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☆ One in Five Women Feel Mistreated During Maternity Care, C.D.C. Reports
▼ + stars: | 2023-08-22 | by ( Roni Caryn Rabin | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +2 min

Almost half of the women surveyed said they had held back in talking with a maternity care provider about their questions or concerns, a particularly disturbing finding. Background: Maternal mortality rates have soared in the U.S.Maternal mortality rates in the United States are among the highest in the industrialized world. Maternal mortality rates are two to three times higher among these women than among white and Hispanic women. Nevertheless, the findings suggest serious flaws in the care provided to pregnant women and women giving birth. Birthing women deserve respectful health care, which is strongly linked to positive outcomes, C.D.C.

Persons: they’d, Porter Novelli, you’re, ”, Wanda Barfield Locations: U.S, United States

☆ FDA approves Pfizer maternal RSV vaccine for infants
▼ + stars: | 2023-08-21 | by ( Annika Kim Constantino | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +2 min

It's now the second treatment approved by the FDA to prevent RSV in infants and the first vaccine. It uses maternal immunization, which refers to vaccinating pregnant mothers so they can pass protective antibodies to their fetuses. "When you think globally, this vaccine could potentially have a huge public health impact," Gurtman told CNBC. The FDA in mid-July approved an RSV monoclonal antibody from Sanofi and AstraZeneca that is directly administered to infants. The shot would help the U.S. combat the upcoming RSV season as it comes off an unusually severe year.

Persons: It's, Alejandra Gurtman, Gurtman, Dr, Peter Marks Organizations: Drug Administration, Pfizer, FDA, Centers for Disease Control, Prevention, CNBC, Sanofi, AstraZeneca, CDC Locations: U.S

Aug 21 (Reuters) - The U.S. Food and Drug Administration on Monday approved Pfizer's (PFE.N) respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) vaccine for use in women during the middle of the third trimester of pregnancy to protect their babies. An FDA panel of outside experts backed the safety and effectiveness of Pfizer's RSV vaccine for women in their second and third trimesters earlier in May. RSV is a common respiratory virus that usually causes mild, cold-like symptoms but can also lead to serious illness and hospitalization. Infants are at greatest risk for severe illness from RSV. An estimated 58,000 to 80,000 children below the age of five years are hospitalized every year due to RSV infection in the U.S., according to government data.

Persons: Pfizer, Mariam Sunny, Bhanvi, Patrick Wingrove, Caroline Humer, Bill Berkrot Organizations: U.S . Food, Drug Administration, FDA, Pfizer, U.S . Centers for Disease Control, Sanofi, AstraZeneca, GSK, Thomson Locations: U.S, United States, Bengaluru, New York

☆ The Case for Home Births in America
▼ + stars: | 2023-08-19 | by ( Susan Dominus | More About Susan Dominus | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +3 min

BIRTH CONTROL: The Insidious Power of Men Over Motherhood, by Allison YarrowSeventeen years ago, while pregnant with twins, I was hospitalized for pre-eclampsia before undergoing a cesarean delivery days later. After delivery, I was left alone and shivering in a separate room for easily an hour, without anyone to ask when I could hold my newborn children. At the time, I was only grateful we were all healthy; the submission and alienation the process engendered always seemed beside the point. Yarrow systemically makes the case that the dominant methods of childbirth in America are the clumsy evolution of earlier medical practices that were designed to protect the privilege, status and convenience of 20th-century male doctors. Yarrow convincingly recasts this country’s maternal health care system as needlessly dehumanizing, prioritizing expediency and profit over the best interests of a population of women rendered vulnerable.

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☆ Fact check: Biden tells three false personal anecdotes in economic speech
▼ + stars: | 2023-08-16 | by ( Daniel Dale | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +8 min

Washington CNN —President Joe Biden made three false claims about his own past in a Tuesday speech in Milwaukee. But he also peppered in three false personal anecdotes, including two that have previously been debunked, continuing his habit of inaccurate ad-libbing about his biography. In addition, Biden repeated one false and previously debunked political boast. Nonetheless, Biden has been telling a false story about his late friend for more than two years. “And, by the way, my Grandpop Biden, who died very young – he was – died in the hospital I was born in six days before I was there, I mean before I was born,” Biden said.

