Findings from a Johns Hopkins Medicine research study published today in JAMA Network Open provide strong evidence that people who are pregnant and have been infected with SARS-CoV-2 (the virus that causes COVID-19) can safely take the antiviral drug Paxlovid to reduce the possibility of severe disease.
An initiative developed by Cedars-Sinai investigators improves the timeliness of treatment for women with severe pregnancy-related hypertension, one of the leading causes of pregnancy-related death.
Pregnant women living in US states where cannabis is legal must be screened for the drug, for the health of both mother and baby, claim scientists who in a new national study have found that they are far more likely to use the substance.
أشارت الأبحاث قبل السريرية إلى أن العضلات الهيكلية المُجددة وأعراض سلس البول الإجهادي تحسنت بعد استخدام مادة خالية من الخلايا اكتُشفت في مايو كلينك. أشرف فريق عطا بحفر، دكتور الطب، الحاصل على الدكتوراه، وفريق إيمانويل ترابوكو، دكتو الطب، على هذا البحث بالتعاون مع قسم طب القلب والأوعية الدموية وقسم التوليد وأمراض النساء في مايو كلينك. الورقة البحثية منشورة في مجلة إن بي جيه للطب التجديدي.
Research from Quing Zhu’s lab yields a novel method to use ultrasound to enhance machine learning's ability to accurately diagnose - or rule out - ovarian cancer.
A new WWARN meta-analysis commissioned by the World Health Organization (WHO) which informed a change to its treatment guidelines* has been published in The Lancet.
Arthrex and Richard Wolf, global leaders in minimally invasive surgical technology and solutions, announced a U.S.-based partnership to offer comprehensive technology and product offerings in urology, gynecology and general surgery.
The same complex genetics that contribute to a higher risk of type 2 diabetes may also increase the risk of developing diabetes during pregnancy among women of South Asian descent, a study published today in eLife shows.
A UT Southwestern study of more than 1,300 pregnant women diagnosed with COVID-19 found that just 1 in 10 developed moderate, severe, or critical illness and that COVID-19 symptoms and severity were similar across all trimesters.
UC San Diego researchers used human brain organoids to study the effects of prenatal alcohol exposure on neural development, revealing significant harms in molecular detail.
Irvine, Calif., Nov. 17, 2022 – Pregnant women exposed to a green space environment in a virtual reality setting experienced decreases in blood pressure and improvements in mental health and well-being, according to a study led by the University of California, Irvine. In a paper recently published in Environmental Research, co-corresponding author Jun Wu, Ph.
Pregnant trauma patients with certain injury patterns—including multiple injuries, injuries to the head, face, neck, and scalp, and multiple contusions—should be screened for intimate partner violence (IPV), according to study results published in the Journal of the American College of Surgeons (JACS).
Empa researchers are developing a medical chip in collaboration with the ETH Zurich and the Cantonal Hospital of St.Gallen that will allow statements to be made about the effect of substances on babies in the womb. The Zurich-based ProCare Foundation is funding the project, which was recently launched.
A published study that assessed anxiety and depressive symptoms in pregnant women from seven Western countries during the first major wave of the Covid-19 pandemic shows that stress from fears about Covid-19 led to anxiety and depressive symptoms above normal levels.
Black, Indigenous and other women of color who were pregnant or gave birth during the pandemic said these experiences were overshadowed by isolation, confusion and fear, much of it caused by unclear or frequently changing institutional policies, according to a new study.
An analysis of more than 2,400 women who did not have high blood pressure while pregnant found that about 1 in 10 were diagnosed with high blood pressure in the year after childbirth.
Reproductive health experts consider hormonal contraceptives good choices for adolescents because they’re safe and highly effective at preventing pregnancy, but one aspect of their effect on the teenage body remains a mystery – whether and how they modify the developing brain.
A recent study reported data from more than 1,300 infants whose mothers are enrolled in the Kerala Registry of Epilepsy in Pregnancy. Babies were evaluated for mental and motor development at 1 year of age.
RareCyte Inc., ("RareCyte" or "The Company") a leading provider of Precision Biology products and services has been selected by Wellcome Leap to participate in the $50M In Utero program to create the scalable capacity to measure, model and predict gestational development, to achieve the goal of reducing global stillbirth rates by half.
For the last 20 years, however, Dr. Susan Reed and other clinicians who treat menopausal symptoms have had to fence with recommendations from the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force (USPSTF), a body that provides guidance for medication use with such chronic disease conditions as osteoporosis, heart disease, dementia and diabetes.
A decades-long effort to lower the stillbirth rate in the United States has stalled, as has progress in closing a persistent gap in excess stillbirths experienced by Black women compared with White women, according to a Rutgers-led study.
Penn Medicine experts have worked with local partners to improve health care in Botswana for years. Now, a new $3.5 million grant from the NCI will help further that work by addressing one of Botswana’s most serious health challenges: cervical cancer.
Researchers at the University of Pennsylvania’s Basser Center for BRCA at the Abramson Cancer Center have discovered factors that may make breast and ovarian cancers associated with BRCA1/2 gene mutations more likely to recur.
Dimension Inx, a regenerative biomaterials company, and Ann & Robert H. Lurie Children’s Hospital of Chicago have been jointly awarded an NIH Exploratory/Developmental Research Grant.
In a study of pregnant women in the United States, Cedars-Sinai investigators found that a specific imbalance of two placental proteins could predict which women were at risk of developing a severe form of preeclampsia, a life-threatening blood pressure disorder.
