The degradation of medical training in the Red states that have passed all these socially destructive laws about controlling women is something I found completely predictable. I wrote about it, when Dobbs occurred. (See SR Archives) Now, as this article describes, it is playing out. I predict we are going to see all kinds of negative women's health medical issues arise in those Red states, and it will also impact the medical education structure nationwide. We need to find the integrity to pass federal legislation giving women control over their own bodies, just as men have controi over theirs. This insanity is tearing the country apart.
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The fetus Michelle was carrying was dead. At her 14-week checkup, the doctor had detected only low cardiac activity. Now, two weeks later, the physician confirmed it: The fetus likely had been dead for most or all of the intervening time. The 35-year-old Missouri woman, who asked that her real name not be used, vividly remembers what her doctor said next.
“If there’s one thing I want you to go away understanding, it’s that you are in mortal danger,” she told Michelle.
Because she had been carrying a dead fetus for so long, Michelle was at risk of developing sepsis or an infection. “Either could be fatal. I needed to make a choice quickly,” she recalled. Her two options were to receive what’s called a D&E—a dilation and evacuation, the procedure also used for second-trimester abortions—or to be induced and go through labor.
“I said immediately, ‘Well that’s easy, of course I want the D&E. Why would I want to go through labor for a dead fetus?’” Michelle said. “That’s awful.”
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This is why we have such a childhood obesity health crisis. American society does not make fostering wellbeing a priority, and we are paying the social price for this inferior approach to culture. We must change, or continue to deteriorate as a society, as we tear ourselves apart.
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FAIRFIELD, CONNECTICUT— It doesn’t take a rocket scientist to know that having a Pop-Tart for breakfast is not the best thing for your health. However, new research suggests children eating lots of ultra-processed foods also see drops in their physical fitness.
Previous research has linked ultra-processed foods to a higher risk of heart disease in adults. The current study adds to these findings by showing one of the first connections between eating these types of foods and lower physical fitness among kids.
“Healthy dietary and exercise behaviors are established at a very young age,” says Jacqueline Vernarelli, PhD, associate professor and director for the Master of Public Health program at Sacred Heart University, in a media release. “Our findings point to the need to educate families about cost-effective ways to reduce ultraprocessed food intake to help decrease the risk for cardiovascular health problems in adulthood.”
The team used data from 1,500 children between three and 15 as part of the 2012 National Youth Fitness Survey to look at the link between physical fitness […]
We have had 112 mass shootings since 1 January, 8,598 people are dead from gun violence. Do you think that's a problem, I certainly do. Here is some good news from the Biden Administration. It's only a fraction of what is needed, but good news for all that.
President Joe Biden speaks at the Finishing Trades Institute in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Credit: Saul Loeb / AFP / Getty
President Joe Biden signed an executive order to address gun violence on Tuesday in Monterey Park, California, where, in January, a gunman shot 20 people, killing 11, during a Lunar New Year celebration.
Biden’s order will aim to promote secure storage of firearms and increase the number of background checks conducted each year. It will do so within the framework of the Safer Communities Act, a law that passed with bipartisan support during the previous congressional session.
The order will require Biden Cabinet officials to develop a plan to better coordinate support to communities affected by gun violence. It will specifically mandate that Attorney General Merrick Garland develop more clear-cut rules to ensure that federally licensed gun dealers are conducting background checks.
As a result of the executive order, “fewer guns will be sold without background checks, and therefore fewer guns will end up in the hands of [people who have been convicted of felonies] and domestic abusers,” a White […]
Here is some very interesting post-carbon era research that may become a big trend, and I will be following it.
Reference: “Structural basis for bacterial energy extraction from atmospheric hydrogen” by Rhys Grinter, Ashleigh Kropp, Hari Venugopal, Moritz Senger, Jack Badley, Princess R. Cabotaje, Ruyu Jia, Zehui Duan, Ping Huang, Sven T. Stripp, Christopher K. Barlow, Matthew Belousoff, Hannah S. Shafaat, Gregory M. Cook, Ralf B. Schittenhelm, Kylie A. Vincent, Syma Khalid, Gustav Berggren and Chris Greening, 8 March 2023, Nature. DOI: 10.1038/s41586-023-05781-7
The scientists demonstrated that the enzyme, called Huc, turns hydrogen gas into an electrical current. Credit: Monash University
Australian researchers have uncovered an enzyme capable of transforming air into energy. The study, which was recently published in the prestigious journal Nature, shows that the enzyme utilizes small amounts of hydrogen in the air to generate an electrical current. This breakthrough paves the way for the development of devices that can literally generate energy from thin air.
The discovery was made by a team of scientists led by Dr. Rhys Grinter, Ashleigh Kropp, a Ph.D. student, and Professor Chris Greening from the Monash University Biomedicine Discovery Institute in Melbourne, Australia. The team produced and studied a hydrogen-consuming enzyme sourced from a bacterium commonly found in soil.
Recent work by the team has shown that many bacteria use hydrogen from the atmosphere as an energy source in nutrient-poor environments. “We’ve known for some time that bacteria can use the trace hydrogen in the air as a source of energy to help them grow and survive, including in Antarctic soils, volcanic craters, […]
The big takeaway from what the Dominion lawsuit, and now the second Smartmatic lawsuit has provoked is proof of what I have been saying for years. Fox is a propaganda operation specifically designed to provoke the fear, hate, and resentment of about three million white people. Why? Because it has been very profitable for them, and the Murdoch family, as Rupert Murdoch himself said, is about profit above all other considerations. They hire ethical bankrupts like Tucker Carlson, who for pay will spew out lies and disinformation hourly. The Murdochs correctly calculated that as the United States became more diverse and racially a majority-minority country there was a profit opportunity to feedback to that frightened White community their fears and fantasies.
What isn't happening, and I think must happen, is we need to acknowledge what is going on in our culture and address it by talking about the fact that diversity actually improves a culture. How many Americans, as an example, know that in 2022 of the 500 largest American companies 43.8%, or 219 companies, were founded by immigrants or their children? How many millions of Americans derive their livelihood from employment or investment in those 219 corporations?
Fox News host Tucker Carlson discusses ‘Populism and the Right’ during the National Review Institute’s Ideas Summit at the Mandarin Oriental Hotel March 29, 2019 in Washington, DC. Carlson talked about a large variety of topics including dropping testosterone levels, increasing rates of suicide, unemployment, drug addiction and social hierarchy at the summit, which had the theme ‘The Case for the American Experiment.’ Credit: Chip Somodevilla / Getty
The exposure of damning communications between Fox News host Tucker Carlson, producers, corporate bigwigs, other anchors, and staffers at the network regarding their true feelings toward ex-President Donald Trump and his lies about the 2020 election has exposed a vast collaboration to dupe Fox’s audience into believing what its employees knew to be utter rubbish.
On Monday’s edition of Out Front, CNN host Erin Burnett and correspondent Oliver Darcy discussed what the latest batch of private discussions divulges about Fox and its coverage of Trump.
“Even more Fox News texts coming to light from that Dominion defamation lawsuit challenging the right-wing channel for pushings lies that […]
