Ultrasound shows ties between uterine fibroid risk, family history
Ultrasound data shows that family history of uterine fibroids is a risk factor for incident fibroids in Black and African American women, a study published April 3 in JAMA Network Open found.
Researchers led by Christine Langton, PhD, from the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences in Research Triangle Park, NC, found that this trend was especially prevalent when mothers were diagnosed at a younger age. They also found that maternal history was tied to increased fibroid growth.
"While we confirmed that earlier maternal diagnosis had the strongest association with fibroid incidence, we were surprised that inc...
Source: AuntMinnie.com Headlines - April 3, 2024 Category: Radiology Authors: Amerigo Allegretto Tags: Ultrasound Womens Imaging Source Type: news
What Are Potential Complications of a Forceps Delivery?
Discussion
The main outcome of any delivery is to have a healthy mother and healthy child. For millinea, mothers delivered babies with the help of their mothers and learned women without the benefits of potential instrumented interventions when complications arose, and today they are options for some deliveries. Instrumented delivery techniques have markedly decreased maternal and neonatal morbidity and mortality. Instrument delivery techniques in the second stage of labor includes forceps (begun in the 1600s), vacuum delivery (mainly use began in 1950s) and second stage cesarean section (cesarean section being first used ...
Source: PediatricEducation.org - October 23, 2023 Category: Pediatrics Authors: Pediatric Education Tags: Uncategorized Source Type: news
Forceps May Help Moms With Obesity Avoid Cesareans Forceps May Help Moms With Obesity Avoid Cesareans
Physicians who attempt operative vaginal delivery are more likely to resort to a cesarean delivery when patients have obesity.Medscape Medical News (Source: Medscape General Surgery Headlines)
Source: Medscape General Surgery Headlines - March 24, 2023 Category: Surgery Tags: Ob/Gyn & Women ' s Health News Source Type: news
How Long Does A Cephalohematoma Take to Resolve?
Discussion
Cephalomatomas occur relatively commonly in 0.2-3% of newborn infants. They are blood collections in the subperiosteal skull bones, usually in the parietal area. They are usually unilateral but can be bilateral. They do not transilluminate. They are felt to be caused by pressure or other trauma and occur in vaginal and cesarean deliveries, with presumed periosteal disruption leading to externally located bleeding (not on the brain side of the bone). The blood fills the space with some pressure building up and the blood acts to tamponade itself. The blood coagulates, slowly organizes and is reabsorbed. If reabsor...
Source: PediatricEducation.org - September 12, 2022 Category: Pediatrics Authors: Pediatric Education Tags: Uncategorized Source Type: news
Physician Loses Right Leg, Sues Podiatrist; More Physician Loses Right Leg, Sues Podiatrist; More
Physician claims ill-advised treatment and total contact cast directly caused his injuries that led to amputation; doctor wins forceps-delivery suit; unsupervised PAs subject to med-mal cap, state says.Medscape Medical News (Source: Medscape Medical News Headlines)
Source: Medscape Medical News Headlines - March 16, 2022 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: Family Medicine/Primary Care News Source Type: news
Ultrasound helps predict difficult vaginal delivery
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Ultrasound helps diagnose pediatric abdominal problems (Source: AuntMinnie.com Headlines)
Source: AuntMinnie.com Headlines - February 25, 2022 Category: Radiology Source Type: news
Trauma Rates With OVD Unexpectedly High, Study Finds Trauma Rates With OVD Unexpectedly High, Study Finds
An analysis of more than 1 million deliveries in Canada found that more than 1 in 4 women undergoing forceps delivery suffer trauma from the procedure.Medscape Medical News (Source: Medscape Medical News Headlines)
Source: Medscape Medical News Headlines - January 14, 2022 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: Ob/Gyn & Women ' s Health News Source Type: news
The infrastructural capacity of Ghanaian health facilities to provide safe abortion and post-abortion care: a cross-sectional study
ConclusionsSAC provision is much lower than PAC provision overall, yet there are persistent gaps in capacity to deliver basic PAC at primary facilities. These results highlight a need for the Ghana Ministry of Health to improve the infrastructural capability of health facilities to provide comprehensive abortion care. (Source: The Guttmacher Institute)
Source: The Guttmacher Institute - November 11, 2021 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Authors: Guttmacher Source Type: news
Balancing political and criminogenic needs: evaluating the New Zealand Department of Corrections' response to men assessed with a below average risk for sexual recidivism - Carr AE, Willis GM.
