Why Do Kids of Smokers Wheeze Less When Mom Took Vitamin C During Pregnancy?
(MedPage Today) -- Improved airway function appeared to mediate the association between vitamin C supplementation and wheeze in kids whose mothers smoked and received vitamin C during pregnancy, a secondary analysis of clinical trial data found... (Source: MedPage Today Allergy)
Source: MedPage Today Allergy - April 9, 2024 Category: Allergy & Immunology Source Type: news
Pregnancy Accelerates Biological Aging
This study builds on epidemiological findings that high fertility can have negative side effects on women ' s health and longevity (Source: Disabled World)
Source: Disabled World - April 8, 2024 Category: Disability Tags: Pregnancy Information Source Type: news
Pregnancy may speed up biological ageing, study finds
Each pregnancy is linked with an additional two to three months of biological ageing, researchers sayPregnancy may speed up biological ageing in women, a study has found.Scientists at the Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health in New York looked at the reproductive histories and DNA samples from 1,735 people in a long-term, continuing health survey in the Philippines to investigate the influence pregnancy has on the ageing process.Continue reading... (Source: Guardian Unlimited Science)
Source: Guardian Unlimited Science - April 8, 2024 Category: Science Authors: Jamie Grierson Tags: Pregnancy Medical research Science World news Source Type: news
Pregnancy Can Make You Age Faster
Pregnancy is a wonder of biology, but new research shows that feat may come at a price. In a study published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, scientists found that women who have been pregnant showed more signs of biological aging compared to women who had never been pregnant before. The more times a woman had been pregnant, the faster her rate of biological aging.
“We’re learning that pregnancy has long-term effects on the body,” says Calen Ryan, associate research scientist at the Columbia University Aging Center at the Mailman School of Public Health. “They are not all bad,...
Source: TIME: Health - April 8, 2024 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Alice Park Tags: Uncategorized healthscienceclimate Source Type: news
South Africa: Health Sector Needs More Women Leaders to Tackle Backlash Against Sexual and Reproductive Rights - - Experts
[Daily Maverick] Amid an escalating anti-rights backlash, health experts have stressed the need for a policy initiative to promote gender equity in health leadership. (Source: AllAfrica News: Pregnancy and Childbirth)
Source: AllAfrica News: Pregnancy and Childbirth - April 8, 2024 Category: OBGYN Tags: Health and Medicine Pregnancy and Childbirth South Africa Southern Africa Women and Gender Source Type: news
Ghanaian women's experience of intimate partner violence (IPV) during group antenatal care: a brief report from a cluster randomised controlled trial - Abdelnabi SJ, Munro-Kramer ML, Moyer CA, Williams JEO, Lori JR.
This study describes an exploratory aim of a cluster randomised controlled trial designed to assess the outcomes ... (Source: SafetyLit)
Source: SafetyLit - April 8, 2024 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Tags: Age: Adolescents Source Type: news
Trump says he'll announce his position on abortion Monday, a key moment in the presidential race
Former President Donald Trump says he will finally announce Monday when in pregnancy he believes abortions should be banned (Source: ABC News: Health)
Source: ABC News: Health - April 8, 2024 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: Health Source Type: news
Madagascar: Mother Makes 200km Emergency Trip Across Rural Madagascar to Save Baby
[UN News] A young mother in Madagascar has been describing how she was forced to make a 200km emergency journey on challenging rural roads to a specialist regional hospital after she experienced difficulties giving birth at home. (Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine)
Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine - April 7, 2024 Category: African Health Tags: East Africa External Relations Health and Medicine International Organizations and Africa Madagascar Pregnancy and Childbirth Source Type: news
Associations among plurisexual identity, intimate partner violence, reproductive coercion, and parental monitoring in a sample of adolescent and young adult pregnant people - Ragavan MI, Coulter RWS, Sickler L, Shaw DS, De Genna NM.
PURPOSE: The goal of this study was to examine plurisexual identity, intimate partner violence (IPV), reproductive coercion, and parental monitoring among pregnant 13-21-year-olds. METHODS: We conducted a cross-sectional analysis of data collected ... (Source: SafetyLit)
Source: SafetyLit - April 6, 2024 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Tags: Age: Adolescents Source Type: news
Evidence of Dangerous ‘ Forever Chemicals ’ Found in Bandages
Many brands of bandages may contain PFAS chemicals, according to a new report commissioned by Environmental Health News (EHN) and the consumer watchdog site Mamavation. Of the 40 bandages they analyzed in a lab, 65% contained signs of PFAS chemicals.
Also known as “forever chemicals,” because that’s approximately how long they linger in the environment, there are at least 12,000 types of PFAS. The health consequences of PFAS exposure are unclear. But this class of chemicals has been linked by the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to increased risk of certain cancers, decreased fertility, high blood...
Source: TIME: Health - April 5, 2024 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Jeffrey Kluger Tags: Uncategorized healthscienceclimate Source Type: news
Why Heart Disease Research Still Favors Men
Published in partnership with The Fuller Project, a nonprofit newsroom dedicated to the coverage of women’s issues around the world.
Katherine Fitzgerald had just arrived at the party. Before she could even get a drink, she threw up and broke out in a sweat. “I was dizzy. I couldn’t breathe. I had heart pain,” Fitzgerald says.
She knew she was having a heart attack.
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What she didn’t know then was that the heart attack could have been prevented. Fitzgerald, a health-conscious, exercise-loving lawyer, should have been taking statin drugs to s...
Source: TIME: Health - April 5, 2024 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Maggie Fox Tags: Uncategorized freelance healthscienceclimate Source Type: news
How UNFPA helps mothers around the world embrace their right to good health and safe pregnancy
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Source: UNFPA News - April 5, 2024 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Source Type: news
As more pregnant people face homelessness in Hamilton, YWCA pitches new facility to offer shelter and care
At the height of the pandemic, YWCA Hamilton staff were encountering women experiencing homelessness who were pregnant but going without prenatal care late into their pregnancy, or not at all. The non-profit started a small, low-barrier program to help in 2021 and are now looking to expand. (Source: CBC | Health)
Source: CBC | Health - April 5, 2024 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: News/Canada/Hamilton Source Type: news
MRI shows preeclampsia's effect on maternal heart, fetal brain
MRI reveals the negative effects of preeclampsia on pregnant women's hearts and on the brains of their fetuses, according to research published in the April issue of Hypertension.
The results highlight MRI's benefits as a prenatal assessment tool, wrote a group led by Megan Hall, MD, of St Thomas' Hospital in London, U.K.
"As well as giving insight into the immediate pathophysiological impact of preeclampsia, [MRI] holds potential as a valuable tool for risk stratification both antenatally and when considering longer-term cardiovascular risk in women," it noted.
Preeclampsia is a disease of pregnancy that has both short...
Source: AuntMinnie.com Headlines - April 5, 2024 Category: Radiology Authors: Kate Madden Yee Tags: Clinical News Womens Imaging Ob/Gyn Source Type: news
Qualitative evaluation of an edutainment intervention to prevent age-disparate transactional sex in Tanzania: changes in educational aspirations and gender equitable attitudes towards work - Pichon M, Buller AM, Gimunta V, Rutenge O, Thiaw Y, Sono R, Howard-Merrill L.
Age-disparate transactional sex is a major contributor to the disproportionate rates of HIV experienced by adolescent girls in sub-Saharan Africa, and a key driver of unintended adolescent pregnancy. This paper comprises one element of the impact evaluatio... (Source: SafetyLit)
Source: SafetyLit - April 5, 2024 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Tags: Media, Marketing, and Internet Issues Source Type: news
