The transition to parenthood is a major life event that's often accompanied with new challenges related to financial, relationship, and work-life balance concerns.
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New research suggests anxiety among men transitioning into parenthood is significantly higher than reported by the global World Health Organization (WHO) regional prevalence rates.
In a new study published in
The Journal of Psychosomatic Obstetrics & Gynecology, researchers from the Colorado School of Public Health on the University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus studied the prevalence of anxiety among fathers during the perinatal period, which includes pregnancy through the first year of postpartum. The transition to parenthood is a major life event that s often accompanied with new challenges related to financial, relationship, and work-life balance concerns. Despite those changes happening for both men and women, not much is known about the prevalence of anxiety among new fathers, said Jenn Leiferman, PhD, professor at the Colorado School of Public Health. To our knowledge, our study is the first meta-analysis to explore the prevalence rates of anxiety among
We applaud ICE for providing access to a vaccine that will at least bring some relief when people are stripped of their liberties so they don t have to fear they re going to be stripped of their lives, says Laura Lunn, a lawyer who represents ICE detainees in Colorado through the Rocky Mountain Immigrant Advocacy Network.
The Aurora facility, which is run by the private prison company GEO Group through a contract with ICE, was the site of an extended outbreak among ICE detainees in the fall of 2020. Prior to the COVID-19 pandemic, the facility also dealt with outbreaks of other infectious diseases, including mumps and chicken pox.
Deep Brain Stimulation Helps Treat OCD Patients With Comorbidities by Hannah Joy on April 1, 2021 at 4:37 PM
Frontiers in Psychiatry.
DBS is a minimally invasive neurosurgical procedure that uses coordinates to target certain areas of the brain, implanting electrodes that can help regulate abnormal brain activity.
DBS procedures are rare for OCD in the United States; only a couple hundred patients have received this treatment for OCD management since its FDA approval in 2009 via a Humanitarian Device Exemption. The effectiveness of DBS for OCD has been well-documented in literature, but the interplay with comorbid disorders has not been as thoroughly explored.
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The Health Care System Earned Black Coloradans’ Mistrust
How historic racism and inequality in healthcare undermined efforts to tend to communities of color during COVID-19.Angela Ufheil •
Terrence Hughes was seven, maybe eight, years old when he fell out of a cherry tree near his home in Toledo, Ohio, around 1973. Hughes’ uncle rushed him to the emergency room, where X-rays revealed a severe wrist fracture. The doctor, who was white, told his young, Black patient, “This is gonna hurt.” He then roughly grabbed Hughes’ wrist and squeezed it, hard, to reset the bones. “I thought I was going to hit the ceiling,” Hughes says.