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☆ A Blood Test Predicts Pre-eclampsia in Pregnant Women
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-03 | by ( Roni Caryn Rabin | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

To what extent the test will improve outcomes and save lives is not clear, however, as there is no effective treatment for pre-eclampsia, which usually eases after birth. “We don’t have a therapy that reverses or cures pre-eclampsia other than delivery of the baby, which is more like a last resort,” Dr. Woelkers said. The new blood test, made by Thermo Fisher Scientific, has been available in Europe for several years. It is intended for pregnant women who are hospitalized for a blood pressure disorder in the 23rd to 35th weeks of gestation. “A lot of women will have edema and headaches.” (Edema means swelling.)

Persons: “, Woelkers, ”, Sarosh Rana Organizations: Fisher, University of Chicago Locations: Europe

☆ Wildfire Smoke Is Damaging Our Children’s Lungs - The New York Times
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-02 | by ( Alexander Rabin | Lisa Patel | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

When smoke from Canadian wildfires was descending upon parts of the Midwest and Eastern United States in early June, children and parents gathered in the courtyard of Burns Park Elementary in Ann Arbor, Mich., for a picnic celebrating the last week of school. Shannon Hautamaki was loath to cancel end-of-school activities for her 5-year-old son, Ian. But Ian has severe asthma and had been to the emergency room five times over the last two years, and she anticipated a flare-up from the smoke. As physicians who specialize in respiratory health and children, our first thought last week as wildfire smoke again engulfed parts of the United States was of little ones Ian’s age and younger because their developing lungs are particularly vulnerable to smoke inhalation. This new recurring threat of terrible air quality from wildfire smoke is one big reason we believe that for a child born today, climate change may be the single greatest determinant of health over the course of their lives.

Persons: Shannon Hautamaki, loath, Ian Organizations: Midwest, Eastern Locations: Eastern United States, Ann Arbor, Mich, United States

☆ Why Some Americans Buy Guns
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-23 | by ( Roni Caryn Rabin | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: 1 min

In 2020, while many communities were under Covid lockdowns, protesters were flooding the streets and economic uncertainty and social isolation were deepening, Americans went on a shopping spree. Some 22 million guns were sold that year, 64 percent more than in 2019. The death count from guns, including suicides, rose to 45,222 in 2020 from 39,702 in 2019. The number of lives lost to guns rose again in 2021, to 48,830. After quashing research into gun violence for 25 years, Congress began funneling millions of dollars to federal agencies in 2021 to gather data.

Persons: Covid lockdowns Organizations: Shooting Sports Foundation

☆ Complications After Delivery: What Women Need to Know
▼ + stars: | 2023-05-28 | by ( Roni Caryn Rabin | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

After a woman gives birth, the baby’s well-being usually becomes the focus of family attention, and the mother’s health often recedes as a priority. But new research has highlighted the frequency with which serious pregnancy-related medical complications emerge after childbirth — often well after the mother is discharged from the hospital. When are postpartum complications most likely to occur? The first six weeks after delivery are the most dangerous; women and their partners or support teams should be particularly vigilant during the first week. But complications related to pregnancy can emerge up to a year after childbearing.

☆ Maternity’s Most Dangerous Time: After New Mothers Come Home
▼ + stars: | 2023-05-28 | by ( Roni Caryn Rabin | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

Sherri Willis-Prater’s baby boy was 2 months old, and she was about to return to her job at a school cafeteria in Chicago. But as she walked up the short flight of stairs to her kitchen one evening, she nearly collapsed, gasping for breath. At the hospital, Ms. Willis-Prater, who was 42 at the time, was connected to a ventilator that pumped air into her lungs. After giving birth, Ms. Willis-Prater thought “I made it across the finish line,” she recalled in an interview. “I don’t have to worry about anything anymore.”Most people think of labor and birth as the most dangerous part of pregnancy.

☆ New Mammogram Advice: What to Know
▼ + stars: | 2023-05-09 | by ( Roni Caryn Rabin | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

The U.S. Preventive Services Task Force, a panel of experts that issues guidelines about preventive care, has recommended all women start routine breast cancer screening at 40, instead of at 50, the previous recommendation. The panel continues to advise spacing the screenings at two-year intervals, although some other medical organizations endorse annual mammograms. The advice applies to all “cisgender women and other people assigned female at birth” who are at average risk for breast cancer and do not have any troubling symptoms that might indicate breast cancer. This group includes women with dense breast tissue and a family history of breast cancer. The recommendation does not apply to anyone who has already had breast cancer, has genetic mutations that increase breast cancer risk, has received high-dose radiation to the chest, or has had breast lesions identified in previous biopsies.

