Over the years, more than a few patients in my women’s health practice have told me that their hormonal birth control — the pill, patch, ring, implant, injection, or IUD — made them feel depressed. And it’s not just my patients: several of my friends have felt the same way. And it’s not just me [...]
Not all anxiety is the same. This checklist can help you determine what’s happening before you talk to your doctor. Everyone gets anxious from time to time, like before a big job interview, finding out test results or buying a new house. “Feeling anxious or worried is a part of everyday life,” says Jonathan S. Wong, [...]
Ahead of the start to flu season, the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) today said not enough pregnant women are getting vaccinated against flu and pertussis (whooping cough), two diseases known to put mothers and their babies at high risk for complications. The CDC detailed the gap in protection and what’s at [...]
Background With 89 239 cases, gonorrhoea was the second most commonly reported bacterial sexually transmitted infection (STI) in European Union/European Economic Area (EU/EEA) in 2017. Gonorrhoea is a serious public health problem as untreated infections may lead to severe secondary sequelae, including pelvic inflammatory disease, first-trimester miscarriages, ectopic pregnancy and infertility [1]. N. infections also [...]
Response activities that stalled for more than 2 weeks in one of the Democratic Republic of the Congo’s (DRC’s) Ebola hot spots due to security issues has resumed on a limited basis, the World Health Organization (WHO) said yesterday in its latest situation report on the outbreak. The WHO said though the decline in [...]
(CNN) Do you compulsively scrub your toilet for fear of germs? Good for you, but how often do you change your bath and hand towels? You’re well-informed, so you already microwave your germy kitchen sponge. Or should you? When’s the last time you sanitized your refrigerator, scrubbed your microwave handles or bleached your kitchen sink? [...]
Mental illness is costing the Australian economy $60 billion every year with a toll of lost wages and reduced productivity eating into company bottom lines, according to a report out today. Key points: Mental illness affects one in five Australians Mental illness’s direct cost to business is estimated to be $13b a year, according to [...]
Which Airlines Make the Grade? When Cecilia Watson is around dogs, she immediately starts coughing and wheezing. Her Asthma Action Plan calls for strict avoidance, but as a frequent traveler, that’s difficult to do on airlines that increasingly allow pets to accompany passengers. The 54-year-old fears exposure to dog allergens could lead to a severe [...]
With snow on the ground, many people will have been huddling around a wood fire, but researchers are questioning if wood burning is really climate neutral. Burning wood is not CO2 free; it releases carbon, stored over the previous decades, in one quick burst. For an equal amount of heat or electricity, it releases more CO2 than burning [...]
Abstract Objective: To evaluate the contribution of serious mental illness (SMI), and specific risk factors (comorbidities and substance use) to the risk of adverse birth outcomes. Study design: This cross-sectional study uses maternal delivery records in the Healthcare Cost and Utilization Project Nationwide/National Inpatient Sample (HCUP-NIS) to estimate risk factor prevalence and relative risk of [...]
