Gestational Diabetes (GDM): Prevention A type of diabetes that develops only during pregnancy and usually disappears upon delivery, but increases the mother’s…
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Fetal Alcohol Syndrome Fetal alcohol syndrome (FAS) is a pattern of physical and mental defects that can develop in a fetus in…
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Why Is It So Hard for Doctors to Talk to Patients About Death?
by PBS June 10, 2016Dr. Atul Gawande just wanted to give a patient some hope. But he ended up saying something he would regret. In FRONTLINE’s new film Being Mortal, Gawande remembers treating Sara Monopoli, a woman who was diagnosed with Stage IV lung cancer at 34, in the ninth month of her pregnancy. After giving birth to a […]
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Dr. Atul Gawande: “Hope is Not a Plan” When Doctors, Patients Talk Death
by explainingmedicine June 10, 2016The United States has a problem when it comes to conversations around death and dying, says Dr. Atul Gawande. Patients with life-threatening illnesses tend to focus on how to beat the steep odds against them, he says, without hearing from their doctors about how certain kinds of treatment might actually worsen their remaining time alive. It’s understandable, […]
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RECIFE, Brazil — For the first 27 years he was in practice, most patients were thrilled to visit Dr. Pedro Pires’s ultrasound clinic, where he and his magic machine would give them a first, grainy glimpse at their baby. “Now they come in as though they were sentenced,” he says. “They are so afraid of […]
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As Brazil Confronts Zika, Vaccine Rumors Shape Perceptions
by PBS June 10, 2016RECIFE, Brazil – As scientists have tried to solve the medical mystery behind the surge of babies being born with devastating birth defects in Brazil, they’ve pieced together evidence that the mosquito-borne Zika virus may be to blame. But in northeast Brazil, many residents have fashioned a rival theory: That the defects are caused by […]
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Xulane (see Ethinyl Estradiol/Norelgestromin (Absorbed through the skin))
by explainingmedicine June 8, 2016Norelgestromin and ethinyl estradiol combination contraceptive skin patch is used to prevent pregnancy. Hormones from the patch are absorbed through your skin…
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For months, health officials have been racing to answer a fundamental question about Brazil’s mysterious upswing in microcephaly cases: Is the birth defect being caused by the mosquito-borne Zika virus? If so, does every pregnant woman infected with Zika pass the virus to her unborn child? And does every fetus infected with Zika wind up with […]