☆ When Should Women Get Regular Mammograms? At 40, U.S. Panel Now Says.
▼ + stars: | 2023-05-09 | by ( Roni Caryn Rabin | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

But there have been troubling trends in breast cancer in recent years. They include an apparent increase in the number of cancers diagnosed in women under 50 and a failure to narrow the survival gap for younger Black women, who die of breast cancer at twice the rate of white women of the same age. The panel has said there is insufficient evidence to make recommendations one way or the other for women who were 75 and older. had for the first time commissioned studies of breast cancer specifically among Black women, as well as for all women, and needed more research into the factors driving the racial disparity. The task force also is calling for a clinical trial to compare the effectiveness of annual and biennial screening among Black women.

☆ Covid Remained a Leading Cause of Death Among Americans in 2022
▼ + stars: | 2023-05-04 | by ( Roni Caryn Rabin | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +2 min

But the report’s authors noted that even now, Covid is killing Americans in large numbers. By contrast, Asian Americans and children ages 5 to 14 had the lowest death rates. Black Americans and Native American or Alaska Native people had the highest age-adjusted death rates from all causes. Death rates were lowest for multiracial and Asian individuals. Compared with the early days of the pandemic, Covid was less likely to be lethal last year.

☆ My grandfather hid the emotional toll of World War II from his family for decades
▼ + stars: | 2023-05-02 | by ( Chloe Melas | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +13 min

CNN —For decades after returning home from World War II, my grandfather did not talk about his wartime experiences. Frank Murphy, the grandfather of CNN's Chloe Melas, after he was captured and taken a prisoner of war by the Nazis in 1943. Everyone could see the physical toll of war on his body, but we didn’t know about his invisible wounds. After World War I, it was “shell shock”; post-World War II it was known as “combat fatigue,” and after Vietnam it was called “post-Vietnam syndrome.” In 1980, the American Psychiatric Association officially recognized it as post-traumatic stress disorder, or PTSD. “When your grandfather and my grandfather served in World War II, they didn’t talk about it,” Paul Rieckhoff, founder and CEO of Iraq and Afghanistan Veterans of America, told me.

☆ Researchers Identify Possible New Risk for Breast Cancer
▼ + stars: | 2023-04-28 | by ( Roni Caryn Rabin | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +2 min

Now, a woman’s risk of developing breast cancer could “be updated every time she gets a new mammogram.”Background: Breast Density MattersBreast density is now an acknowledged risk factor for breast cancer, albeit one of many. Dozens of states have started requiring mammography centers to notify women if they have dense breast tissue. In March, the Food and Drug Administration recommended that providers tell women about their breast density. But this is the first study to measure changes in density over time and to report a link to breast cancer. One next step may to be examine breast density over time in women taking medication to prevent breast cancer to see if the density decreases, Dr. Knudsen suggested.

☆ A Century-Old Vaccine Fails to Protect Against Covid
▼ + stars: | 2023-04-26 | by ( Roni Caryn Rabin | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

An old tuberculosis vaccine known to bolster the immune system did not prevent Covid infections among health care workers, scientists reported on Thursday. But the trial was shorter and smaller than originally designed, and the investigators said that the results did not rule out other potential benefits associated with the vaccine, known as B.C.G. The study, published in The New England Journal of Medicine, was the largest clinical trial of the vaccine’s potential to protect against Covid infections. The trial of health care workers began in March 2020, during the early days of the pandemic, when no effective treatments for Covid were available and a new vaccine against the highly infectious disease seemed to be a remote fantasy. The hope was that the old vaccine might be repurposed to save lives.

☆ Two Israels face off as justice overhaul deepens the divide
▼ + stars: | 2023-03-07 | by ( Maayan Lubell | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +9 min

For them, weakening the Supreme Court would undermine the bedrock of Israel's democracy and could set the country on the path to becoming a corrupt and religiously coercive state. In 2020, the Supreme Court struck down a law that had retroactively legalised homes built by settlers on land owned by Palestinians, like Amona. Settlers driven by ideology see themselves as pioneers redeeming land that was promised by God and many feel betrayed by Supreme Court rulings against settlements. The Supreme Court did not respond to a request for comment. "The Supreme Court has challenged parliament time and again, playing politics, not nicely."

☆ The Palestinian president and his unfulfilled quest for a state
▼ + stars: | 2023-01-31 | by ( ) www.reuters.com time to read: +5 min

He was an early member of Fatah, the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) faction that dominated Palestinian politics for decades. He became leader of both when Arafat died in 2004, and a year later was elected president of the Palestinian Authority, which exercises limited sovereignty in the West Bank. Behind them were U.S. President Bill Clinton, Arafat and Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin, applauding warmly. When the Palestinian leadership returned from exile to Gaza after the Oslo Accords Abbas was upbeat, promising: "I will live in Palestine." Hamas routed Fatah in a civil war in Gaza, leaving Abbas with control of Palestinian-administered areas in the West Bank but there have been no Palestinian elections since.

