How Climate Change and Air Pollution Affect Kids ’ Health
Climate change affects everyone, but especially children. Their small bodies—and the fact that they grow so rapidly, starting from the time they’re in utero—make them more vulnerable to toxins, pollution, and other climate-change fallout. Over their lifetimes, kids also face greater exposure to the damage of climate change than adults.
A new scientific review article published in the New England Journal of Medicine shows just how dangerous climate-related threats are to children’s health. The researchers analyzed data about the specific effects of a rapidly warming planet and found that climate chan...
Source: TIME: Health - June 17, 2022 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Tara Law Tags: Uncategorized healthscienceclimate Public Health Source Type: news
Premature baby saved by CUDDLES from her mother
Elsie Dutton, who was born just 23 weeks old, is now back with her family in Barnsley, South Yorks in part thanks to a cuddling routine which helped stabilise her tiny heart. (Source: the Mail online | Health)
Source: the Mail online | Health - June 13, 2022 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
Do Premature Babies Hit Milestones Later?
Title: Do Premature Babies Hit Milestones Later?Category: Health and LivingCreated: 6/10/2021 12:00:00 AMLast Editorial Review: 6/3/2022 12:00:00 AM (Source: MedicineNet Kids Health General)
Source: MedicineNet Kids Health General - June 3, 2022 Category: Pediatrics Source Type: news
Over Two Decades of Impunity for Environmental and Health Disaster in Peruvian Village
Juana Martínez takes part in an October 2021 protest in Lima organized by the platform of people affected by heavy metals in front of Congress, holding a sign that reads: "Cajamarca. Mercury Never Again". She was 29 years old when the mercury spill occurred in her town, Choropampa, in Peru’s northern Andes highlands. Several of her relatives have since died from the effects of the heavy metal and one of her sisters became sterile. CREDIT: Courtesy of Milagros PérezBy Mariela JaraLIMA, Jun 3 2022 (IPS) “We are not asking for money, but for our health, for a dignified life,” is the cry of the people of Chorop...
Source: IPS Inter Press Service - Health - June 3, 2022 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Authors: Mariela Jara Tags: Active Citizens Civil Society Crime & Justice Development & Aid Editors' Choice Environment Featured Headlines Health Human Rights Humanitarian Emergencies Indigenous Rights Latin America & the Caribbean Regional Categories gol Source Type: news
How Parents Should Handle the Baby Formula Shortage, According to Pediatricians
The U.S. is still in the throes of an unprecedented infant-formula shortage. Supply-chain issues caused by the pandemic started affecting baby formula in the summer of 2021, and inventory constricted even further after Abbott recalled certain formula products in February (then more in March) and shut down its Michigan plant.
Families facing empty shelves are terrified that their children will go hungry, since breast milk or formula—or a combination of both—is a main source of nutrition for babies from birth until about age one.
“It’s not fair that families have to be even worried about this on top o...
Source: TIME: Health - May 27, 2022 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Melody Schreiber Tags: Uncategorized healthscienceclimate Public Health Source Type: news
U.S. Births Rose Last Year. But They ’re Still Less Than Before the Pandemic
NEW YORK — U.S. births bumped up last year, but the number of babies born was still lower than before the coronavirus pandemic.
The 1% increase was a bit of a rebound from 2020, the first year of the pandemic, which witnessed the largest one-year drop in the U.S. births in nearly 50 years.
But there were still about 86,000 fewer births last year than in 2019, according to a government report released Tuesday.
“We’re still not returning to pre-pandemic levels,” said Dr. Denise Jamieson, chair of gynecology and obstetrics at Emory University School of Medicine.
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Source: TIME: Health - May 24, 2022 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Mike Stobbe / AP Tags: Uncategorized COVID-19 healthscienceclimate wire Source Type: news
Medical advances saving premature babies pose thorny issues for abortion rights advocates
Babies are surviving earlier in pregnancy than ever before, complicating the debate over fetal viability at issue in the Mississippi abortion case now before the high court. (Source: Washington Post: To Your Health)
Source: Washington Post: To Your Health - May 19, 2022 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Ariana Eunjung Cha Source Type: news
“ Smart ” pacifier could improve care of premature babies in the hospital
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Source: WBZ-TV - Breaking News, Weather and Sports for Boston, Worcester and New Hampshire - May 16, 2022 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Health – CBS Boston Tags: Boston News Health Healthwatch Seen On WBZ-TV Syndicated Local Dr. Mallika Marshall NICU Source Type: news
E-cigarettes ‘as safe as nicotine patches’ for pregnant smokers trying to quit
Pregnant smokers were more likely to quit when using e-cigarettes than patches after four weeks, study showsE-cigarettes are as safe to use as nicotine patches for pregnant smokers trying to quit, and may be a more effective tool, researchers have revealed.Smoking in pregnancy can increase the risk of outcomes including premature birth, miscarriage and the baby having a low birth weight. But stubbing out the habit can be a struggle.Continue reading... (Source: Guardian Unlimited Science)
Source: Guardian Unlimited Science - May 16, 2022 Category: Science Authors: Nicola Davis Tags: E-cigarettes UK news Smoking Society Science Health Pregnancy Source Type: news
Personal approach enables MRI in autistic patients
Successful MRI exams in autistic patients require effective communication, training...Read more on AuntMinnie.comRelated Reading:
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Pediatric patients go to the dogs for MRI anxiety relief (Source: AuntMinnie.com Headlines)
Source: AuntMinnie.com Headlines - May 7, 2022 Category: Radiology Source Type: news
MRI shows that long-term diabetes elevated gray-matter atrophy risk
Japanese researchers using MRI have found that longer a person has diabetes...Read more on AuntMinnie.comRelated Reading:
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Deep learning improves Alzheimer's disease detection on brain MRI (Source: AuntMinnie.com Headlines)
Source: AuntMinnie.com Headlines - May 6, 2022 Category: Radiology Source Type: news
Miss Brighton pageant winner overcame a difficult start in life – premature birth risks
DANIELLE EVANS recently won the title of Miss Brighton for the second year running, but as a baby, the pageant winner could have easily lost her life. (Source: Daily Express - Health)
Source: Daily Express - Health - May 1, 2022 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
MRI highlights how prenatal maternal distress affects children
A research team using MRI has found that prenatal maternal distress alters th...Read more on AuntMinnie.comRelated Reading:
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Heart-healthy adults have healthier brains on MRI scans (Source: AuntMinnie.com Headlines)
Source: AuntMinnie.com Headlines - April 29, 2022 Category: Radiology Source Type: news
NNLM Reading Club May 2022: Caring for Black Mothers
The CDC is focused on addressing a startling statistic: Black women are three times more likely to die from a pregnancy-related cause than White women. Differences in healthcare quality, underlying chronic health conditions, structural racism, and implicit bias contribute to this disparity. Social determinants of health, which are defined by the CDC as, “conditions in the places where people live, learn, work, and play that affect a wide range of health risks and outcomes,” prevent many people from racial and ethnic minority groups from having fair opportunities for economic, physical, and emotional health and contribu...
Source: The Cornflower - April 29, 2022 Category: Databases & Libraries Authors: Darlene Kaskie Tags: NNLM Reading Club Source Type: news
Mother reveals how doctors saved her premature baby by wrapping him in a PLASTIC BAG
Isabella Gailbraith, from Worcestershire, gave birth to Pace who was so small he had to be placed inside a plastic drawstring bag to keep him warm moments after being delivered. (Source: the Mail online | Health)
Source: the Mail online | Health - April 27, 2022 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
