Choosing a nursing home for an elderly loved one is a serious decision. More than half of nursing home residents have some form of dementia, making it difficult for them to communicate coherently with other people. You must trust that the long-term facility you pick…
Scientists at the University of California – Davis are aiming to curb the number of brachial plexus birth injuries through a study that includes data taken from millions of families at hospitals throughout California. A brachial plexus birth injury, known as a BPBI, affects between…
Cerebral palsy (CP) is the most common motor disability in children. Cerebral palsy symptoms can be severe and debilitating, while other times the symptoms are not as easy for others to see, creating more of a secret struggle only the affected individual and the family…
Mothers often describe giving birth as the best day of their lives. For some women, the opposite is true. Instead of feeling joyful and empowered, they suffer from injuries that cause permanent physical and psychological damage during labor and delivery. A recent study from The…
Having a baby is a beautiful experience. Unfortunately, it also can be one of the riskiest. While rare, labor and delivery complications are rising every year. Eighty percent of pregnancies and deliveries go just fine, but the other 20 percent experience a host of physically,…
Encouraging news for those who are pregnant and choose to receive a Pfizer or Moderna mRNA COVID-19 vaccine. Preliminary results from a study published in The New England Journal of Medicine highlight that the Pfizer and Moderna vaccines do not show obvious safety signals among…
During the last 15 months, as people around the world have confronted the COVID-19 pandemic, success has been made. In the U.S. alone, 40 percent of adults, that’s 104-million people, are now fully vaccinated. However, there are concerns that those in charge of making sure…
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) recently announced the Class I recall (the most serious type) of about 8,825 Medtronic Pipeline Flex Embolization Devices. Doctors use these products to treat and prevent certain types of brain aneurysms. This is an expansion on a previous…
Two months ago, one of the strongest hurricanes ever to make landfall in the United States hit Louisiana. Hurricane Ida killed 115 people, and experts estimate that it will cost insurers a staggering $30 billion because of the extensive property damage it left behind. After…
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) recently required the manufacturers of arthritis medications Xeljanz (tofacitinib) and Xeljanz XR (extended-release) to add new warnings to their medications. These warnings will alert doctors and patients to an increased risk of serious heart-related events such as heart…
