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Women May Face Higher Risk of Stroke Following Infertility Treatment
In the largest study of its kind, scientists found higher odds of stroke after childbirth among women who had received the treatments. Still, the number of strokes remained very low overall.
Source: NYT Health - August 30, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Roni Caryn Rabin Tags: your-feed-health your-feed-healthcare Infertility Women and Girls Pregnancy and Childbirth Stroke Maternal Mortality Preeclampsia Reproduction (Biological) Estrogen Source Type: news
What Prohibition Can Teach Us About Drug and Alcohol Policy Today
It’s widely understood today that drinking while pregnant is harmful for the fetus. But the link between alcohol and the health of infants wasn’t as well known in the 1930s, when prohibition was repealed in the U.S. and all sorts of people, pregnant women included, began drinking again.Because prohibition was lifted on a piecemeal basis across the U.S., some counties continued to prohibit alcohol, or stay “dry,” while their neighboring counties were “wet.” Those conditions created what economists call a natural experiment, and made it possible to track the health impacts of maternal drin...
Source: TIME: Health - August 2, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Oliver Staley Tags: Uncategorized Public Health Source Type: news
El cuarto trimestre o los riesgos despu és del parto
Estudios recientes muestran que la mayor ía de las muertes relacionadas con el embarazo ocurren en el año posterior al parto. El hallazgo está cambiando la manera en que los médicos atienden a las nuevas madres.
Source: NYT Health - May 31, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Roni Caryn Rabin Tags: Maternal Mortality Pregnancy and Childbirth Deaths (Fatalities) Black People Native Americans Heart Blood Pressure Hypertension Stroke Preeclampsia Suicides and Suicide Attempts Depression (Mental) Mental Health and Disorders Anx Source Type: news
Maternity ’s Most Dangerous Time: After New Mothers Come Home
Recent research shows that most pregnancy-related deaths occur in the year after a baby is born. The discovery is changing how doctors care for new mothers.
Source: NYT Health - May 28, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Roni Caryn Rabin Tags: your-feed-science Pregnancy and Childbirth Maternal Mortality Black People Heart Suicides and Suicide Attempts Women and Girls Babies and Infants Anxiety and Stress Diabetes Research Depression (Mental) Hypertension Stroke Deat Source Type: news
How Family and Friends Helped Get Me Through the Pandemic
As Covid raged, many Americans hunkered down with family members and relied on friends — and some came away with deepened relationships. Here are a few of their stories.
Source: NYT Health - September 12, 2022 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Joshua Needelman Tags: Friendship Families and Family Life Quarantine (Life and Culture) Coronavirus (2019-nCoV) Single Persons Pregnancy and Childbirth Stroke thankyou2022 Source Type: news
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
The Truth About Fasting and Type 2 Diabetes
Most fad diets don’t live up to the hype, let alone serious scientific scrutiny. But intermittent fasting seems to be an exception. These plans involve going without caloric foods or drinks for an extended period of time—anywhere from 16 hours to several days—and they have become increasingly popular. Research has also found them to be effective for weight loss.
Doctors often advise people with Type 2 diabetes to lose weight, which can have beneficial effects on blood glucose and insulin sensitivity, as well as on the progression of the disease. For this and other reasons, experts are actively looking at ...
Source: TIME: Health - June 16, 2022 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Markham Heid Tags: Uncategorized Diet & Nutrition freelance healthscienceclimate Source Type: news
Why Acupuncture Is Going Mainstream in Medicine
When the opioid addiction crisis began to surge in the U.S. about a decade ago, Dr. Medhat Mikhael spent a lot of time talking to his patients about other ways to heal pain besides opioids, from other types of medications to alternative treatments.
As a pain management specialist at MemorialCare Orange Coast Medical Center in Fountain Valley, Calif., he didn’t anticipate leaving behind the short-term use of opioids altogether, since they work so well for post-surgical pain. But he wanted to recommend a remedy that was safer and still effective.
That turned out to be acupuncture.
“Like any treatment, acupuncture...
Source: TIME: Health - April 29, 2022 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Elizabeth Millard Tags: Uncategorized healthscienceclimate medicine Source Type: news
What the Science Says About the Health Benefits of Vitamins and Supplements
From multivitamins and melatonin to fiber and fish oil, Americans who are trying to boost their health and immunity have a plethora of supplements to choose from. An estimated 58% of U.S. adults ages 20 and over take dietary supplements, according to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, and the supplement industry is valued at more than $30 billion a year. Supplement use has been growing rapidly over the past few decades along with the wellness industry.
“The popular belief is that a supplement is going to be helpful for promoting health,” says Fang Fang Zhang, a professor at Tufts University&rs...
Source: TIME: Health - April 28, 2022 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Sandeep Ravindran Tags: Uncategorized Diet & Nutrition healthscienceclimate Source Type: news
Bringing WISDOM to Breast Cancer Care
Dr. Laura Esserman answers the door of her bright yellow Victorian home in San Francisco’s Ashbury neighborhood with a phone at her ear. She’s wrapping up one of several meetings that day with her research team at University of California, San Francisco, where she heads the Carol Franc Buck Breast Care Center. She motions me in and reseats herself at a makeshift home office desk in her living room, sandwiched between a grand piano and set of enormous windows overlooking her front yard’s flower garden. It’s her remote base of operations when she’s not seeing patients or operating at the hospita...
Source: TIME: Health - October 22, 2021 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Alice Park Tags: Uncategorized Source Type: news
For HIV/AIDS Survivors, COVID-19 Reawakened Old Trauma —And Renewed Calls for Change
Forty years ago this month, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report noted a rare lung infection among five otherwise healthy gay men in Los Angeles, Calif. Though they didn’t know it at the time, the scientists had written about what would turn out to be one of the historical moments that launched the Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome (AIDS) epidemic.
Since then, HIV/AIDS has killed an estimated 35 million people, including 534,000 people in the U.S. from 1990 to 2018 alone, according to UNAIDS, making it one of the deadliest epidemics in modern history. Over...
Source: TIME: Health - June 17, 2021 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Tara Law Tags: Uncategorized COVID-19 Source Type: news
Study: High blood pressure in mothers during pregnancy raises stroke risk in children
Children with mothers who exhibited high blood pressure during pregnancy show a higher incidence of stroke and heart disease according to a study scheduled for presentation at an online conference this week.
Source: Health News - UPI.com - June 1, 2021 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
Black Women at Higher Heart Risk During Pregnancy
Even when researchers compared Black women of relatively high incomes with low-income white women, Black women still had higher risks of heart attack, stroke and blood clots.
Source: WebMD Health - December 16, 2020 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
Diabetes in Pregnancy Tied to Heart Risks in Young Adult Children
People whose mothers had diabetes were at higher risk of heart attacks, stroke, high blood pressure and diabetes before age 35.
Source: NYT Health - September 29, 2020 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Nicholas Bakalar Tags: Diabetes Heart Pregnancy and Childbirth Source Type: news
CDC Head Estimates U.S. Coronavirus Cases Might be 10 Times Higher Than Data Show
In a press briefing on June 25, Dr. Robert Redfield, director of the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), said that the current official count of COVID-19 cases in the U.S. may actually be a drastic underestimate.
Redfield said the new, much-higher estimate, is based on growing data from antibody testing, which picks up the presence of immune cells that react to SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19. People will test positive for antibodies to the virus if they have been infected—whether or not they ever got sick or even developed symptoms.
Previously, testing was focused only on those with sym...
Source: TIME: Health - June 25, 2020 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Alice Park Tags: Uncategorized COVID-19 Source Type: news
