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Vaccinated Measles Patients Occasionally Infect Others, and Contact Tracers Are Now Being Urged Not to Rule Them Out
3+ day, 7+ hour ago (927+ words) A review of 33 published and unpublished reports has found that people vaccinated against measles occasionally passed the virus to someone else, a result the authors say should change how health departments investigate outbreaks rather than how families think about the…...
A 27-Year-Old Arrived with Abdominal Pain, and Doctors Found a Calcified Fetus Beside Her Living Pregnancy
4+ day, 13+ hour ago (866+ words) A 27-year-old woman walked into an emergency department with six hours of abdominal pain and vomiting. She was 12 weeks pregnant. The ultrasound found her fetus alive and developing normally. It also found a second fetus, several inches away, outside her…...
The Famous Sperm Race Is More Complicated Than We Thought: Sperm Can Team Up to Fertilize Eggs
4+ day, 21+ hour ago (682+ words) The image is fixed in every health class in America: millions of sperm, each on its own, sprinting for a single egg, and one winner. A new evolutionary analysis suggests that the picture describes some species and badly misrepresents many…...
Pentagon Will Reimburse Egg Freezing Up to $10,000 a Year but Caps Sperm Storage at Only $500
5+ day, 14+ hour ago (678+ words) The Defense Department will begin reimbursing eligible service members for freezing and storing eggs or sperm under a three-year pilot program starting September 14, according to a notice published in the Federal Register. Reimbursement is capped at $10,000 a year for egg…...
Five Infants Were Possibly Exposed to HIV Through Breast Milk Shared in a Social Media Group
6+ day, 12+ hour ago (874+ words) Five infants in Santa Clara County, California, were identified as possibly exposed to HIV after their families obtained donated breast milk from a woman who offered it in two private social media groups. The investigation, published in the CDC's Morbidity…...
State E-Bike Laws Are Now Splitting Apart as Pediatric Emergency Room Visits Climb Across the Country
6+ day, 10+ hour ago (979+ words) New Jersey now requires every e-bike to be registered with the state and every rider to hold a license, a framework no other state uses. Enforcement began July 19, and it arrived in a country where a family driving three hours…...
A Five Year Research Record on COVID Vaccines and Miscarriage Is Back in Dispute on Capitol Hill
6+ day, 10+ hour ago (877+ words) The claim returned after Senators Ron Johnson and Rand Paul released documents about federal pandemic communications, and Johnson repeated the figure publicly. PolitiFact and FactCheck.org both traced the number back to the same miscalculation. For anyone who is pregnant,…...
Expectant Parents Have Two Ways to Shield a Newborn from RSV Before the Season Opens in the Fall
1+ week, 1+ day ago (680+ words) The seasonal window for respiratory syncytial virus protection opens next month, which turns an abstract choice into a scheduling decision for any household expecting a baby this fall. RSV is the leading cause of infant hospitalization in the United States....
Psychiatry Review Urges Treating Depression in Pregnancy, Finding Little Evidence of Serious Harm from SSRIs
1+ week, 2+ day ago (913+ words) A review in JAMA Psychiatry argues that treating major depressive disorder during pregnancy should be prioritized, concluding that when the effects of medication are separated from those of depression and its consequences, accumulated evidence suggests selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors carry…...
Her Emergency Cesarean Went Smoothly Until the Breathing Tube Came Out
1+ week, 2+ day ago (581+ words) The operation itself was unremarkable. A 41-year-old woman with gestational diabetes needed an emergency cesarean section. The surgery was completed, the anesthesia was reversed, and the breathing tube came out. Within minutes, she was in acute respiratory distress and complaining…...