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High blood pressure during pregnancy could elevate the risk of a future stroke
(Heart and Stroke Foundation of Canada) High blood pressure during pregnancy could dramatically raise a woman's lifetime risk of stroke, according to a study presented today at the Canadian Stroke Congress.
Source: EurekAlert! - Medicine and Health - October 18, 2013 Category: Global & Universal Source Type: news
Want to Prevent Stroke, Diabetes, Cancer? Get Moving … Now!
Worldwide, 81 per cent of school-aged children are not active enough. Photo: WHOBy Baher KamalROME, Feb 2 2017 (IPS)Tired, lazy, bored, laying down long hours watching TV or seated checking your email? Wrong. And dangerous: not enough exercise contributes to cancer, diabetes, depression and other non-communicable diseases. The warning is bold and comes from the United Nations top health organisation, which is urging people to get up and get active.And the risks of inactivity are expanding alarmingly: according to a new document by the World Health Organization (WHO), less and less people are active in many countries – wi...
Source: IPS Inter Press Service - Health - February 2, 2017 Category: Global & Universal Authors: Baher Kamal Tags: Environment Featured Global Headlines Health IPS UN: Inside the Glasshouse TerraViva United Nations Source Type: news
Pregnancy-related stroke more common among black women
(American Heart Association) The risk of pregnancy-related stroke is much higher among black women than among white women.
Source: EurekAlert! - Medicine and Health - January 30, 2019 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Source Type: news
EPMA-World Congress 2015
Table of contents
A1 Predictive and prognostic biomarker panel for targeted application of radioembolisation improving individual outcomes in hepatocellular carcinoma
Jella-Andrea Abraham, Olga Golubnitschaja
A2 Integrated market access approach amplifying value of “Rx-CDx”
Ildar Akhmetov
A3 Disaster response: an opportunity to improve global healthcare
Russell J. Andrews, Leonidas Quintana
A4 USA PPPM: proscriptive, profligate, profiteering medicine-good for 1 % wealthy, not for 99 % unhealthy
Russell J. Andrews
A5 The role of ...
Source: EPMA Journal - May 8, 2016 Category: Global & Universal Source Type: research
Women ’s Health Policies Should Focus on NCDs
Professor Robyn Norton, co-founder and Principal Director of the George Institute for Global Health. Credit: Neena Bhandari/IPSBy Neena BhandariSYDNEY, Apr 11 2017 (IPS)Science and medicine were not subjects of dinnertime conversations in the Norton household in Christchurch, New Zealand, but Professor Robyn Norton grew up observing her parents’ commitment to equity and social justice in improving people’s lives. It left an indelible impression on her young mind.Her high school years coincided with the women’s movement reaching its peak. She got drawn into thinking about addressing women’s health issues and moved t...
Source: IPS Inter Press Service - Health - April 11, 2017 Category: Global & Universal Authors: Neena Bhandari Tags: Asia-Pacific Featured Global Headlines Health Poverty & SDGs Women's Health Non-communicable Diseases (NCDs) Source Type: news
Pre-pregnancy check-up of maternal vascular status and associated phenotype is crucial for the health of mother and offspring
AbstractCardiovascular disease remains the leading cause of disease burden globally with far-reaching consequences including enormous socio-economic burden to healthcare and society at large. Cardiovascular health is decisive for reproductive function, healthy pregnancy and postpartum. During pregnancy, maternal cardiovascular system is exposed to highly increased haemodynamic stress that significantly impacts health status of the mother and offspring. Resulting from sub-optimal maternal health conditions overlooked in pre-pregnancy time, progressive abnormalities can be expected during pregnancy and postpartum. Contextual...
Source: EPMA Journal - August 17, 2022 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Source Type: research
Rates of Preeclampsia and Post-preeclamptic Cardiovascular Disease Among US Military Servicewomen: A Retrospective Case-cohort Study
CONCLUSION: In this study, we report overall higher incidence of PE in military women than what is published for civilian women in all races and across all services. Importantly, we do not find significantly higher numbers of PE and post-PE CVD for African American, compared to White women in the military. Our study is not designed to address differences between military and civilian PE epidemiology, but these results deserve further exploration. This study shines light on a health risk unique to women, which we found to be more prevalent in the US Military than published civilian population. Further study to determine the...