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☆ Crocodiles were played the sound of human babies crying. The higher the infant's distress level, the more the carnivores would respond.
▼ + stars: | 2023-08-13 | by ( Alia Shoaib | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

Nile crocodiles react to the cries of infants from species like bonobos, chimpanzees, and humans. Researchers played audio recordings of infants crying to the carnivorous crocodiles and discovered they were drawn to those in the most distress. While humans primarily responded to the pitch of the cries, crocodiles responded based on levels of "deterministic chaos, harmonicity, and spectral prominences." Nile crocodiles can grow to about 20 feet long and can weigh up to 1,650 pounds, per National Geographic. According to the publication, Nile crocodiles generally live close to humans, meaning encounters happen relatively often.

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Amazon, the United States' second-largest employer, will now offer fertility and family planning services to employees through a partnership with Maven Clinic. The free offering will be available to more than 1 million eligible Amazon employees spread across 50 countries outside of the U.S. and Canada. The addition of Amazon to the company's partnership portfolio means an increase of about 7% in patients under Maven's care. The continued challenges around reproductive health care in the U.S. highlights why there has been strong corporate interest in partnering with Maven. What's more, a survey by Maven revealed that 71% of companies are considering adding or have added reproductive health benefits in the wake of the decision.

Persons: Maven, Oprah Winfrey, Mindy Kaling, Natalie Portman, Reese Witherspoon, Roe, Wade Organizations: Maven Clinic, Amazon, Maven, OB, CNBC Disruptor, CVS Health Ventures, Intermountain Health's VC, Microsoft, L'Oreal Locations: United States, Canada, America, U.S

☆ Rare walrus calf rescued in Alaska after wandering alone currently under 24/7 cuddle care
▼ + stars: | 2023-08-06 | by ( Sara Smart | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +2 min

CNN —A rare walrus calf is under 24/7 cuddle care after he was found wandering alone in northern Alaska last week. The Pacific walrus calf, estimated to be about a month old, arrived at the Alaska SeaLife Center on August 1 after being spotted on Alaska’s North Slope, about four miles inland from the Beaufort Sea, according to the Alaska SeaLife Center. The walrus is receiving cuddle care after he was found in an unusual spot in Alaska. The calf was moved to a warehouse, where he stayed overnight under constant watch, and then transported by plane to the Alaska SeaLife Center facility. The walrus remains under constant care while he continues to eat well and remains alert, the center said in an update posted to its Facebook page on Saturday.

Persons: walruses Organizations: CNN, Alaska SeaLife Center, Officials, Alaska . Alaska SeaLife Locations: Alaska, Beaufort, Alaska . Alaska

☆ Researchers in Alaska rescued a walrus too young to be away from his mother. Now, his treatment plan includes 24/7 care and cuddles.
▼ + stars: | 2023-08-05 | by ( Katie Hawkinson | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +2 min

An Alaskan wildlife center rescued a one-month-old, 200-pound Pacific walrus calf this week. He has also already accepted a bottle and will likely acclimate well to his new human caretakers, staff reported. The young calf has already accepted a bottle and will likely acclimate well to human care, staff reported. Alaska SeaLife CenterAlaska SeaLife Center staff reported that the calf has already taken a bottle and is expected to acclimate well to his new human companions. The Alaska SeaLife Center did not respond to a request for an update on the calf's condition ahead of publication.

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☆ For the First Time, There’s a Pill for Postpartum Depression
▼ + stars: | 2023-08-04 | by ( Pam Belluck | More About Pam Belluck | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

The Food and Drug Administration on Friday approved the first pill for postpartum depression, a milestone considered likely to increase recognition and treatment of a debilitating condition that afflicts about a half-million women in the United States every year. Clinical trial data show the pill works quickly, beginning to ease depression in as little as three days, significantly faster than general antidepressants, which can take two weeks or longer to have an effect. That — along with the fact that it is taken for just two weeks, not for months — may encourage more patients to accept treatment, maternal mental health experts said. The most significant aspect of the approval may not be the features of the drug, but that it is explicitly designated for postpartum depression. The hope is that it will encourage more women to seek help and prompt more obstetricians and family doctors to screen for symptoms and suggest counseling or treatment.

