World's first baby is born from a transplanted uterus implanted by a robot
The youngster, who has not been named, weighed six pounds and 13 ounces when he was born via planned C-section in Sweden last month. Both the child and his 35-year-old mother are doing well. (Source: the Mail online | Health)
Source: the Mail online | Health - June 5, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
Black Patients May Be Underdiagnosed for Lung Problems Because of Software Bias
This study, published in JAMA Network Open, offers one of the first real-world examples of how the the issue may affect diagnosis and care for lung patients, said Dr. Darshali Vyas, a pulmonary care doctor at Massachusetts General Hospital.
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The results are “exciting” to see published but it’s also “what we’d expect” from setting aside race-based calculations, said Vyas, who was an author of an influential 2020 New England Journal of Medicine article that catalogued examples of how race-based assumptions are used in making doctors’ decisi...
Source: TIME: Health - June 2, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Mike Stobbe/AP Tags: Uncategorized healthscienceclimate Research wire Source Type: news
U.S. Births Refuse to Return to Pre-Pandemic Levels
NEW YORK — U.S. births were flat last year, as the nation saw fewer babies born than it did before the pandemic, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reported Thursday.
Births to moms 35 and older continued to rise, with the highest rates in that age group since the 1960s. But those gains were offset by record-low birth rates to moms in their teens and early 20s, the CDC found. Its report is based on a review of more than 99% of birth certificates issued last year.
A little under 3.7 million babies were born in the U.S. last year, about 3,000 fewer than the year before. Because the numbers are provisional a...
Source: TIME: Health - June 1, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Mike Stobbe / AP Tags: Uncategorized COVID-19 Health Care wire Source Type: news
Why So Many Black Women Die in Pregnancy
BIRMINGHAM — Angelica Lyons knew it was dangerous for Black women to give birth in America.
As a public health instructor, she taught college students about racial health disparities, including the fact that Black women in the U.S. are nearly three times more likely to die during pregnancy or delivery than any other race. Her home state of Alabama has the third-highest maternal mortality rate in the nation.
Then, in 2019, it nearly happened to her.
What should have been a joyous first pregnancy quickly turned into a nightmare when she began to suffer debilitating stomach pain.
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Source: TIME: Health - May 23, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Kat Stafford / AP Tags: Uncategorized Public Health wire Source Type: news
Hysterectomy: What It Is, Side Effects & Recovery
FRIDAY, May 19, 2023 -- Hysterectomy is the second most common surgery for women in their reproductive years, right after cesarean section.
Nearly 68% of these surgeries are done to address non-cancerous conditions such as abnormal uterine bleeding,... (Source: Drugs.com - Daily MedNews)
Source: Drugs.com - Daily MedNews - May 19, 2023 Category: General Medicine Source Type: news
Chelmsford mum who missed baby's birth determined to recover
Emma Taylor was in a coma when she had a C-section in October, and doctors then found a brain tumour. (Source: BBC News | Health | UK Edition)
Source: BBC News | Health | UK Edition - May 9, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
Risk for Early-Onset CRC Increased in Women Born Via C-Section
TUESDAY, May 2, 2023 -- Birth by cesarean delivery is associated with early-onset colorectal cancer (CRC) only in female offspring, according to a study published online April 27 in JAMA Network Open.
Yin Cao, Sc.D., M.P.H., from the Washington... (Source: Drugs.com - Pharma News)
Source: Drugs.com - Pharma News - May 2, 2023 Category: Pharmaceuticals Source Type: news
Tranexamic Acid May Not Prevent Hemorrhage After C-Section
(MedPage Today) -- Prophylactic tranexamic acid (TXA) during cesarean delivery did not lead to a lower risk of maternal death or blood transfusion, a randomized trial found.
