parents were thrown into a world they didn’t know much about. They were now another set of grieving parents who senselessly lost their child due to medical practices recommended under a doctor’s care.
Vaccines are being ignored when compiling infant mortality data. In 2013, Cash Dewayne Thomas was one of 23,440 babies who died in the United States before reaching their first birthday, according to the latest infant mortality data published in 2016. [19] About 11,300 newborns die within their first day of life, many soon after receiving their first hepatitis B vac...
Source: vactruth.com - June 16, 2016 Category: Allergy & Immunology Authors: Augustina Ursino Tags: Augustina Ursino Human Top Stories apnea Cash Dewayne Thomas Jesse Dewayne Thomas newborn vaccines truth about vaccines Vaccine Death Whitney Hill Source Type: blogs
Big Brother and the Breast
That is the title of a chapter in a new book by Jennifer Grayson, Unlatched: The Evolution of Breastfeeding and the Making of a Controversy. Grayson is a Los Angeles writer, and her book includes endorsements from film stars Anne Hathaway and Alyssa Milano.
Jennifer is a breastfeeding advocate, and she explores the science, history, and cultural practices surrounding breastfeeding. While breastfeeding is now known to be superior for child development than infant formula, apparently too few moms follow through with it for the recommended period of time. Jennifer is a champion of “Breast is Best.”
Jennifer contacted...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - June 14, 2016 Category: American Health Authors: Chris Edwards Source Type: blogs
Living the oath requires physicians to set boundaries
“I solemnly pledge to consecrate my life to the service of humanity.” Standing with my medical school colleagues, we continue: “I will respect and hold the secrets that are confided in me. I will exercise moral integrity.”
I easily agree. But then, “The health of my patient will be my first consideration.” I’m 40 weeks pregnant, with swollen feet and raging heartburn. My baby kicks wildly. With certainty, I know that living this part of the oath will be much more difficult than saying it.
My first son is born soon afterward, and my thoughts are only for him — this beautiful, completely dependent new...
Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog - June 10, 2016 Category: Journals (General) Authors: Kathy Stepien, MD Tags: Physician Primary care Source Type: blogs
Post #44 Transitioning Babies to Solid Foods
This is an unedited excerpt from my 2nd book, "What to Know Before Having Your Baby" - coming out in February of 2017.Because infants begin their life on breast milk, parents often think that milk is essential for their child’s diet even beyond the first year of life. While milk is absolutely important for the first few months of life, once babies can start eating solids, the value of milk (breast, formula, or cow’s) quickly diminishes. Milk’s main purpose is for humans (and animals) to provide an easy source of nutrition to their babies until they are ready for solid foods – which offer a far greater d...
Source: A Pediatrician's Blog - June 3, 2016 Category: Pediatrics Source Type: blogs
Preemies Need Breast Milk, Too
Business Insider released an article titled, “Good pumping routine key to giving preemies breast milk.” The focus of this article is around a study conducted in the U.K. regarding the importance of breastfeeding and how preemie babies do not have the strength ... Read More » (Source: Nursing Blogs at Johns Hopkins University)
Source: Nursing Blogs at Johns Hopkins University - April 25, 2016 Category: Nursing Authors: Hopkins Nursing Tags: Faculty breastfeeding joanne flagg newborn nicu Pediatrics preemies Source Type: blogs
