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Extremely small newborns tolerated a restrictive red blood cell transfusion strategy for anemia in the multicenter TOP trial.
Around 2 years of age, infants had similar rates of either death or survival but with neurodevelopmental impairment (i.e., cognitive delay, cerebral palsy, hearing, or vision loss) whether they had been randomized to higher or lower hemoglobin thresholds for transfusion in the neonatal intensive care unit (NICU) shortly after birth (50.1% vs 49.8%, adjusted RR 1.00, 95% CI 0.92-1.10).
The individual components of death (16.2% vs 15.0%) and neurodevelopmental impairment (39.6% vs 40.3%) were no different between the higher and lower hemoglobin strategies, respectively, according to a group led by Haresh Kirpalani, MD, MSc, of Children s Hospital of Philadelphia.
Why isn’t more Covid-19 vaccine available immediately?
To truly control the pandemic, most people around the world need to be vaccinated against Covid-19. That’s a tall order involving billions of shots.
By the end of this year, only about 70 million doses of the Covid-19 vaccines from Pfizer and BioNTech and from Moderna and the National Institutes of Health are expected to be shipped out worldwide. Next year, that number will jump to more than 1 billion. Other companies are also working on vaccines, but some populations still might not gain access until 2024.
In the meantime, the death toll continues to rise.
La Nouvelle Tribune
Kelley Cutler was deeply skeptical when she took part in a month-long pilot test of Reveri Health, a new digital hypnosis program, at Stanford University last year. The San Francisco social worker needed help quitting smoking, and only joined the program at her doctorâs urging.
âI was thinking it was nonsense and was never going to work,â says Ms. Cutler, 44, who had smoked for 25 years. Her first hypnosis session, which took place in person with a clinician, was so anxiety-producing that she had to have a cigarette afterward.
Reveri Health, one of a new generation of hypnosis programs and apps that make the practice easily accessible at home, then required her to take part in interactive, self-hypnosis sessions at home for a month. After two of the digital sessions, she was shocked to discover that she no longer felt like smoking. âThe craving was really gone,â she says. âI canât explain it. It doesnât make sen
To truly control the pandemic, most people around the world need to be vaccinated against COVID-19. That’s a tall order involving billions of shots.
By the end of this year, only about 70 million doses of the COVID-19 vaccines from Pfizer and BioNTech and from Moderna and the National Institutes of Health are expected to be shipped out worldwide. Next year, that number will jump to more than 1 billion. Other companies are also working on vaccines, but some populations still might not gain access until 2024.
In the meantime, the death toll continues to rise.
So why can’t doses be pumped out and distributed faster?
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Tessy Igomu
Over a quarter of pregnancies might end up as ectopic, in miscarriage or stillbirth if the father-to-be is unhealthy and has three or more medical conditions like obesity, diabetes, high blood pressure or high cholesterol levels, a study has revealed.
The researchers emphasised that pre-conception counselling should not forget the father, as his health may have an important impact on the pregnancy outcome.
The study, published in Human Reproduction, a peer-reviewed journal, was carried out by researchers from Stanford University School of Medicine, California, United States.
According to the study, which involved nearly a million pregnancies between 2009 and 2016 in the US, if a father was diagnosed with metabolic syndrome that includes the listed medical conditions, there was an increased risk of the mother losing the pregnancy.