Planned Parenthood of New Mexico Limits Non-Abortion Care Due to Surge From Texas
Planned Parenthood clinics in New Mexico are prioritizing abortion care amidst a continuing influx of patients from Texas — where abortion is largely banned — and continuing fallout from the COVID pandemic. The overwhelming demand has prompted Planned Parenthood, which offers low to no-cost services, to refer patients out to surrounding clinics in New Mexico […]
Antidepressant Maintenance No Help for Bipolar I Depressive Episode
Continuing adjunctive antidepressant treatment for up to a year following remission of an acute depressive episode in patients with bipolar I disorder showed no significant benefit for preventing relapse, a randomized trial showed. At 52 weeks, 31% of patients treated with maintenance escitalopram (Lexapro) or bupropion XL (Wellbutrin XL) for that duration of time experienced […]
Home Births in the U.S. Increased Again, Maintaining Pandemic Trend
Home births jumped 12% from 2020 to 2021, continuing an upward trend observed since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic and reaching their highest level since at least 1990, according to the CDC. Home births increased from an absolute 1.26% of total births in 2020 to 1.41% in 2021, representing an increase of 6,000 births, […]
New Monkeypox Cases Plummet, but Racial Gap Remains, White House Says
WASHINGTON — Cases of monkeypox are continuing to decline in the U.S., but the disease is still disproportionately affecting people of color, a White House official said. “In the U.S., about 27,635 cases were reported as of yesterday,” Demetre Daskalakis, MD, White House National Monkeypox Response deputy coordinator, said at an online briefing Thursday. “We […]
Diabetes Prevention Program Continuing After Successful Start – Wyoming Department of Health
Diabetes Prevention Program Continuing After Successful Start June 29, 2022 The Wyoming Department of Health (WDH) continues to offer a no-cost, home-based virtual diabetes prevention program known as #PreventDiabetes to residents at risk of the disease and its effects. Amber Nolte, Chronic Disease Prevention Program manager with WDH, said residents participating in the program, which […]
Here’s The Latest Monkeypox Information You Should Know
Monkeypox cases are continuing to rise globally, suggesting that the rare viral illness has been spreading undetected outside of Africa, in non-endemic countries, for quite some time, the World Health Organization said Wednesday. But despite that indication, health officials assured that the disease that has plagued African countries for decades is unlikely to become a […]
Vaccination Linked to Reduction in Long COVID Symptoms
Vaccination appeared to reduce the likelihood of continuing symptoms of long COVID, British researchers found. Among adults who were first infected with the virus and then received a COVID-19 vaccine, one dose was linked to an initial 12.8% (95% CI -18.6 to -6.6, P<0.001) reduction in the odds of long COVID, and a second dose […]
Pregnancy-Related Deaths Climbed In Pandemic’s First Year
Pregnancy-related deaths for U.S. mothers climbed higher in the pandemic’s first year, continuing a decades-long trend that disproportionately affects Black people, according to a government report released Wednesday. Overall in 2020, there were almost 24 deaths per 100,000 births, or 861 deaths total — numbers that reflect mothers dying during pregnancy, childbirth or the year […]