What's new in midwifery - 18th November 2020
Some things you may want to know about. Apologies for the long gap since the last list. Maybe monthly is more realistic, or maybe I need to be more organised.First,COVID, a systematic review by three Ethiopian authors on The effect of coronavirus infection (SARS-CoV-2, MERS-CoV, and SARS-CoV) during pregnancy and the possibility of vertical maternal-fetal transmission: a systematic review and meta-analysis published in the open access European Journal of Medical Research.The Guardian reports thatmothers are needlessly separated from their babies after birth, and has articles about pregn...
Source: Browsing - November 18, 2020 Category: Databases & Libraries Tags: COVID-19 midwifery Source Type: blogs
Fight Aging! Newsletter, November 16th 2020
This study conclusively demonstrates the long-speculated relationship between aging, gene regulation, and somatic damage. The results open up new avenues of research with practical implications. If the same level of coordination reduction between genes is indeed a leading cause for aging phenomena, there may be a need to change course in current efforts to develop aging treatments.
Using Oligodendrocyte Extracellular Vesicles to Induce Tolerance to Myelin as a Treatment for Multiple Sclerosis
https://www.fightaging.org/archives/2020/11/using-oligodendrocyte-extracellular-vesicles-to-induce-tolerance-to-myelin-...
Source: Fight Aging! - November 15, 2020 Category: Research Authors: Reason Tags: Newsletters Source Type: blogs
Inflammation in the Age-Related Thickening and Stiffening of Blood Vessel Walls
Age is characterized by a growing degree of unprompted, unresolved inflammation. Inflammation is a rousing of the immune system into action, a necessary process that aids in the defense of the body against pathogens, as well as in regeneration of injuries. In youth, inflammation is near always promptly resolved once the need is passed. In old age, however, inflammation becomes constant, triggered by many distinct causes: persistent infections; metabolic waste; the breakdown of the intestinal barrier and the blood-brain barrier, leaking unwanted molecules, cells, and pathogens; and rising numbers of senescent cells that sec...
Source: Fight Aging! - November 11, 2020 Category: Research Authors: Reason Tags: Medicine, Biotech, Research Source Type: blogs
Banishing the Organizational Shadow in Healthcare
Carl Jung once identified the shadow (or shadow archteype) as the unconscious aspect of the personality that the conscious mind and ego don ' t especially care to recognize as an aspect of the self. Some may refer to the shadow as the entirety of the unconscious mind. In this light, can we also deduce that organizations themselves also have a shadow? The Shadow Lurks Jung stated, “Everyone carries a shadow, and the less it is embodied in the individual ’s conscious life, the blacker and denser it is. ” He also said, “One does not become enlightened by imaging figures of light, but my making the darkness c...
Source: Digital Doorway - October 31, 2020 Category: Nursing Source Type: blogs
Sugar reduction: report on progress between 2015 and 2019
This report includes a detailed assessment of progress by the food industry, between 2015 and 2019, towards meeting the 20 per cent reduction ambition by 2020 for the sugar reduction programme. It also includes the first assessment of industry progress towards the sugar reduction ambition for juice and milk based drinks and assesses progress made by retailers and manufacturers and in the eating out of home sector.ReportPublic Health England - publications (Source: Health Management Specialist Library)
Source: Health Management Specialist Library - October 8, 2020 Category: UK Health Authors: The King ' s Fund Library Tags: Local authorities, public health and health inequalities Source Type: blogs
Defining Your Own Spiritual Path
Have you ever connected with someone who had strong preconceived notions about what your spiritual path should look like?
Apparently there’s a rulebook for being spiritual, and you have to satisfy certain criteria for how you’re supposed to think, feel, and behave in order to consider yourself a spiritual person. You got the memo summarizing those rules, right?
Being spiritual is a label and lens. But it’s not the same lens for everyone. We all assign different meanings to what it means to be spiritual or to walk a spiritual path. My meaning is undoubtedly different from yours.
These days I’...
Source: Steve Pavlina's Personal Development Blog - October 6, 2020 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Steve Pavlina Tags: Creating Reality Lifestyle Relationships Values Source Type: blogs
End the Vegan Tax
Vegans are typically well aware of the vegan tax – the extra money we pay to order a latte, a pizza, or some other item made vegan instead of with animal products. Substitute plant-based milk for dairy or vegan cheese for dairy cheese at a restaurant, and you can often expect to pay more.
Starbucks is one of the main outlets that’s been charging a vegan tax for years, whereby it costs extra to order a drink with soy milk, almond milk, or coconut milk instead of the same drink make with dairy. Lots of other places that offer drinks with plant-based milks also charge extra for it.
Depending on what you order, t...
Source: Steve Pavlina's Personal Development Blog - October 5, 2020 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Steve Pavlina Tags: Health Lifestyle Values Source Type: blogs
Dairy Tales: Global Portraits of Milk and Law
Jessica Eisen (Harvard Law School), Xiaoqian Hu (University of Arizona), Erum Sattar (Harvard Law School), Dairy Tales: Global Portraits of Milk and Law, 16 J. Food L.& Pol ’y 1 (2020): Milk appears across and within jurisdictions in distinct and... (Source: HealthLawProf Blog)
Source: HealthLawProf Blog - September 26, 2020 Category: Medical Law Authors: Katharine Van Tassel Source Type: blogs
Post #52 Overkill: When Modern Medicine Goes Too Far by Paul Offit M.D.
