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Families Together With Their Premie Babies

Having a bay is a lot of fun for the mother, her friends and the entire family. However, when a baby is born prematurely, then that could pose a nightmare, especially when the local hospital does not have a neonatal intensive care unit. For example, consider when a mom has a premie baby in Kerrville area, with the long distance between the area and Gillespie County, Austin or San Antonio where you find the neonatal intensive care units. The journey can be quite harrowing.

Belly Fat

Extra weight in older women is not in itself deadly, but the position where the fat is could be dangerous. A study carried out shows that women who are between 70 and 79 years old and are overweight did not reduce their years if the extra pounds were not piled up around the waist. However, at the same time, researchers have established that being underweight also contributes to a shorter lifespan.

Belly fat is more dangerous than being overweight

According to the lead researcher who is also the University of Arizona’s department of epidemiology and biostatics Zhao Chen, the fat that piles on the abdomen is deadlier than being overweight. At the same time, it was found that large waist size in the Hispanic women reported less mortality while they had bigger waists. Dr Chen says that older women should be worried when their weight is below what is required for their height.

Health related data from different providers is critical to the provision of high quality healthcare. At least, that is what patients think. In a survey that was carried out by Humana Subsidiary Transcend Insights, it was determined that 97% of patients would like healthcare organizations to have access to all of their patient records.

In the recently published studies, researchers noted a variation in the type of brain damage such as empty spaces and dead spots in the brain, congenital deafness and cataracts.

How are the children affected?

However, differences were recorded in all the three studies on the potential ways the infected children could be affected.

The observational study cannot be singularly based on to say that heavy drinking is responsible for stunted brain development. Less brain matter may as well be due to genetic factors, and it is such an abnormality that raises their possibility of abusing alcohol.

The lead author, Noora Heikkinen of the University of Eastern Finland, said that “Substance use has been found to be connected to social exclusion, mental health problems and lower educational attainment.”

After cancer, higher risk of severe heart attack

The researchers from Mayo clinic located in Rochester, Minn analyzed data from over 2,300 patients who had this rear type of heart attack referred to as ST-elevation myocardial infarction. For every 10 patients, one of them had a cancer history.

Significant generation change

Those born between 1965 and 1974 (also referred to as Generation X) were found by a recent research to have a 43% stroke cases compared to the Golden Generation.

A lead researcher and Ph.D. candidate at the Rutgers University School of Public Health in New Jersey, Joel Swerdel, said that “People born during what I call the ‘Golden Generation,’ 1945 to 1954, had lower rates of stroke than those born 20 years before them and also in the 20 years after them.”

Normal head size at birth doesn’t rule out microcephaly

This is news that many did not want to fathom but is now a reality. A recent study conducted on 13 Brazilian babies and published in Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report revealed all that to be true. When they were born, these children did not have the typically smaller head linked to Zika. After some few months, 11 of these children developed it.

WHO declares Zika public health emergency over

The World Health Organization’s Emergency Committee clearly stated that Zika virus will no longer be treated as a global public threat to an individual’s health. It went on to warn that over 60 countries have been affected ever since the Zika virus was first reported in Brazil, expressing concerns that the virus will still spread in areas where the virus-carrying mosquitoes are existent.

Migraine Treatment Options

As much as the cause of this connection is yet to be established, Dr. Cecil Rambarat (the study lead author) said that health care providers are better placed if they appreciate the link.

Dr. Rambarat, a resident physician at the University of Florida Shands Hospital in Gainesville, said that being aware of the link is important since migraine has for long been ignored as a risk factor for cardiovascular disease.

He said that it is about time the providers included migraine headaches as having possibly led to cardiovascular disease in the women.