Psychology & Psychiatry
Motherhood at work: Exploring maternal mental health
Up to 1 in 5 women in the postpartum period will experience a mental health disorder like postpartum depression or generalized anxiety disorder.
Sep 22, 2022
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Psychology & Psychiatry
'Staggering' and 'sobering': More than 80% of US maternal deaths are preventable, CDC study shows
A staggering number of maternal deaths in the United States were found to be preventable, according to a federal analysis of maternal death data released Monday.
Sep 20, 2022
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Obstetrics & gynaecology
Experts say access to late terminations in Queensland is vital
Despite advances in imaging and prenatal screening, not all abnormalities are detectable early in pregnancy, making safe late termination services essential for equitable reproductive health care, according to the authors ...
Sep 12, 2022
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Psychology & Psychiatry
Homicides and suicides linked to pregnancy often associated with mental health conditions, substance use disorder
Maternal mortality in the United States in on the rise. Scientists increasingly recognize that pregnancy-associated deaths—those due to conditions unrelated to the physiologic effects of pregnancy—are important and potentially ...
Sep 9, 2022
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Attention deficit disorders
Pregnant women with obesity and diabetes may be more likely to have a child with ADHD
Children of women with gestational diabetes and obesity may be twice as likely to develop attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) compared to those whose mothers did not have obesity, according to new research published ...
Sep 8, 2022
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Obstetrics & gynaecology
More than half of hospital-based maternal deaths occur at times other than childbirth
Hospitalizations that occur in the antenatal period—or during pregnancy, but before giving birth—and those that occur in the postpartum period, made up over half of in-hospital maternal deaths between 2017–2019, a new ...
Aug 31, 2022
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Health
How COVID-19 may have reversed gains in maternal and child mortality
Declines in essential health care utilization during the COVID-19 pandemic in low- and lower-middle-income countries devastatingly impact women and children's health, according to a new study publishing August 30th in the ...
Aug 30, 2022
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Obstetrics & gynaecology
Study shows successful labor outcomes in expectant mothers using AI
Mayo Clinic researchers have found that using artificial intelligence (AI) algorithms to analyze patterns of changes in women who are in labor can help identify whether a successful vaginal delivery will occur with good outcomes ...
Aug 30, 2022
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Cardiology
Pediatric cardiologists uncover possible cause of racial disparity affecting congenital heart disease
Race was already known to matter when it came to health outcomes for infants with congenital heart disease (CHD), the most common birth defect, affecting 1 in 100 live births. In the first year of life, African Americans ...
Aug 27, 2022
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Psychology & Psychiatry
New fathers in UK felt isolated by maternity restrictions, but bonded better with baby during pandemic, study finds
A new study suggests that due to restrictions on maternity care caused by the COVID-19 pandemic, new fathers in the UK were left feeling isolated, with a sense of loss and disconnection, by being excluded from aspects of ...
Aug 25, 2022
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