Overkill: When Modern Medicine Goes Too Far by Paul Offit M.D.I am admittedly a huge fanboy of Paul Offit, an infectious disease guru at Children ' s Hospital of Philadelphia, one of the preeminent pediatric hospitals in the world. His latest bookOverall: When Modern Medicine Goes Too Far, is a collection of medical facts that are already known to the well-read individual, but fly in the face of wrongly-held, out-dated, commonly-believed medical concepts. The majority of the incorrect information was previously considered the standard of care, but newer and better science and studies have clearly demonstrate...
Source: A Pediatrician's Blog - September 23, 2020 Category: Pediatrics Source Type: blogs
Brucellosis – how dangerous is it?
Brucellosis is most frequently transmitted via unpasteurized dairy products
Zoonotic diseases to be keeping the world on its toes. What is the disease responsible for the latest outbreak in China and what is its pathogenic potential?
Not the next COVID-19
Brucellosis is a category B bioterror disease, as classed by CDC. While it is one of the most important zoonotic diseases worldwide, brucellosis has limited pandemic potential, since human-to-human transmission is sporadic and occurs via blood, sexual exposure, or breastfeeding.
63% of cross-border events since 1965 were directly linked to the consumption of unpa...
Source: GIDEON blog - September 19, 2020 Category: Databases & Libraries Authors: Kristina Symes Tags: Epidemiology News Outbreaks Source Type: blogs
Leeuwenhoek: scientist who saw ‘animalcules’
Antonie van Leeuwenhoek and a drawing of animalcules
Some discover their aptitude for science by natural curiosity, which causes them to investigate their surroundings. In doing so they find many hidden secrets that only curiosity like theirs could have revealed. However, an inquisitive nature alone doesn’t make one a scientist. Explorers, adventurers, reporters, and criminal investigators all lead lives based on it too.
Something special happens when curiosity is coupled with an empirical mind. That combination begins to approach the scientific method. The only thing left is to provide a record of findings so tha...
Source: GIDEON blog - September 17, 2020 Category: Databases & Libraries Authors: Kristina Symes Tags: Microbiology News Source Type: blogs
6 all-natural sex tips for men
If you believe those upbeat, seductive advertisements, men only need to pop a pill to awaken their dormant sex life. Whether the problem is erectile dysfunction (ED) — the inability to maintain an erection for sex — or low libido, ED medications appear to be the quickest and easiest solution.
While these drugs work for most men, they are not right for everyone. ED drugs are relatively safe, but can cause possible side effects such as headaches, indigestion, and back pain. Plus, some men may not want their sex life dependent on regular medication, or simply can’t take them because of high or low blood pressure, or...
Source: Harvard Health Blog - September 15, 2020 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Matthew Solan Tags: Dental Health Diet and Weight Loss Exercise and Fitness Men's Health Source Type: blogs
Sunday Sermonette: God sure likes to kill people
Numbers 16 is very long, but actually in Hebrew texts it ' s divided into 2 chapters. Anyway, God once again threatens to kill everyone but Moses talks him out of it, which is getting to be an old story. Actually, in this chapter it happens twice. But God does kill a whole lot of people, first by burying an unknown number alive, then burning 250 to death for doing exactly what God had told them to do, and then God kills 14,700 in a plague. The political point of all this is to reaffirm the status of the descendants of Aaron -- the Kohanim -- as priests. Other members of the tribe of Levi performed various tasks conne...
Source: Stayin' Alive - September 6, 2020 Category: American Health Source Type: blogs
An ode to hospital cafeterias
I have been nourished by cafeteria food since elementary school. I remember the public school pizza squares with its melted artificial cheese, the fruit cocktail drenched in sickeningly sweet syrup, and 2 percent chocolate milk pints —costing $1.65 per meal. In college, I enjoyed access to a wider selection, including $6.50 custom omelets and midnight mozzarella […]Find jobs at Careers by KevinMD.com. Search thousands of physician, PA, NP, and CRNA jobs now. Learn more. (Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog)
Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog - August 30, 2020 Category: General Medicine Authors: < span itemprop="author" > < a href="https://www.kevinmd.com/blog/post-author/yoo-jung-kim" rel="tag" > Yoo Jung Kim, MD < /a > < /span > Tags: Physician Nutrition Source Type: blogs
Sunday Sermonette: A puzzling tale
Numbers 14 is one of the longer chapters. The basic idea -- that the people are condemned to wander in the wilderness for forty years -- is well known. However, I suspect that few people have actually read it and know all the details. It is a mystery why ten of the scouts would have given the report about the giants and the people in Canaan being formidable if it wasn ' t true. It must have been their honest opinion but why would God send them to scout out the land if he already knew what the right answer was supposed to be? That ' s the first puzzle.14 That night all the members of the community raised their voices a...
Source: Stayin' Alive - August 30, 2020 Category: American Health Source Type: blogs
