Nigeria: Babies Not Breastfed Are 14 Times More Likely to Die Before First Birthday - UNICEF
[Vanguard] The United Nations Children Fund, UNICEF, has said infants who are not breastfed are fourteen times more likely to die before their first birthday than those who are exclusively breastfed.
Source: AllAfrica News: Pregnancy and Childbirth - August 10, 2023 Category: OBGYN Tags: Health and Medicine Nigeria Pregnancy and Childbirth West Africa Source Type: news

Nigeria: Exclusive Breastfeeding Can Prevent Breast, Ovarian Cancers, Says NAFDAC DG
[Leadership] The director general of National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control (NAFDAC), Prof Mojisola Adeyeye, has urged nursing mothers to always espouse optimal breastfeeding of their children with a view to lowering the risk of breast and ovarian cancers.
Source: AllAfrica News: Pregnancy and Childbirth - August 10, 2023 Category: OBGYN Tags: Health and Medicine Nigeria Pregnancy and Childbirth West Africa Source Type: news

Nurse Home-Visit Program Shows No Benefit for Prenatal Care Uptake
(MedPage Today) -- Sending registered nurses out on home visits throughout pregnancy failed to move the needle when it came to improving uptake of prenatal care, a randomized trial involving Medicaid patients found. Use of prenatal care services...
Source: MedPage Today Public Health - August 9, 2023 Category: American Health Source Type: news

Pregnancy-Specific Alcohol Policies May Not Work
WEDNESDAY, Aug. 9, 2023 -- Most pregnancy-specific alcohol policies are not associated with decreased odds of infant injuries or morbidities, according to a study published online Aug. 3 in JAMA Network Open. Sarah C.M. Roberts, Dr.P.H., from the...
Source: Drugs.com - Pharma News - August 9, 2023 Category: Pharmaceuticals Source Type: news

Liberia: Don't Legalize Killing
[New Dawn] -Faith and Justice Network rejects legalization of abortion
Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine - August 9, 2023 Category: African Health Tags: Health and Medicine Legal and Judicial Affairs Liberia Pregnancy and Childbirth West Africa Source Type: news

Do we care? Portuguese healthcare professionals' practices and related barriers to addressing intimate partner violence during pregnancy and the postpartum period - Martins AR, Melo C, Pedrosa AA, Rijo D, Canavarro MC.
Introduction Although practice guidelines for universal and routine screening and intervention for intimate partner violence have been available in Portugal for several years, it remains unclear how often and in which circumstances healthcare profession...
Source: SafetyLit - August 9, 2023 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Tags: Age: Adolescents Source Type: news

Na ïve, uninformed and sexually abused: circumstances surrounding adolescent pregnancies in Malawi - Chamdimba E, Kabiru CW, Ushie BA, Munthali A, Thakwalakwa C, Ajayi AI.
BACKGROUND: Pregnancy and childbearing in adolescence could negatively affect girls' health and socio-economic wellbeing across the life course. Previous studies on drivers of adolescent pregnancy in Africa have not fully considered the perspectives of par...
Source: SafetyLit - August 9, 2023 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Tags: Age: Adolescents Source Type: news

Teen charged in fatal stabbing of Brooklyn gay man made homophobic and anti-Black comments before attack, authorities say
The 17-year-old charged with murder as a hate crime in the fatal stabbing of O’Shae Sibley, a Black gay man, is alleged to have taunted Sibley and yelled homophobic slurs before the attack, according to the criminal complaint. He then shut off his phone and shaved his head to evade the law before…#brooklyn #dmitriypopov #josephkenny #ericadams #markpollard #sibley #newjersey #midwood #kenny #popov
Source: Reuters: Health - August 8, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news

Red State Loses Key Cardiologist; Semaglutide Reduces CVD Risk; Pregnancy OK in HCM
(MedPage Today) -- The director of the only pediatric heart transplant program in Louisiana, a married gay man, says he is relocating to New York for a better LGBTQ+ environment. (Advocate) Once-weekly semaglutide 2.4 mg (Wegovy) reduced major...
Source: MedPage Today Cardiovascular - August 8, 2023 Category: Cardiology Source Type: news

Parents Are Almost as Depressed and Anxious as Teens
American teens are having a hard time. From 2008 to 2019, the rate of U.S. high school students reporting chronic feelings of sadness and hopelessness rose 65% from one in five to one in three, according to data from the Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). That was before the pandemic. By the fall of 2021, more than a year into the pandemic, the CDC reported that 42% of high school students, and almost 60% of girls, felt chronic sadness and hopelessness. A staggering quarter of teen girls had made a suicide plan.  [time-brightcove not-tgx=”true”] Social media has been blamed, as well a...
Source: TIME: Health - August 8, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Jenny Anderson Tags: Uncategorized freelance Source Type: news

Nigeria: Newborn Children Exposed to Killer Diseases At Ill-Equipped Kano Primary Healthcare Centre
[Premium Times] The number of unvaccinated children in Kano, Jigawa and Katsina accounts for about 40 per cent of the total unvaccinated children in Nigeria.
Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine - August 8, 2023 Category: African Health Tags: Health and Medicine Nigeria Pregnancy and Childbirth West Africa Source Type: news

East Africa: DR Congo - East African Community Troops Help Woman Deliver
[New Times] Kenyan troops under the East African Community Regional Force (EACRF) on Saturday, August 5, while on patrol in Kibumba, in Nyiragongo Territory, North Kivu Province attended to a woman in labour pains.
Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine - August 8, 2023 Category: African Health Tags: Arms and Military Affairs Conflict, Peace and Security East Africa Health and Medicine Pregnancy and Childbirth Source Type: news

34-year-old Kickstarter CEO credits his success to 2 traits: They ' re an ' essential skill set '
If you ask Everette Taylor how he became CEO of crowdfunding platform Kickstarter, he'll tell you: "I got lucky." The 34-year-old spent a chunk of his teen and young adult years battling homelessness and hustling to make ends meet, he says. He dropped out of Virginia Tech and founded an event…#everettetaylor #virginiatech #kickstarter #bostonuniversity #constancehadley #path #virginia #danielgoleman #warrenbuffettguide
Source: Reuters: Health - August 7, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news

What dermatologists want you to know about preventing and treating melasma
Melasma is a common skin condition that’s likely to occur in women during their reproductive years. It’s characterized by dark blotchy patches, which typically appear on the face, and often appears during pregnancy — 15% to 50% of pregnant women get melasma, according to the Cleveland Clinic.…#clevelandclinic # #vitamincdark #niacinamide #retinolretinol #vitaminc #erumilyas #pennsylvania #tinted #rachelnazarian
Source: Reuters: Health - August 7, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news

Adverse Childhood Experiences Increase Risk for Pregnancy Complications
MONDAY, Aug. 7, 2023 -- Exposure to adverse childhood experiences (ACEs) increases the risk for pregnancy complications and adverse pregnancy outcomes, according to a review published online Aug. 3 in BMJ Open. Abdullah Mamun, Ph.D., from the...
Source: Drugs.com - Pharma News - August 7, 2023 Category: Pharmaceuticals Source Type: news

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