There ’s Now an At-Home Menopause Test, But Does Anyone Need It?
COVID-19 changed many things about medicine, not the least of which is how we think about do-it-yourself testing. Before the pandemic, health experts weren’t convinced people would accept, much less embrace, the utility of testing themselves at home for SARS-CoV-2. Pregnancy tests pretty much dominated the at-home testing landscape, although a few recent additions, for conditions like HIV and Alzheimer‘s, have appeared on pharmacy shelves, albeit with varying levels of confidence from the medical community. [time-brightcove not-tgx=”true”] Now Clearblue, the company that makes pregnancy and fert...
Source: TIME: Health - August 31, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Alice Park Tags: Uncategorized healthscienceclimate Source Type: news

South Africa: Breastfeeding While Hungry - Is Enough Being Done to Support Mothers in the Free State?
[spotlight] Earlier this month, from 1 to 7 August, the world celebrated breastfeeding week under the theme - "Enabling breastfeeding: making a difference for working parents". This global campaign aims to create support and awareness about the benefits of breastfeeding among women who are physically able to do so. Exclusive breastfeeding for babies within the first six months of life is encouraged - also in South Africa - because breast milk contains all the nutrition that a baby needs. To improve infant nutrition
Source: AllAfrica News: Pregnancy and Childbirth - August 31, 2023 Category: OBGYN Tags: Children and Youth Health and Medicine Nutrition Pregnancy and Childbirth South Africa Southern Africa Sustainable Development Women and Gender Source Type: news

The Danger of ‘Invisible’ Biolabs Across the U.S.
Recently, many California residents were disturbed to learn that a small, privately-operated bio lab in the Central Valley town of Reedley was shut down by Fresno County Department of Public Health officials after they found that it had been improperly managing almost 1,000 laboratory mice and samples of infectious diseases including COVID-19, rubella, malaria, dengue, chlamydia, hepatitis, and HIV. The lab was registered to a company called Prestige Biotech that sold a variety of medical testing kits, including for pregnancy and COVID-19, and it was likely storing disease samples for the purpose of developing and validati...
Source: TIME: Health - August 31, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Dan Greene, Jassi Pannu and Allison Berke Tags: Uncategorized Science Source Type: news

The pregnancy continuum in domestic sex trafficking in the United States: examining the unspoken gynecological, reproductive, and procreative issues of victims and survivors - Lederer LJ, Flores T, Chandler MKJ.
Crucial to the fight against sex trafficking(1) is understanding the experiences of victims and survivors. Survivor surveys have illuminated key areas to address, but a clear gap in the research is in the reproductive, gynecological, and procreative health...
Source: SafetyLit - August 31, 2023 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Tags: Economics of Injury and Safety, PTSD, Injury Outcomes Source Type: news

Economic hardship predicts intimate partner violence victimization during pregnancy - Cochran KA, Kashy DA, Bogat GA, Levendosky AA, Lonstein JS, Nuttall AK, Muzik M.
OBJECTIVE: Intimate partner violence (IPV) during pregnancy is associated with negative physical and mental health consequences for both mothers and infants. Economic hardship is often exacerbated during pregnancy and is associated with increased rates of ...
Source: SafetyLit - August 31, 2023 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Tags: Age: Adolescents Source Type: news

Procter & Gamble launches Clearblue menopause indicator test
Procter& Gamble on Aug. 29 announced what one medical expert described as a "game-changing" product for women in an underserved market segment. Clearblue, a P&G (NYSE: PG) subsidiary and world ’s best-selling brand of home pregnancy and fertility tests, launched the Clearblue Menopause Stage Indicator. It’s the only product that tests hormone levels in combination with a woman’s age and cycle history to show a likely menopause stage on a mobile app, according to Clearblue Brand Dire ctor Leah…
Source: bizjournals.com Health Care:Biotechnology headlines - August 31, 2023 Category: Biotechnology Authors: Brian Planalp Source Type: news

The Stupid Party vs. the Evil Party
An overwhelming majority of the public, more than 60%, doesn’t want either Joe Biden or Donald Trump to run for president. Yet the two major political parties are tumbling toward that unwanted choice. The late Washington economist Herb Stein articulated what came to be known as Stein’s law: “If…#donaldtrump #herbstein #stein
Source: Reuters: Health - August 30, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news

