What's new in midwifery - 15th April 2024
Selected new (or newish) items of interest. I am trying with this one to use DOIs as the link, please consult your library service, if you have access to one, if you have trouble accessing full text.In the news, Guardian analysis of NHS figures shows black women in England are more likely to have serious birth complications, Some systematic reviews and researchEffectiveness of care bundles in preventing postpartum haemorrhage, a systematic review, Socio-economic disadvantage and utilisation of labour epidural analgesia, a study carried out in Scotland, A systematic review of maternal and neo...
Source: Browsing - April 15, 2024 Category: Databases & Libraries Tags: midwifery Source Type: blogs
Fight Aging! Newsletter, February 26th 2024
In conclusion, mTORC1 signaling contributes to the ISC fate decision, enabling regional control of intestinal cell differentiation in response to nutrition.
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Reviewing the Development of Senotherapeutics to Treat Aging
https://www.fightaging.org/archives/2024/02/reviewing-the-development-of-senotherapeutics-to-treat-aging/
Senescent cells accumulate with age and contribute meaningfully to chronic inflammation and degenerative aging. Destroying these cells produces rapid and sizable reversal of age-related diseases in mice, demonstrating that the presence of senescence cells ...
Source: Fight Aging! - February 25, 2024 Category: Research Authors: Reason Tags: Newsletters Source Type: blogs
Attempting to Determine Harmful versus Adaptive Changes Using Epigenetic Clock Techniques
The largest of the present challenges facing the use of epigenetic clocks to measure biological age is that there is no established causal connection between what the clock measures, meaning the methylation status of specific CpG sites on the genome, and specific aspects of the burden of age-related damage and dysfunction; e.g. which changes are due to chronic inflammation, which due to mitochondrial dysfunction, etc. Thus the results obtained from an epigenetic clock assay, the raw methylation data or the resulting epigenetic age, are not actionable. There is nothing one can do with that information to guide health practi...
Source: Fight Aging! - February 22, 2024 Category: Research Authors: Reason Tags: Medicine, Biotech, Research Source Type: blogs
Trial By Error: Finally, Our Letter on Inflated Claims of FND Prevalence Is Published
By David Tuller, DrPH For more than a year, I have been criticizing experts in the field of functional neurological disorder for misrepresenting the findings of a seminal study, in effect tripling the reported prevalence rate of the condition. These untrue claims about the Scottish Neurological Symptoms Study (SNSS)—specifically, that the prevalence of FND among … Trial By Error: Finally, Our Letter on Inflated Claims of FND Prevalence Is Published Read More » (Source: virology blog)
Source: virology blog - February 9, 2024 Category: Virology Authors: David Tuller Tags: Uncategorized conversion disorder FND FND prevalence Source Type: blogs
Six species of deer
The UK has six species of deer living wild.
Red Deer, Cervus elaphus – true native species found in Scotland, the Lake District, and on Exmoor, as well as Northern Ireland, much larger than all other deer, and indeed any other British mammal. Distinctive rusty, red-brown colour in summer. Short tail and pale rump patch.
Red Deer, English Lake District, very old, low-light, scanned film photo
Roe Deer, Capreolus capreolus – true native species present across the whole of England, Scotland, and Wales. Rusty red coat in summer, grey-ish in winter. Prominent white rump and no tail. Females have a small
tush or tuft...
Source: David Bradley Sciencebase - Songs, Snaps, Science - January 8, 2024 Category: Science Authors: David Bradley Tags: Vertebrates Source Type: blogs
What's new in midwifery - 4th January 2024 (Happy New Year!)
Some things that might be useful to know aboutPerinatal bereavementSANDS Listening Project, learning from the experiences of Black and Asian bereaved parents (PDF)Infant feedingBreastfeeding and once-daily small-volume formula supplementation to prevent infant growth impairment, (open access research article)Perinatal mental healthPerinatal mental health conditions, SIGN (Scottish Intercollegiate Guideline Network) Guideline 169 DeliveryPerinatal morbidity among women with a previous caesarean delivery (PRISMA trial): a cluster-randomised trial, link to PubMed record (subscription needed to read the article...
Source: Browsing - January 4, 2024 Category: Databases & Libraries Tags: midwifery Source Type: blogs
My natural highlights of 2023
A few natural highlights from another year of trying to get a perfect wildlife snap! You can find the photos I took of these highlights littered around the Sciencebase website, in my Imaging Storm galleries, on my Instagram and Mastodon.
We started the year on the North Norfolk coast as usual, with Pink-footed Geese etc at Wells, and Shorelarks, Snow Buntings, and a White-tailed Eagle at Holkham, and various other sightings of avian life elsewhere on our walks.
White-tailed Eagle
Soon after we got home there was an alert for a relative rarity and so I saw a couple of Smew at Meadowlane Pits, St Ives. Later that month, Mrs...
Source: David Bradley Sciencebase - Songs, Snaps, Science - December 31, 2023 Category: Science Authors: David Bradley Tags: Birds Lepidoptera Source Type: blogs
From Xenobots to Anthrobots
By KIM BELLARD
There were many things I could have written bout this week – e.g., in A.I., in quantum computing, even “transparent wood” — but when I saw some news about biological robots, I knew I had my topic.
The news comes from researchers at Tufts University and Harvard’s Wyss Institute. Their paper appeared in Advanced Science, introducing “a spheroid-shaped multicellular biological robot (biobot) platform” that they fondly dubbed “Anthrobots.” Importantly, the Anthrobots are made from human cells.