Organizations: Drug Administration Locations: United States

☆ Who was Henrietta Lacks? The life of the woman whose 'immortal' cells changed modern medicine forever.
▼ + stars: | 2023-08-03 | by ( Yoonji Han | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: 1 min

After her mother died when Lacks was 4 years old, her father sent her and her nine siblings to live with their maternal grandfather in a log cabin in Clover, Virginia. The cabin was once the slave quarters on the plantation that Lacks' white great-grandfather and great-uncle had owned. A tobacco farm in Virginia. Scott J. Ferrell/Congressional Quarterly/Getty ImagesLacks worked as a tobacco farmer starting from an early age, feeding animals, tending the garden, and working in the tobacco fields, according to her family. She attended a designated Black school, but had to drop out to help support the family when she was in the sixth grade.

Persons: Scott J, Ferrell Organizations: Congressional Locations: Clover , Virginia, Virginia

☆ ‘Let’s Call Her Patty’ Review: Unseen Depths of an Uptown Matriarch
▼ + stars: | 2023-08-01 | by ( Naveen Kumar | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +2 min

Patty’s maternal relationships with Cecile and Sammy are the play’s sources of conflict (Patty’s offstage husband, Hal, we’re told, is “fine”). The matriarch is little more than an amalgam of stereotypes; that there is truth to them is hardly a revelation. But the play does little to question or disrupt the preconceived notions it assumes New York audiences will have about “an Upper West Side lady” like Patty. If this is a character study, Patty’s pungent, messy center is largely withheld from view. Unfortunately, Cecile is kept at arm’s length from a story in which she seems to have the most compelling inner life.

Persons: Cecile, Sammy, Hal, we’re, Patty, she’s, “, Perlman, Margot Bordelon, Goldman’s Cecile Locations: York

☆ Scientists say they have induced 'virgin births' in fruit flies for the first time by switching on the right genes
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-29 | by ( Marta Biino | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

A group of researchers was able to successfully engineer "virgin birth" in fruit flies. "I couldn't believe it," Sperling told the Washington Post. A backup for isolated femalesThe experiment was conducted on fruit flies because they are model organisms, or simple non-human species that are usually studied to better understand biology. "Fruit flies are incredibly special because they are basically the first model organism and have been studied for over 100 years," Sperling told the Post. Virgin births could help certain species and act as a "backup" for isolated females, according to The Guardian.

Persons: Alexis Sperling, Sperling, Hannah Maude, Nature Organizations: Service, Privacy, University of Cambridge, Washington Post, Imperial College London, Times, Guardian Locations: Wall, Silicon, parthenogenesis

☆ Kyle Anderson: US-born NBA player will represent China at the basketball World Cup
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-24 | by ( Andrew Mcnicol | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +3 min

CNN —US-born basketball player Kyle Anderson will represent China at next month’s FIBA World Cup after obtaining Chinese nationality, the Chinese Basketball Association (CBA) announced on Monday. Anderson is China’s first naturalized basketball player and his addition to the national team roster is considered a huge coup. Really proud and honored to wear the Team China jersey,” he said. While a first in basketball, China has acquired a handful of elite athletes with and without Chinese roots through naturalization. “When I’m in China, I’m Chinese.

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☆ What causes someone to become a serial killer? Criminology experts explain
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-24 | by ( Alaa Elassar | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +16 min

CNN —For decades, criminologists and true crime documentaries have attempted to understand what causes serial killers to commit the atrocities they do. CNN spoke with three forensic psychologists and serial killer experts to better understand what causes people to become serial killers. Scott Bonn: Not all psychopaths are serial killers, and not all serial killers are psychopaths. In the case (of a serial killer who) is a psychopath, their brain functions differently than a normal human brain. Are all serial killers serial sexual murderers?

