A statewide quality initiative can improve severe maternal morbidity (SMM) and reduce the incidence of maternal morbidity and mortality from postpartum hemorrhage (PPH), a modeling analysis found. Such measures could potentially provide savings to birthing hospitals, according to the California cost-effectiveness study, published in Obstetrics & Gynecology. A team led by Eric C. Wiesehan, MHA, MBA, a PhD candidate in health […]

Water weight. It’s the bane of dieters looking to lose pounds, causing bloating, puffiness and disappointment when stepping on a scale. While a full 60% of your body is water, sometimes too much water is retained. That can make losing weight frustrating because it may seem like you aren’t actually losing weight. Varying water levels can make a person’s weight […]

They come from broken homes, from youth welfare organizations, or from the street. These are the addicted children and teenagers who seek help at Germany’s “Teen Spirit Island.” Medscape spoke to the pediatric and adolescent psychiatrist Frank M. Fischer, MD, senior physician of the Addiction and Trauma Therapy Ward at the Auf der Bult Children’s Hospital in Hanover, Germany. Medscape […]

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Adult and adolescent patients with moderate to severe atopic dermatitis (AD) showed significant improvements with the addition of lebrikizumab to topical steroid therapy (TCS), compared with TCS plus placebo, according to results of the 16-week phase 3 ADhere trial. “Lebrikizumab, a monoclonal antibody inhibiting interleukin-13, combined with TCS was associated with reduced overall disease severity of moderate-to-severe AD in adolescents and […]

Mineka Furtch wasn’t bothered by the idea of morning sickness after going through a miscarriage and the roller coaster of fertility medication before she finally became pregnant with her son. But when the 29-year-old from suburban Atlanta was five weeks pregnant in 2020, she started throwing up and couldn’t stop. Some days she kept down an orange; other days, nothing. […]

The study covered in this summary was published on ResearchSquare as a preprint and has not yet been peer reviewed. Key Takeaways In people with depression, the relationship between stressful life events and suicide risk is completely mediated by distress tolerance, defined as an individual’s actual or perceived ability to experience, accept, and persist in the context of negative psychological […]

A new analysis of data from a year-long weight-loss study has identified behaviors and biomarkers that contribute to short- and long-term weight loss. Strictly following a diet—either healthy low-carb or healthy low-fat—was what mattered for short-term weight loss during the first six months. But people who maintained long-term weight loss for a year ate the same number of calories as […]

For patients suffering from sudden illnesses such as myocardial infarction and severe hypoglycemia, prompt administration of emergency medications is imperative, otherwise they may be at great risk of death. Actually, a large number of deaths still occur due to untimely emergency care caused by the lack of emergency equipment and therapeutics near the patients, or the inability of the patient […]

The worst cholera outbreak to affect Malawi in two decades has now claimed 750 lives, a government minister said, while the World Health Organization chief described the southeast African country as among the hardest-hit amid ongoing global epidemics that are “more widespread and deadly than normal.” Malawi’s Health Minister Khumbize Kandodo Chiponda on Thursday ordered the closure of many businesses […]