Source: Military Medicine - August 4, 2023 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Authors: Thornton S Mu Amelia Duran-Stanton Emily A Stone Lee Ann Zarzabal Andrea Loewendorf Source Type: research
A mother's high cholesterol before pregnancy can be passed on to her children
(Heart and Stroke Foundation of Canada) What leads to high cholesterol? Your genes and lifestyle factors may not explain it all. A study presented today at the Canadian Cardiovascular Congress has connected some of the risk for high cholesterol in adults to their mother's cholesterol levels before she even became pregnant.
Source: EurekAlert! - Medicine and Health - October 17, 2013 Category: Global & Universal Source Type: news
Groups Push Obama to Clarify U.S. Abortion Funding for Wartime Rape
Survivors at a workshop in Pader, northern Uganda. Thousands of women were raped during Uganda’s civil war but there have been few government efforts to assist them. Credit: Rosebell Kagumire/IPSBy Carey L. BironWASHINGTON, Dec 10 2014 (IPS)Nearly two dozen health, advocacy and faith groups are calling on President Barack Obama to take executive action clarifying that U.S. assistance can be used to fund abortion services for women and girls raped in the context of war and conflict.The groups gathered Tuesday outside of the White House to draw attention to what they say is an ongoing misreading by politicians as well as h...
Source: IPS Inter Press Service - Health - December 10, 2014 Category: Global & Universal Authors: Carey L. Biron Tags: Active Citizens Aid Armed Conflicts Civil Society Crime & Justice Gender Gender Violence Global Headlines Health Human Rights Humanitarian Emergencies North America Population TerraViva United Nations Women's Health Abortio Source Type: news
Suffer the Infants: A Severe Case of Pertussis in Oregon, 2012.
This report describes an Oregon infant who was hospitalized with pertussis for 90 days, required extracorporeal oxygenation for 43 days, suffered complications including stroke, and had hospital charges totaling $1.5 million. Pertussis morbidity among young infants argues for vaccination of women during each pregnancy and of infants beginning promptly at two months of age.
PMID: 26327720 [PubMed - in process]
Source: Public Health Reports - September 6, 2015 Category: Global & Universal Tags: Public Health Rep Source Type: research
Needs of Internally Displaced Women and Children in Baghdad, Karbala, and Kirkuk, Iraq
Conclusions
The vulnerability of this population is great, and the emotional trauma of multiple displacements, kidnapping and deaths from intentional violence is great. While some aid is reaching families, much more is needed. Though Iraq is a middle income country, reaching the IDPs in central Iraq will take much more in international assistance than is currently being received. Unfortunately, at this time of great need, assistance is being cut back throughout the region because of lack of funding.10 The local civil society organizations which have sprung up in many locations to assist IDPs, offer an avenue for targeting ...
Source: PLOS Currents Disasters - June 10, 2016 Category: Global & Universal Authors: Gilbert Burnham Source Type: research
Fatal folic acid toxicity in humans - Devnath GP, Kumaran S, Rajiv R, Shaha KK, Nagaraj A.
Folic acid is B-9 vitamin. Folic acid is prescribed commonly for pregnant women to prevent neural tube defects in the fetus, patients under chemotherapy, pernicious anemia and to reduce the risk of stroke and cardiovascular disease. Acute or chronic ingest...
Source: SafetyLit - March 11, 2017 Category: Global & Universal Tags: Home and Consumer Product Safety Source Type: news
Mind the Treatment Gap
getty images/ istock photoBy Vani S. Kulkarni and Raghav GaihaPHILADELPHIA AND NEW DELHI, Apr 14 2017 (IPS)Implementation of the Mental Healthcare Act will require a restructuring of health-care services The Mental Healthcare Bill, 2016, which was passed in the Lok Sabha on March 27, 2017, has been hailed as a momentous reform. According to the Bill, every person will have the right to access mental health care operated or funded by the government; good quality and affordable health care; equality of treatment and protection from inhuman practices; access to legal services; and right to complain against coercion and cruelt...
Source: IPS Inter Press Service - Health - April 14, 2017 Category: Global & Universal Authors: Vani Kulkarni and Raghav Gaiha Tags: Asia-Pacific Development & Aid Gender Gender Violence Headlines Health Human Rights Women's Health Source Type: news
Comorbidity Status and Annual Total Medical Expenditures in U.S. Hypertensive Adults
Conclusions Comorbidities are highly prevalent among hypertensive adults, and this study shows that each comorbidity significantly increases annual total medical expenditures.
Source: American Journal of Preventive Medicine - November 16, 2017 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Source Type: research