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☆ Opinion | How to Reduce the High Rates of Maternal Mortality
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-23 | by ( ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

To the Editor:Re “More Mothers Are Dying, and It’s Preventable,” by Dr. Veronica Gillispie-Bell (Opinion guest essay, July 17):There are other ways to address the high maternal mortality and morbidity rates. Improve abortion access at any gestational age when maternal life is at risk. Educate high-risk women of all ages on long-term, reversible contraception (especially IUDs). Make it easier to credential or re-credential older, retired professionals (physicians, nurse midwives) across state lines to assist with the shortage of medical practitioners. Nutrition or health classes are often part of school curriculums; educate, screen and treat at younger ages for hypertension and other medical conditions.

Persons: Veronica Gillispie

☆ Nearly two years after Texas' six-week abortion ban, more babies are dying
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-20 | by ( Isabelle Chapman | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +8 min

CNN —Texas’ abortion restrictions – some of the strictest in the country – may be fueling a sudden spike in infant mortality as women are forced to carry nonviable pregnancies to term. The increase in deaths could partly be explained by the fact that more babies are being born in Texas. But multiple obstetrician-gynecologists who focus on high-risk pregnancies told CNN that Texas’ strict abortion laws likely contributed to the uptick in infant deaths. Plaintiffs Anna Zargarian, Lauren Miller, Lauren Hall, and Amanda Zurawski at the Texas State Capitol after filing a lawsuit on behalf of Texans harmed by the state's abortion ban on March 7 in Austin, Texas. Tom Williams/CQ Roll Call/APExperts say that abortion bans in states like Texas lead to increased risk for both babies and mothers.

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☆ Pfizer Group B strep vaccine for infants returns encouraging mid-stage trial results
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-19 | by ( Annika Kim Constantino | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +2 min

Pfizer on Wednesday said its experimental vaccine targeting the potentially deadly bacterial disease Group B Streptococcus returned strong mid-stage clinical trial results, a promising step as the drug inches toward potential approval. Pfizer is among several drugmakers racing to develop the world's first shot targeting Group B strep disease, which is linked to nearly 150,000 infant deaths worldwide each year, especially in lower-income countries. Pfizer's single-dose shot generated antibodies that may provide infants with meaningful protection against the disease, according to the data released Wednesday from a phase two clinical trial. Pfizer's encouraging phase two trial results provide hope that maternal vaccination against the disease, also known as GBS, could help prevent thousands of cases in babies. The results will also help the company plan its phase three clinical trials on the shot, which are typically required before the FDA approves a drug.

Persons: Streptococcus, Melinda Gates Organizations: Pfizer, Drug Administration, FDA, Melinda Gates Foundation

☆ We Can Stop the Rise in Maternal Mortality - The New York Times
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-16 | by ( Veronica Gillispie-Bell | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +4 min

The Alliance for Innovation on Maternal Health, or AIM, is a quality improvement initiative designed to put in place and support best practices to reduce maternal morbidity and mortality. Maternal outcomes are not determined by health care alone. What we call social determinants of health — where we live, work and play — also affect health outcomes. When we think about maternal mortality, we should also look to economic stability, education access, health care access, neighborhood and the built environment and community. There is a biased belief that Black women are overly loud and demanding and that we can take more pain than our white counterparts.

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☆ Another twist in the 40-year-old missing ‘Vatican girl’ case
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-15 | by ( Barbie Latza Nadeau | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +8 min

It gained further international attention with the release last fall of Netflix’s “Vatican Girl” docuseries by filmmaker Mark Lewis. Among the documents was correspondence between Agostino Casaroli, then Vatican secretary of state, and a Colombian priest who had been the spiritual guide and confessor of the Orlandi family. Now the Orlandi family fears that the Vatican dossier does not include investigatory leads they hoped the Rome prosecutor would follow – primarily that the Vatican was somehow involved. The teenager was the daughter of a prominent Vatican employee and lived inside the fortified walls of Vatican City, where her mother still lives. Laura Sgro, the attorney for the Orlandi family, said at the press conference that the authorities had also cleared the uncle.

