Post-Miscarriage, Aspirin May Affect Next Pregnancy
By Denise Mann
HealthDay Reporter
TUESDAY, Jan. 26, 2021 (HealthDay News) Could something as simple as taking a low-dose aspirin once a day guard against pregnancy loss among women who have already suffered miscarriages?
New research suggests that s the case, though exactly how low-dose aspirin helps stave off miscarriages is not fully understood yet.
But aspirin is anti-inflammatory and in a certain subset of women, miscarriage may be the result of an underlying inflammation, noted study author Ashley Naimi, an associate professor of epidemiology at Emory University in Atlanta.
In his study of more than 1,200 women aged 18 to 40 who had a history of one or two miscarriages, those women who took low-dose aspirin (81 milligrams) five to seven days a week were more likely to get pregnant, stay pregnant and deliver a live baby. The same was seen among women who took aspirin at least four days a week.
By Reena Shah 27 January 2021
I drove to Sarapiquí, a little-known region in Costa Rica, during a brief respite of dry weather between Hurricanes Eta and Iota in search of a miniature tropical bat. Here, conservation efforts big and small are fighting to preserve a lowland tropical rainforest with astonishing biodiversity, including one of the smallest and most adorable mammals:
Ectophylla alba, also known as the Honduran white bat or Caribbean tent-making bat. It was impossible not to coo
I d been warned that these bats aren t always easy to find. They live in selected lowland rainforest habitats from Honduras to eastern Panama. In Costa Rica, I tried my luck at Tirimbina Rainforest Center, a 345-hectare private reserve. At first glance, the neighbourhood seemed an unlikely locale for a rainforest. Pineapple plantations dominated on all sides and spiky green shrubs stretched to the horizon. But tucked away behind an unassuming green gate was an ecological oa
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Just over 200,000 Americans suffer from systemic lupus erythematosus, or SLE, a condition in which the body s immune system mistakenly attacks its own healthy tissues, especially joints and skin, a new study shows.
Led by a researcher at NYU Grossman School of the Medicine, the study provides the first national estimate of how widespread the autoimmune disease is since the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) set up a half dozen state registries to track the illness more than a decade ago. SLE affects mostly women, can be fatal, and often involves debilitating flare-ups of fatigue and pain that keep nearly half of adult patients from working.
CADILLAC — Almost a year ago, just before the state all-but shutdown due to COVID-19, scientists got together to talk about so-called forever chemicals in Michigan.
How animals transfer power from one leader to another: Brute force, inheritance and consensus
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Bees, chimps, clownfish and hyenas all live in groups with a leader or dominant individual. So do many other animals. How does power shift from one animal to another?
The transfer of power is sometimes not that simple.
As the United States inaugurates a new president on Wednesday, here’s a look at the different ways the animal kingdom handles changes in leadership.
Brute force
For chimpanzees, our closest living relatives, a change in the alpha male can be a fairly brutal affair.