Let’s back up. In 2020, senior researcher Michael Levin, Ph.D., who holds positions at ...
Source: The Health Care Blog - December 13, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: matthew holt Tags: Health Tech Biological Robots Kim Bellard Source Type: blogs
Twitching and dipping a Waxwing
Word on the birding street is that this winter is going to be bright for lovers of one of our winter visitors – the Waxwing, Bombycilla garrulus. This bird is more formally known as the Bohemian Waxwing as opposed to the American bird, the Cedar Waxwing, B. cedrorum. There were quite a few sightings early on in Scotland as these birds that spend the summer much further north than that began to head south.
Waxwing, photographed in Newcastle
Sightings in England have been on the rise as of late November, early December 2023. The nearest relatively large flock for me is in Norwich. Too far for me to make that trip just ...
Source: David Bradley Sciencebase - Songs, Snaps, Science - December 12, 2023 Category: Science Authors: David Bradley Tags: Birds Source Type: blogs
Twitching and dipping out a Waxwing
Word on the birding street is that this winter is going to be bright for lovers of one of our winter visitors – the Waxwing, Bombycilla garrulus. This bird is more formally known as the Bohemian Waxwing as opposed to the American bird, the Cedar Waxwing, B. cedrorum. There were quite a few sightings early on in Scotland as these birds that spend the summer much further north than that began to head south.
Waxwing, photographed in Newcastle
Sightings in England have been on the rise as of late November, early December 2023. The nearest relatively large flock for me is in Norwich. Too far for me to make that trip just ...
Source: David Bradley Sciencebase - Songs, Snaps, Science - December 12, 2023 Category: Science Authors: David Bradley Tags: Birds Source Type: blogs
Knee osteoarthritis and Pavarotta
Well, earlier this week we had to say goodbye to our eldest cat, Pavarotta. She was 19 years old.
Here, in brief, is what happened: last Monday, November 27, I heard a scary, very loud howl coming from the dining room, where the kitties have their water fountain. I got there in time to see Pavarotta fall on the floor and begin scrambling about, trying to get up. A few of our other cats came running and sat around her…I think they wanted to help. After hearing my reassuring voice (but I was freaking out, truth be told), she finally lay down and rested for about a half hour, then got up and seemed almost normal. She ev...
Source: Margaret's Corner - December 1, 2023 Category: Cancer & Oncology Authors: Margaret Tags: Blogroll death of a cat gonoartrosi knee osteoarthritis Source Type: blogs
What's new in midwifery - other things - 17th November 2023
Some other new (ish) items, that don ' t fit one of the previous posts...RCOG Green top guideline on recurrent miscarriageRCM report on the state of maternity services Scotland RCM Engaging dads pocket guide Three news stories:Why is pre eclampsia still causing deaths Death rate of black babies rising - report about National Child Mortality Database, Home help for 8 days after giving birth, the Dutch kraamzorg (= " maternity care " ) scheme. This page from Amsterdam Mamas, in English, tells you more about the scheme. Infant feeding: WHO guideline for complementary feeding of infants and y...
Source: Browsing - November 17, 2023 Category: Databases & Libraries Tags: midwifery Source Type: blogs
Wow … Scotland!
Stefano and I spent a bit more than three weeks in Scotland in August, one of our longest holidays ever. What a fabulous trip…
We landed in Edinburgh on August 4th, the day The Royal Edinburgh Military Tattoo started. It was spectacular. My photo (left) doesn’t do it justice. Even though I’d watched a few videos of the Tattoo on YouTube before leaving for Scotland, I had no idea it would be so engaging…so exciting, even. We thoroughly enjoyed it, as clearly did the other spectators. Definitely one of the best times of my life!
Ring of Brodgar, a huge ceremonial site dating to the 3rd millennium BC
After th...
Source: Margaret's Corner - September 11, 2023 Category: Cancer & Oncology Authors: Margaret Tags: Blogroll Crathes Castle Scotland Tolquhon Castle Source Type: blogs
Finally home!
Well, we (and our 8 cats!) actually moved back home a few weeks ago, but I have been so busy that my head has been spinning. Plus, big news: I have a cataract in my left eye, so I can’t stay at the computer for very long. Luckily, my normal routine hasn’t been affected, and I can still drive, but I will have to get the cataract removed in the autumn, for sure. No biggie (says the gal who had hip replacement surgery, hehe…btw, my new hip’s doing great!). It will get done…but first, we’re going on vacation! In about ten days or so…can’t wait.
Funny how time just flies by, as I ...
Source: Margaret's Corner - July 23, 2023 Category: Cancer & Oncology Authors: Margaret Tags: Blogroll Source Type: blogs
Consciously Exploring Your Relationship with Drugs
Humanity has a complex, long-term relationship with a wide variety of drugs. In this article let’s delve into your personal relationship with drugs, how you frame them, and how you might upgrade these relationships to be more conscious and aligned with your path of self-development. Let’s include common drug sources like coffee, tea, and chocolate too, so this will be very inclusive.
My purpose here isn’t to encourage or discourage you from using any particular substances but rather to invite you to take a more conscious and honest look at your current frames, attitudes, biases, and behaviors, and dete...
Source: Steve Pavlina's Personal Development Blog - July 21, 2023 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Steve Pavlina Tags: Creating Reality Emotions Health Lifestyle Relationships Values Source Type: blogs