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☆ Missing children found after 40 days in Amazon released from hospital
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-15 | by ( Stefano Pozzebon | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +2 min

CNN —Four young children found last month after surviving 40 days in the Amazon rainforest following an air crash have been released from hospital and are in good shape, according to Colombian authorities. The four children, ages between 1 and 13, have been receiving treatment at Colombia’s Military Hospitalin Bogota since they were found on June 9. They were released from the medical facility on Friday and are now staying at a shelter home, according to Astrid Garces, director of Colombian Children Welfare Agency ICBF, at a press briefing Friday. The children are staying at one of the 188 shelters the agency runs across Colombia. Traces pointing to their survival sparked a massive military-led search involving more than hundred Colombian special forces troops and 70 indigenous scouts combing the area.

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☆ FDA approves first over-the-counter birth control pill
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-13 | by ( Carma Hassan | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +3 min

CNN —The US Food and Drug Administration on Thursday approved the birth control pill Opill to be available over-the-counter — the first nonprescription birth control pill in the United States. Opill is expected to be available over-the-counter in stores by the end of March 2024. The FDA has faced pressure to allow Opill to go over-the-counter from lawmakers as well as health care providers. A recent study showed that it has become harder for women to access reproductive health care services more broadly — such as routine screenings and birth control — in recent years. About 45% of women experienced at least one barrier to reproductive health care services in 2021, up 10% from 2017.

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Medical school curriculums, for example, include erroneous claims that Black women’s nerve endings are “less sensitive” and require less anesthesia, and that Black women’s blood coagulates faster than that of white women, leading to delayed treatment for dangerous hemorrhages, according to the report. There are more than 200 million people of African descent in the Americas — one in four people in Latin America and the Caribbean, and one in seven in the United States and Canada. Among countries that provide maternal death rates by race, the United States has the lowest death rate overall, but the widest racial disparities. Black women in the United States are three times more likely than white women to die during or soon after childbirth. Those problems persist across income and education levels, as Black women with college degrees are still 1.6 times as likely to die in childbirth than white women who have not finished high school.

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Stanton, Kentucky CNN —All Heather and Nick Maberry wanted to do was hold their dead baby, but strict Kentucky abortion laws meant they couldn’t. They were “furious” that the laws meant they never got to kiss or cuddle their daughter, Willow Rose, or tell her goodbye, Heather said. The Maberrys wanted to terminate the pregnancy, but a near-complete abortion ban in their state doesn’t have exceptions for birth defects – even severe ones like anencephaly. CNN reached out to three sponsors of Kentucky abortion laws to ask why fatal fetal anomalies aren’t an exception to the current laws. While she was willing to take that risk for a live baby, Willow was not going to live.

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☆ U.S. maternal mortality more than doubled since 1999, most deaths among Black women - study
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-03 | by ( Nancy Lapid | Thomson Reuters | Nancy Has Been A Health News Editor At Reuters For More Than A Decade. Previously She Was A Writer | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +2 min

July 3 (Reuters) - The number of U.S. women who died within a year after pregnancy more than doubled between 1999 and 2019, with the highest deaths among Black women, researchers said on Monday. There were an estimated 1,210 maternal deaths in 2019, compared with 505 in 1999, according to a study published in the medical journal JAMA. Unlike previous U.S. studies of maternal mortality, which focused on national trends, the current study analyzed data state-by-state. To the researchers' surprise, Black women had the highest maternal mortality rates in some Northeast states. "Our findings provide important insights on maternal mortality rates leading up to the pandemic, and it's likely that we'll see a continued increase in the risk of maternal mortality across all populations if we analyze data from subsequent years," Bryant said.

Persons: Dr, Allison Bryant, Brigham, Bryant, Nancy Lapid, Michael Erman Organizations: American Indians, Alaska Natives, Blacks, Pacific Islanders, U.S . Centers for Disease Control, Thomson Locations: Alaska, California, Massachusetts, Boston, Midwest, Great

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