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

These Are the Shots You Should Get This Fall and Winter
It used to be relatively easy and straightforward to navigate the fall and winter respiratory disease season in the U.S.—get a flu shot. Then came COVID-19, and another vaccine was added to the mix. Now, for the first time, there will be a third shot for some groups: a vaccine for respiratory syncytial virus (RSV), which causes respiratory disease that can be especially dangerous for infants and older people. [time-brightcove not-tgx=”true”] Here’s what experts say about who should be receiving which shots, and when. Flu (the easy one) The advice here is straightforward and the same as ...
Source: TIME: Health - August 30, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Alice Park Tags: Uncategorized COVID-19 healthscienceclimate Source Type: news

Timed intercourse for couples trying to conceive
When it comes to starting a family, timing is everythingA new Cochrane review of methods to increase chances of successful conception suggests that timed intercourse using urine ovulation tests probably improves live birth and pregnancy rates in women under 40 who had been trying to conceive for less than 12 months, compared to intercourse without ovulation prediction.The Cochrane review, conducted jointly with researchers fromUniversity of Oxford, theRoyal Berkshire Hospital in Reading, and thePrincess Anne Hospital in Southampton, included seven randomised controlled trials involving 2,464 women or couples who had been t...
Source: Cochrane News and Events - August 30, 2023 Category: Information Technology Authors: Muriah Umoquit Source Type: news

Nigeria: Saving Lives - Nigeria's First Breast Milk Bank Gives Babies a Fighting Chance
[Nigeria Health Watch] Chibuike Alagboso and Onyinye Oranezi (Lead Writer -- When Kehinde (not real name) set out on the nearly 130km journey from Ibadan to Lagos, he had a clear goal in mind: to get the conviction he required to receive breast milk donated through a breast milk bank. His wife was having challenges with her milk flow at the time and had made the journey previously to the breast milk bank. Their baby had started showing signs of being underweight and constipated, and Kehinde had been reluctant to use the breast milk bank. However, when their baby was readmitted to
Source: AllAfrica News: Pregnancy and Childbirth - August 30, 2023 Category: OBGYN Tags: Health and Medicine Nigeria Nutrition Pregnancy and Childbirth Sustainable Development West Africa Source Type: news

Tanzania: What Amref's Safe Delivery Campaign Means for Zanzibar
[Daily News] Zanzibar -- ZANZIBAR : ALTHOUGH statistics for maternal and child mortality in Zanzibar are still disturbing, AMREF Africa- Tanzania in collaboration with development partners are optimistic that their ongoing fundraising campaign to collect 1bn/- will make a difference.
Source: AllAfrica News: Pregnancy and Childbirth - August 30, 2023 Category: OBGYN Tags: East Africa Governance Health and Medicine Pregnancy and Childbirth Tanzania Women and Gender Source Type: news

Barriers like racism, distrust may be main cause of health-care disparities for Indigenous women, study says
Compared with non-Indigenous women across Canada, Indigenous women who live outside reserves face several systemic barriers for accessing health care, particularly during pregnancy, a new study has found.
Source: CBC | Health - August 28, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: News/Health Source Type: news

Celebrating 30 years of Cochrane
Cochrane, a global independent network of researchers, professionals, patients, carers, and health enthusiasts is celebrating our 30th anniversary in 2023.In 1987, the year before Archie Cochrane died, he referred to a systematic review of randomized controlled trials of care during pregnancy and childbirth as " a real milestone in the history of randomized trials and in the evaluation of care " , and suggested that other specialties should copy the methods used. His encouragement, and the endorsement of his views by others, led to the opening of the first Cochrane Centre in Oxford, UK in 1992 and the founding of The Cochr...
Source: Cochrane News and Events - August 28, 2023 Category: Information Technology Authors: Muriah Umoquit Source Type: news

Liberia: Scrap Extreme Abortion Section in Public Health Bill
[New Dawn] - Public mounts pressure on Senators
Source: AllAfrica News: Pregnancy and Childbirth - August 28, 2023 Category: OBGYN Tags: Governance Health and Medicine Human Rights Liberia Pregnancy and Childbirth West Africa Women and Gender Source Type: news

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