I Almost Died Giving Birth — Twice. This Is The Lifesaving Knowledge I Wish I’d Had.
The author holds her 1-week-old son after returning home from the hospital, in the wake of an emergency D&C and postpartum hemorrhage. Courtesy of Lisa McCarty After I almost bled out during the delivery of my first child due to postpartum hemorrhage, or PPH, I had nightmares about it happening again. One week after giving […]
Is it really healthy to restrict protein intake for kidney transplant recipients? Study suggests that sufficient protein intake is necessary to prevent sarcopenia after kidney transplantation
Conventional wisdom holds that low protein intake is essential for kidney disease patients. However, scientists from Osaka Metropolitan University demonstrated that it might not always be the case with their recent study on the relationship between protein intake and skeletal muscle mass in kidney transplant recipients. Their findings were published in Clinical Nutrition. Chronic kidney […]
Presepsin a ‘Robust’ Biomarker of Early-Onset Sepsis
Presepsin holds promise as a biomarker for early-onset sepsis (EOS), a systematic review and meta-analysis confirmed. Across a dozen clinical trials, presepsin had a pooled sensitivity of 0.93 for the primary analysis of culture-proven sepsis (95% CI 0.86-0.96), a pooled specificity of 0.91 (95% CI 0.85-0.95), and a pooled diagnostic odds ratio (DOR) of 131.7 […]
Microplastic pollution aids antibiotic resistance: Engineers at Rice lead study of how polystyrene contributes to crisis
The Styrofoam container that holds your takeout cheeseburger may contribute to the population’s growing resistance to antibiotics. According to scientists at Rice University’s George R. Brown School of Engineering, discarded polystyrene broken down into microplastics provides a cozy home not only for microbes and chemical contaminants but also for the free-floating genetic materials that deliver […]
Simone Biles to Pediatricians: ‘Speak Up’ About Sexual Abuse
Simone Biles holds a combined total of more than 30 Olympic and world championship medals in gymnastics, not to mention several world records. But there’s more to her than that, she said during a plenary session at the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) virtual meeting. “I’m a person at the end of the day and […]