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Sepsis mortality greater in Black than White children despite similar interventions
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- Tara Haelle
The findings reveal how structural racism and inequalities built into the U.S. health care system put Black children and other communities at...
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Five times greater suicide risk for trans, gender-diverse teens in ED
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- Tara Haelle
Suicide rates in transgender and gender-diverse youth are high in the U.S., but current methods of identifying trans and gender-diverse youth in...
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Teens streaming on Twitch vulnerable to predators
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- Tara Haelle
Twitch is one of multiple online platforms that allows teens to live stream content that could be accessed and followed by potential adult...
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Teens have easy online access to Delta-8 cannabinoid products
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- Tara Haelle
Only 2 websites out of 45 had any mechanism for verifying customers’ ages, and most of the cheapest products sold were edibles in colorful...
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How clinicians can prepare for and defend against social media attacks
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- Tara Haelle
There are a lot of important benefits to having a professional presence across social media platforms, but it’s...
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Postmenopausal stress linked to mood, cognitive symptoms
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- Tara Haelle
Hair cortisol offers a novel way to collect data on chronic stress in postmenopausal women, the lead researcher suggested.
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Fathers’ postpartum depression linked to children’s adversity
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- Tara Haelle
While not studied as much as maternal depression, paternal postpartum depression can have substantial negative impacts on children’s long-term...
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Metabolic effects of estetrol are promising in postmenopausal women
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- Tara Haelle
Preliminary findings suggest estetrol continues to hold potential for becoming an additional option in treating menopause symptoms.
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Cannabis use growing among menopausal women
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- Tara Haelle
Cannabis is being increasingly marketed for treating menopause-related and aging-related symptoms.
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Pelvic yoga, physical conditioning both improve urinary incontinence
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- Tara Haelle
Women completing a 3-month pelvic yoga program to treat urinary incontinence improved only modestly more on one measure than women doing physical...
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Hormone therapy less effective in menopausal women with obesity
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- Tara Haelle
It’s unclear whether the treatment itself is less effective or whether the women are not receiving an adequate dosage, because women with obesity...
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CBT effectively treats sexual concerns in menopausal women
- Author:
- Tara Haelle
Though a small study, the findings confirm previous research results found in women with sexual concerns after gynecologic cancer.
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Menopausal hormone therapy less prescribed for Black women
- Author:
- Tara Haelle
There’s likely a combination of reasons for these disparities, with both provider and patient factors contributing, researchers say.
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Worm pulled from woman’s brain in case that ‘stunned’
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- Tara Haelle
“When you operate on a brain, you don’t expect to find anything alive.”
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MS drugs during pregnancy show no safety signals
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- Tara Haelle
Data on outcomes from cladribine, ocrelizumab, ofatumumab, and ozanimod during pregnancy showed no miscarriages or malformations above the general...