Hormone therapy could prevent thousands of miscarriages each year in Britain, new NHS guidance says
Britain's health watchdog has approved the drug progesterone for expectant mothers who have previously had a miscarriage and are experiencing spotting or bleeding. (Source: the Mail online | Health)
Source: the Mail online | Health - November 24, 2021 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
Progesterone recommended to prevent early miscarriage
The hormonal treatment could lead to 8,450 more babies being born each year in the UK, experts say. (Source: BBC News | Health | UK Edition)
Source: BBC News | Health | UK Edition - November 24, 2021 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
James Van Der Beek & Wife Kimberly Welcome Baby No. 6 After Heartbreaking Miscarriages
James Van Der Beek took to Instagram to announce the joyous news that he and his wife Kimberly welcomed son Jeremiah after ‘experiencing late term pregnancy loss’ twice, which a was cau… #kimberlywelcomebaby #jamesvanderbeek #jeremiah (Source: Reuters: Health)
Source: Reuters: Health - November 22, 2021 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
Co-Author Retracting COVID Vaccines Linked to Miscarriage Paper Co-Author Retracting COVID Vaccines Linked to Miscarriage Paper
A pair of New Zealand researchers have asked for the retraction of a controversial article on the risk of miscarriage in pregnant women who receive COVID-19 vaccination.Retraction Watch (Source: Medscape Medical News Headlines)
Source: Medscape Medical News Headlines - November 17, 2021 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: Infectious Diseases News Source Type: news
The disproportionate burdens of the mifepristone REMS
Of the people who need abortion care in the United States every year, 75% are poor or living on low-incomes and approximately 60% are Black, Indigenous, and other people of color. Black, Indigenous, and other people of color face profound inequities in accessing essential health care as a result of a long history of systemic racism and discrimination. Accessing abortion is no different. Further, due to the stark racial disparities in maternal mortality and morbidity in the United States, Black and Indigenous people who cannot access the abortion care they need confront unconscionably elevated risks in carrying a pregnancy ...
Source: The Guttmacher Institute - November 11, 2021 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Authors: Guttmacher Source Type: news
Sperm Donation Improves Post-ICSI Birth Rates in Older Patients Sperm Donation Improves Post-ICSI Birth Rates in Older Patients
This study suggests that sperm donation increases live birth rates while reducing miscarriage occurrence in advanced maternal age patients.Human Reproduction (Source: Medscape Today Headlines)
Source: Medscape Today Headlines - November 10, 2021 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: Ob/Gyn & Women ' s Health Journal Article Source Type: news
‘He was adamant he didn’t want it’: the pro-vax parents with vaccine-hesitant kids
Among under-18s, vaccine uptake is low, and there is a growing issue with misinformation spread on social media and at school. Is there anything a concerned caregiver can do?Throughout the pandemic, Anna has worked for the NHS. She has seen the effects of Covid-19 first-hand and, although she worked remotely because she was in a vulnerable group, other colleagues – she is a physiotherapist – were deployed to Covid wards at the height of hospital admissions. “At the trust I work for, they’re setting up a long-Covid service,” she says. She comes home and her son Sam, 16, listens to her talk about it – and yet he ...
Source: Guardian Unlimited Science - November 4, 2021 Category: Science Authors: Emine Saner Tags: Vaccines and immunisation Coronavirus Children Infectious diseases Medical research Microbiology Science World news Young people Health Society Source Type: news
NHS trusts are urged to ditch 'rule of three' to prevent patients from losing more babies
Women who suffer a miscarriage will be offered help earlier under proposed new guidelines to stop them losing more babies. (Source: the Mail online | Health)
Source: the Mail online | Health - October 19, 2021 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
Group decries sentencing of Oklahoma woman for miscarriage
A women's advocacy group is decrying the sentencing of an Oklahoma woman to prison after she suffered a miscarriage while using methamphetamine (Source: ABC News: Health)
Source: ABC News: Health - October 18, 2021 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: Health Source Type: news
Elizabeth Holmes on trial: Theranos likened to a 'parallel universe'
The fraud trial of Theranos founder Elizabeth Holmes on Tuesday enters its fourth full week, with more testimony expected from influential power brokers who backed her and others raised concerns about faulty blood tests.
Jurors in U.S. District Court in San Jose so far have heard some of the defunct company's former employees testify about concerns they raised with Holmes about its blood tests, as well as an account of an erroneous diagnosis of a likely pregnancy miscarriage.
They have also heard… (Source: bizjournals.com Health Care:Physician Practices headlines)
Source: bizjournals.com Health Care:Physician Practices headlines - September 28, 2021 Category: American Health Authors: Cromwell Schubarth Source Type: news
NHS England medical director warns parents against hoax Covid vaccine letters
The letter, which includes a fake NHS England logo, contains a 'consent checklist' and a number of false assertions about the jab, including that it can cause miscarriages and blindness. (Source: the Mail online | Health)
Source: the Mail online | Health - September 28, 2021 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
Theranos trial jury hears from patient, nurse of false miscarriage reading from blood test
Testimony about a bad reading from a Theranos blood test is expected to be followed this week with the introduction of love notes between Elizabeth Holmes and the Silicon Valley company's president. Here's more on that and other coverage of the trial. (Source: bizjournals.com Health Care:Physician Practices headlines)
Source: bizjournals.com Health Care:Physician Practices headlines - September 22, 2021 Category: American Health Authors: Cromwell Schubarth Source Type: news
More Reassuring Data on COVID-19 Vaccines and Pregnancy More Reassuring Data on COVID-19 Vaccines and Pregnancy
New data show no increase in risk for miscarriage associated with the COVID-19 vaccine; 8.6% of those who suffered miscarriages had had the vaccine, vs 8.0% of those with ongoing pregnancies.Medscape Medical News (Source: Medscape Medical News Headlines)
Source: Medscape Medical News Headlines - September 9, 2021 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: Ob/Gyn & Women ' s Health News Source Type: news
Covid vaccines do NOT increase the risk of miscarriage in pregnant women, two new studies find
Two new studies found that women who suffered miscarriages were not more likely to have received a COVID-19 vaccine in comparison with women who were still pregnant. (Source: the Mail online | Health)
Source: the Mail online | Health - September 8, 2021 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
The Women Who Say Pregnancy Made Them More Pro-Choice
These moms say their experiences with pregnancy, infertility, miscarriages, childbirth — and even parenthood — radically shaped their views on abortion rights. (Source: Healthy Living - The Huffington Post)
Source: Healthy Living - The Huffington Post - September 3, 2021 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