Antibiotics routinely used in ovarian cancer care indiscriminately kill gut bacteria, leading to faster cancer progression and lower survival rates, according to recent Cleveland Clinic research.
RUDN scientists have shown the possibility of treating endometriosis with the help of macrophages - immune cells that help fight foreign agents. A new approach in the future can replace the standard treatment with surgery.
For more than four decades, doctors have been split on whether giving steroids during a pediatric open-heart surgery could be helpful for post-operative recovery. A new study is providing a bit more clarity, suggesting there are some benefits for certain kinds of patients.
Although a majority of pregnant women believed that they were aware of the recommendations on food supplement use, the recommendations were not always adhered to in practice, shows a study conducted at the University of Turku, Finland.
Nearly two decades ago, Children’s Hospital Los Angeles was among a handful of centers that pioneered mandibular distraction osteogenesis (MDO) for infants with airway obstructions due to micrognathia (undersized jaw).
Vaginal progesterone, a hormone treatment considered the standard of care for preventing preterm birth in at-risk pregnant women, may not be effective, according to UT Southwestern Medical Center researchers.
Pregnant teens in the U.S. have long been known to face increased health risks and pregnancy complications, but a new study for the first time finds that girls ages 13 or younger who get pregnant face even greater risks. These very young girls are significantly more likely to experience preterm birth, cesarean delivery, and admission to the intensive care unit (ICU) compared to older pregnant teens.
Once again this year, the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU) at Cedars-Sinai Guerin Children’s celebrated Halloween with special hand-sewn costumes for the medical center’s smallest babies. The costumes are designed for babies as little as 2 pounds and are based on characters in famous children’s books.
Listeria bacteria are ubiquitous in the environment and consumption of food contaminated with Listeria monocytogenes is one of the main routes for food-borne outbreaks.
Findings suggest exclusions to Medicaid because of immigration status may increase risk for maternal health care disparities in some immigrant populations
New research from Yale Cancer Center reveals for the first time ever a differential clinical response to pembrolizumab in Lynch-like (mutated) vs methylated microsatellite instability-high (MSI-H) uterine cancer patients, increasing our understanding about the proportion of patients that derive benefit from immune checkpoint blockade.
UW Medicine researchers compared vaginal samples collected from 95 young women or adolescent study participants in Kenya before or after they began having sexual intercourse. They found a sharp increase in proteins that control the immune response, including IL-1β, IL-2, and CXCL8, during the first year after becoming sexually active.
عزيزتي مايو كلينك: أعاني من الشقيقة (الصداع النصفي) بشكل متقطع لمدة خمس سنوات تقريبًا. في الآونة الأخيرة، يبدو أن العلاج الفموي الذي أستخدمه أقل فعالية. بالرغم من أنني أعلم بوجود أدوية جديدة، فقد اقترحت عليَّ إحدى صديقاتي أن أجرب حُقن البوتوكس. حيث تُقسم أنه سيطر على الصداع المزمن لديها. ما مدى أمان هذه الحقن وكيف يعمل البوتوكس؟ ما هو جدول العلاج، وهل سأحتاج أيضًا إلى تناول أدوية أخرى للصداع؟
الإجابة: تمت الموافقة على توكسين أونابوتولينوم أ، أو البوتوكس، من قبل إدارة الغذاء والدواء الأمريكية في عام 2010 لعلاج الشقيقة (الصداع النصفي) المزمنة. ولكنه ليسَ علاجًا نهائيًا. عادةً ما يتلقى الأشخاص الذين يتلقون حقن البوتوكس للصداع العلاج كل ثلاثة أشهر تقريبًا.
ESTIMADA MAYO CLINIC: venho sofrendo com enxaquecas intermitentes há mais ou menos cinco anos. Recentemente, a terapia oral que venho usando parece não estar mais fazendo efeito. Apesar de saber que novos medicamentos estão disponíveis, uma amiga sugeriu que eu experimentasse injeções de Botox. Ela jura que as injeções deixaram seus níveis de dores de cabeça sob controle. Essas injeções são seguras e como o Botox funciona? Qual é o cronograma de tratamento e eu também precisaria tomar outros medicamentos para dor de cabeça?
RESPOSTA: a toxina Onabotulínica A, ou Botox, foi aprovada pela Food and Drug Administration (Administração de Alimentos e Medicamentos dos Estados Unidos) em 2010 para tratar enxaquecas. Não se trata de uma cura. As pessoas que recebem injeções de Botox para dores de cabeça geralmente recebem o tratamento mais ou menos a cada três meses.
ESTIMADA MAYO CLINIC: He sufrido migraña de forma intermitente durante aproximadamente cinco años. En el último tiempo, la terapia oral que he recibido pareciera ser menos eficaz. Si bien sé que existen medicamentos más nuevos, una amiga me sugirió que pruebe las inyecciones de bótox. Mi amiga jura que el bótox controló sus dolores de cabeza crónicos. ¿Cuán seguras son estas inyecciones? ¿Cómo funciona el bótox? ¿Cuál es el plan de tratamiento? ¿También tendría que tomar otro medicamento para el dolor de cabeza? RESPUESTA: La onabotulinumtoxina A, o el bótox, fue aprobada por la Administración de Alimentos y Medicamentos en el 2010 para el tratamiento de los dolores de cabeza por migraña crónicos. No es una cura. Las personas que reciben inyecciones de bótox para los dolores de cabeza suelen recibir el tratamiento aproximadamente cada tres meses.