Among 11,000 women in 31 U.S. hospitals assigned to TXA or placebo after... (Source: MedPage Today OB/GYN)
Source: MedPage Today OB/GYN - April 12, 2023 Category: OBGYN Source Type: news
Study Refutes Notion That Method of Delivery Impacts Baby's'Microbiome '
FRIDAY, March 31, 2023 -- Despite a longstanding assumption that babies ’ gut microbiome development could be affected by whether they were born vaginally or through cesarean section, scientists report this doesn ' t appear to be the case.
A team of... (Source: Drugs.com - Daily MedNews)
Source: Drugs.com - Daily MedNews - March 31, 2023 Category: General Medicine Source Type: news
Cesarean Section Tied to Lower Graduation Rates in Offspring
MONDAY, March 27, 2023 -- Chances of graduating from lower and upper secondary education are significantly lower for children born by cesarean section (CS), according to a study published online March 22 in Acta Obstetricia et Gynecologica... (Source: Drugs.com - Pharma News)
Source: Drugs.com - Pharma News - March 27, 2023 Category: Pharmaceuticals Source Type: news
Beatriz v. El Salvador Case Could Set Precedent on Abortion in Latin America
On Mar. 22, 2023, dozens of people watched a live broadcast from San José, Costa Rica, on a large screen at the University of El Salvador, in San Salvador, of the open hearing of the Inter-American Court of Human Rights, listening to the testimony of witnesses in the Beatriz v. El Salvador case. The screenshot shows Beatriz's mother giving her testimony. CREDIT: Edgardo Ayala/IPSBy Edgardo AyalaSAN SALVADOR , Mar 24 2023 (IPS) An open hearing in the Inter-American Court of Human Rights in the Beatriz v. El Salvador case is raising hopes that this country and other Latin American nations might overturn or at least mitigate...
Source: IPS Inter Press Service - Health - March 24, 2023 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Authors: Edgardo Ayala Tags: Active Citizens Civil Society Crime & Justice Development & Aid Editors' Choice Featured Gender Headlines Health Human Rights Latin America & the Caribbean Regional Categories Women's Health Abortion El Salvador Inter-America Source Type: news
Do C-Section Babies Miss Out on Mom's Helpful Microbes? Maybe Not
FRIDAY, March 10, 2023 -- New evidence finds that babies born by cesarean section may not miss out on essential microbes.
Though these newborns receive less of their mother ’s gut microbiome during birth, they can obtain their mom’s microbes in... (Source: Drugs.com - Daily MedNews)
Source: Drugs.com - Daily MedNews - March 10, 2023 Category: General Medicine Source Type: news
How Babies Born By C-Section Make Up for Lost Microbes
After nine months spent as a growing life in someone else’s body, the second a baby is born, they begin growing life in their own body: colonies of tiny bacterial cells ready to begin populating a baby’s gut microbiome. This microbial starter pack is a sort of going-away present from the mother’s body, acquired by a baby on the journey from the uterus through the birth canal. As a baby grows, their internal ecosystem becomes more complex, until eventually they’ve developed the robust bacterial diversity that allows the gut and other microbial havens to regulate and protect immunity and so many other...
Source: TIME: Health - March 9, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Haley Weiss Tags: Uncategorized healthscienceclimate Research Source Type: news
Warning to pregnant vapers: Healthy woman suffers lung bleed and needs emergency c-section
Regular vaping can spell disaster in pregnant women according to physicians from Texas who treated a pregnant woman suffered a lung bleed that doctors correlate with regular vaping. (Source: the Mail online | Health)
Source: the Mail online | Health - February 25, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
Complication Risks Rise in Pregnancies Among the Very Young
FRIDAY, Feb. 17, 2023 -- Pregnant girls who are especially young, those only 10 to 15 years old, face increased risks for complications that include preeclampsia and C-section, according to new research.
Investigators from University of Texas... (Source: Drugs.com - Daily MedNews)
Source: Drugs.com - Daily MedNews - February 17, 2023 Category: General Medicine Source Type: news