Current research provides little evidence for the effectiveness of treatment in reducing sexual offence recidivism amongst low-risk populations. However, in real-world correctional settings, program delivery rarely occurs in a vacuum, treatment may be poli... (Source: SafetyLit)
Source: SafetyLit - September 27, 2021 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Tags: Economics of Injury and Safety, PTSD, Injury Outcomes Source Type: news
Africa Goes Digital
Viral Facts Africa, a first of its kind African initiative to combat health misinformation online, was launched recently by the World Health Organization (WHO) and a network of fact-checking organizations and leading public health bodies. By Cristina DuarteUNITED NATIONS, May 7 2021 (IPS) In rebuilding after COVID-19, policymakers must invest in innovative technology to leapfrog obstacles to inclusive development. Africa has enjoyed strong economic growth for most of the 21st century, mainly because of robust global demand for primary commodities.
But the “Africa Rising” narrative that accompanied this growth is mostl...
Source: IPS Inter Press Service - Health - May 7, 2021 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Authors: Cristina Duarte Tags: Africa Development & Aid Economy & Trade Education Headlines Health Humanitarian Emergencies Poverty & SDGs Sustainability TerraViva United Nations Source Type: news
While industrial oxygen has been diverted for medical use, problems in transportation and delivery remain
According to gases manufacturers, there is a shortage of cryogenic vessels and tankers as well. This may hamper the bulk transportation of liquid oxygen from distant gas plants. Liquid oxygen, in bulk, can only be transported in a cryogenic vessel, which is also called a vacuum-insulated pressure vessel. (Source: The Economic Times)
Source: The Economic Times - April 24, 2021 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
Inside San Francisco ’s Ambitious Plan to Bring Universal Coronavirus Testing to An Entire U.S. City
Public health experts can’t say it enough: If the U.S. is going to beat COVID-19, the country needs to ramp up testing. But there’s no single blueprint for cities and states to follow as they respond to that call.
Some, like Los Angeles, are going big. In late April, L.A. became the first major city to offer free testing to any resident. Others, like San Francisco, are doing things in a more progressive style, with goals that are just as ambitious.
The latter is strategizing from a place of strength. Thanks to some of the nation’s earliest stay-at-home orders, San Francisco has, so far, flattened the curv...
Source: TIME: Health - May 22, 2020 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Katy Steinmetz Tags: Uncategorized COVID-19 Source Type: news
Never Give up on Women ’s Rights – Edna Ismail
By IPS International DeskNEW YORK, Mar 20 2020 (IPS) For Dr Edna Adan Ismail maternal health and midwifery is deeply personal. In an interview with Women Deliver Young Leader Musu Bakoto Sawo, Ismail recalls her mother’s devasting experiences which impacted on her own life’s choices.
Dr. Edna Adan Ismail“As detailed in my memoir, ‘A Woman of Firsts,’ my own parents lost two of their five children because of poor maternal and child health services in my country,” the former Somaliland Foreign Minister and founder of Edna Adan Hospital says.
“My mother lost one baby to a forceps delivery when a Caesarean secti...
Source: IPS Inter Press Service - Health - March 20, 2020 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Authors: IPS INTERNATIONAL DESK Tags: Active Citizens Africa Civil Society Education Featured Gender Gender Violence Global Headlines Health Human Rights Poverty & SDGs TerraViva United Nations Women's Health Women Deliver Source Type: news
