No placental damage observed in case study of pregnant women with mRNA COVID-19 vaccinations
Vaccinations have been rolling out in many parts of the world since December 2020 in an attempt to turn the tide of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic. But are COVID-19 vaccines safe for pregnant women?
New research by a team at Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, USA, suggests that the COVID-19 vaccine does not damage the placenta and may be safe to use during pregnancy.
The study, published in the
American Journal of Obstetrics and Gynecology, is the first study to assess the effect of mRNA COVID-19 vaccines on the placenta.
Soft sensors comprehensively monitor pregnant women without wires
Laboring mothers have been wearing the same cumbersome, polyester fetal-monitoring belt for decades. Not only can these belts slip out of place, requiring constant adjustment, they along with the array of other wires taped to the mother for monitoring tether the mother to the bed, limiting her ability to walk around or move freely in ways that are more comfortable.
Now an interdisciplinary team of researchers led by
The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill is replacing all the belts and wires with three small, thin, soft, flexible, and comfortable wireless sensors.
New study suggests Covid vaccines are safe for pregnant women, don t damage the placenta
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Last Updated: May 13, 2021, 06:09 PM IST
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Until infants can get vaccinated, the only way for them to get COVID antibodies is from their mother.
NEW DELHI: COVID-19 vaccines may be safe during pregnancy, suggests a study that found no evidence of injury to the placenta in pregnant women who received the preventive. The first-of-its-kind study, published on Tuesday in the journal Obstetrics & Gynecology, adds to the growing literature that COVID-19 vaccines are safe in pregnancy. The placenta is like the black box in an airplane. If something goes wrong with a pregnancy, we usually see changes in the placenta that can help us figure out what happened, said Jeffery Goldstein, assistant professor at Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine in the US.
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CHICAGO - For men physicians, the professional perks of networking on social media, like being asked to give a talk, are abundant, a new Northwestern Medicine study reports.
For women physicians, the benefits are far less plentiful, the study found.
What s more, women physicians are more than twice as likely to be sexually harassed on social media than men physicians, according to an earlier study, published in January, of this same group of study participants.
The findings mirror the struggles women physicians face in person when trying to advance their careers, said first author Nicole Woitowich, research assistant professor of medical social sciences at Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine.
American Skin Association Announces 2021 Research Grants for Skin Cancer and Diseases
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NEW YORK, May 13, 2021 /PRNewswire/ American Skin Association has announced the awarding of two coveted research grants under the
ASA Milstein Research Scholar Awards program
.
ASA Milstein Research Scholar Award for Melanoma/Non-Melanoma Skin Cancer and
Ester Del Duca, MD of the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai received the
ASA Milstein Research Scholar Award in Atopic Dermatitis.
This year of grants includes the
ASA Daneen & Charles Stiefel Investigative Scientist Award in Melanoma Research awarded to
Elena Piskonouva, PhD of Weill Cornell Medicine. The Stiefel Family, longtime supporters of ASA, generously contributed $300,000 to support grants for melanoma research. The purpose of this funding is to identify and support emerging leaders in dermatology focused on melanoma research. Specifically catering to mid-ca