10 lifestyle choices that could lower risk of all cancers by 70 percent
Breastfeeding and avoiding certain supplements are among the recommendations. (Source: Daily Express - Health)
Source: Daily Express - Health - November 28, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
Pressure grows on FDA as lead-tainted applesauce sickens more kids
Last spring, when Sarah Callahan’s son Rudy was 9 months old, he fell in love with WanaBana apple cinnamon fruit purée pouches. The 39-year-old mother in Port Republic, Maryland, chose the apple purée pouches to help transition Rudy from breastmilk to solid foods. It seemed like a healthy option…#sarahcallahans #wanabana #portrepublic #maryland #callahan #florida #fda #schnucksapplesauce #dollartree #janehoulihan (Source: Reuters: Health)
Source: Reuters: Health - November 25, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
Food aid for low-income mothers, babies becomes spending flashpoint
The result, advocates and state-based WIC administrators fear, is that they may have to begin putting people on waitlists to receive aid like breastfeeding support, baby formula and other nutrition assistance. Those warnings have become more urgent after Congress passed a stop-gap spending bill…#whitehouses #democrats #pattymurray #wic #paulthrone #rosadelauro #democrat #republicans #usda #robertaderholt (Source: Reuters: Health)
Source: Reuters: Health - November 21, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
How Late Can You Give Routine Newborn Care?
Discussion
Routine newborn screening and treatment is focused on assisting the infant’s transition to extrauterine life, screening for health problems that may or may not be easily identifiable, and preventing acute or chronic health problems. Healthy infants begin with healthy pregnancies including risk factor assessment and screening of mothers. Such routine maternal screening and treatment does or may include glucose tolerance tests, ultrasound examinations, screenings for maternal blood type (with appropriate administration of Rho(D) immunoglobulin if appropriate), Hepatitis B, Neisseria gonorrhea, Chlamydia, Cyt...
Source: PediatricEducation.org - November 20, 2023 Category: Pediatrics Authors: Pediatric Education Tags: Uncategorized Source Type: news
How Late Can You Give Routine Newborn Care?
Discussion
Routine newborn screening and treatment is focused on assisting the infant’s transition to extrauterine life, screening for health problems that may or may not be easily identifiable, and preventing acute or chronic health problems. Healthy infants begin with healthy pregnancies including risk factor assessment and screening of mothers. Such routine maternal screening and treatment does or may include glucose tolerance tests, ultrasound examinations, screenings for maternal blood type (with appropriate administration of Rho(D) immunoglobulin if appropriate), Hepatitis B, Neisseria gonorrhea, Chlamydia, Cyt...
Source: PediatricEducation.org - November 20, 2023 Category: Pediatrics Authors: Pediatric Education Tags: Uncategorized Source Type: news
YouTube will now let breastfeeding and twerking videos be monetized
YouTube videos that feature breastfeeding content can now earn money on the platform, so long as they meet a certain set of criteria. The website has updated its policy to allow monetization of breastfeeding videos that show the mother's areola, as well as those wherein the person in the video is…#breastfeeding (Source: Reuters: Health)
Source: Reuters: Health - November 19, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
1999 to 2018 Saw Rise in Rates of Breastfeeding Initiation
THURSDAY, Nov. 16, 2023 -- From 1999 to 2018, there was an increase in the prevalence of breastfeeding initiation and breastfeeding duration at 12 months, according to a research letter published online Nov. 13 in JAMA Pediatrics.
Guodong... (Source: Drugs.com - Pharma News)
Source: Drugs.com - Pharma News - November 16, 2023 Category: Pharmaceuticals Source Type: news
Paid Family Leave May Lower Odds for Postpartum Depression
THURSDAY, Nov. 16, 2023 -- New mothers living in states with generous mandated paid family and medical leave are less likely to experience postpartum depression, a new study indicates.
They also are more likely to breastfeed their... (Source: Drugs.com - Daily MedNews)
Source: Drugs.com - Daily MedNews - November 16, 2023 Category: General Medicine Source Type: news
Breastfeeding and Colorectal Cancer Breastfeeding and Colorectal Cancer
We must accept that in a few situations, even with help from caring and enlightened healthcare providers and family members, breastfeeding doesn ' t work as well as we would have hoped.MDedge (Source: Medscape Pediatrics Headlines)
Source: Medscape Pediatrics Headlines - November 14, 2023 Category: Pediatrics Tags: Pediatrics Commentary Source Type: news
AMA Delegates Take Action on Cannabis, Medical Aid-in-Dying Resolutions
(MedPage Today) -- NATIONAL HARBOR, Md. -- The American Medical Association (AMA) should work to educate physicians and the public on the health risks of cannabis to children as well as potential risks to people who are pregnant or breastfeeding... (Source: MedPage Today Public Health)
Source: MedPage Today Public Health - November 14, 2023 Category: American Health Source Type: news
Lactation Room at Community named in honor of Cathy Patrick
Patrick ’s career and work in implementing breastfeeding programs spanned more than two decades (Source: SUNY Upstate Medical)
Source: SUNY Upstate Medical - November 12, 2023 Category: Universities & Medical Training Tags: News Source Type: news
What Are the Common Types of Craniosynostosis?
Discussion
Usually when an infant is born the fontanelles and sutures remain open allowing the cranial bones the ability to move and undergo molding. This assists in delivery and molding from delivery usually resolves within hours to a few days.
Positional plagiocephaly (also called deformational plagiocephaly) usually occurs after birth (usually in the first few weeks) due to mechanical factors including positioning of the infant’s head such that little repositioning occurs (i.e. bottle feeding only on same side, placement in crib on same side, placement always on infant’s back with no prone placement, etc.)...
Source: PediatricEducation.org - November 6, 2023 Category: Pediatrics Authors: Pediatric Education Tags: Uncategorized Source Type: news
Pregnant? Breastfeeding? FDA Aims to Improve Drug Information
The FDA is helping people know more about the effects of medicines during pregnancy and breastfeeding. Discuss treatment options with your health care professional if you are pregnant or breastfeeding. (Source: FDA Center for Drug Evaluation and Research - What's New)
Source: FDA Center for Drug Evaluation and Research - What's New - November 1, 2023 Category: Drugs & Pharmacology Authors: FDA Source Type: news
South Africa: Health Dept Has Not Fully Implemented Court Order Affirming Immigrant Rights - Lawyers
[GroundUp] The department was ordered to put notices up in hospitals and clinics stating that children under six and pregnant and breastfeeding women are eligible for free health care irrespective of nationality (Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine)
Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine - October 27, 2023 Category: African Health Tags: Health and Medicine Legal and Judicial Affairs South Africa Southern Africa Source Type: news