☆ 'I've grown up,' far-rightist tells Israelis worried about his rise
▼ + stars: | 2022-11-07 | by ( Dan Williams | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +3 min

[1/2] Jewish Power party leader Itamar Ben-Gvir speaks following the announcement of exit polls in Israel's general election, at his party headquarters in Jerusalem November 2, 2022. Having won an election last week, conservative former prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu's most powerful likely coalition ally is Religious Zionism, a party led by ultranationalist Jewish settlers in the occupied West Bank. "I've grown up, I've moderated and I've come to understand that life is more complicated," Ben-Gvir, 46, said in a front-page article in the biggest-circulation Israel Hayom newspaper. He said security services had "used irresponsible manipulation, which to this day has not been fully exposed, to encourage the murderer". Religious Zionism, like other Israeli parties on the right, opposes Palestinian statehood.

☆ Israel: Atacarea cu cruzime a unui bărbat, presupus arab, difuzată în direct la televiziune
▼ + stars: | 2021-05-13 | by ( Publika.Md - Aici Sunt Știrile | ) www.publika.md time to read: +2 min

Imaginile, dificil de privit, arată un bărbat, considerat arab de atacatori, scos cu forţa dintr-o maşină şi apoi bătut cu cruzime de o mulţime de câteva zeci de persoane până când şi-a pierdut conştienţa.Incidentul, a cărui filmare a fost transmisă în direct de postul Kan, a avut loc pe promenada de la malul mării din Bat Yam, un oraş situat la sud de Tel Aviv.Poliţia şi serviciile de urgenţă au sosit după 15 minute, timp în care victima zăcea în mijlocul străzii.Mulţimea a justificat actul susţinând că bărbatul este un arab care a încercat să intre în mulţimea protestarilor de extremă dreapta. Filmarea difuzată de Kan sugera mai degrabă un şofer care încerca să evite demonstraţia.Victima "este grav rănită, dar (în stare) stabilă", a anunţat într-un comunicat spitalul Ichilov din Tel Aviv, fără a-i dezvălui identitatea.Deputatul de extremă dreapta Bezalel Smotrich, liderul partidului Sionism Religios, s-a declarat ruşinat de acest exemplu de "cruzime atroce". "Fraţi evrei, opriţi-vă! Potrivit acesteia, un evreu a fost grav rănit de pietre în Acre. "Protestatarii din Lod şi Acre nu îi reprezintă pe arabii israelieni, protestatarii din Bat Yam (...) nu îi reprezintă pe evreii israelieni, violenţa nu ne va dicta viaţa", a declarat liderul opoziţiei Yair Lapid, care încearcă să formeze o coaliţie de uniune naţională după eşecul premierului Benjamin Netanyahu de a forma o coaliţie de dreapta.La rândul său, Netanyahu a declarat că "ceea ce se întâmplă în ultimele zile în oraşele Israelului este insuportabil ... nimic nu justifică atacarea arabilor de către evrei şi nimic nu justifică atacarea evreilor de către arabi".

Persons: Kan, !, Yitzhak Yosef, israelieni.Poliţia, Protestatarii, Benjamin Netanyahu, Netanyahu Locations: Bat Yam, Tel, Ichilov, Tel Aviv, Israelului, Lod, Acre, Akko ), Haifa

☆ Sute de lideri religioși cer interzicerea terapiei de conversie pentru homosexuali
▼ + stars: | 2020-12-16 | by ( Publika.Md - Aici Sunt Știrile | ) www.publika.md time to read: +1 min

Peste 370 de lideri religioși din întreaga lume cer interzicerea terapiei de conversie pentru persoanele gay (încercarea de a schimba orientarea sexuală sau identitatea de gen a unei persoane). Declarația care solicită suprimarea acestei practici va fi lansată miercuri și este semnată de reprezentați ai tuturor marilor credințe ale lumii, transmite digi24. Printre semnatari se află arhiepiscopul sud-african Desmond Tutu, fostul șef-rabin al Irlandei, David Rosen, precum și fostul președinte al Irlandei, Mary McAleese. Guvernul nu a oferit încă detalii despre interdicția practicii de conversie, încă a susținut că se fac cercetări pentru a stabili care este planul ce trebuie urmat. Poate varia de la tratamentul cu șoc electric la învățături religioase sau terapie, acestea fiind menite să schimbe identitatea sexuală a unei persoane.

Persons: african Desmond, David Rosen, Mary McAleese, Boris Johnson Locations: african, Irlandei, Elveția, Australia, Canada, SUA

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