In the mid-1800s, hospitals were a very dangerous place for a birthing woman. Some may say they still are today. Prior to the recognition of hygiene practices like handwashing and sterilizing medical instruments, women who gave birth in the hospital commonly fell victim to a significant and deadly complication of
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We all want to make it to 39 or 40 weeks, but sometimes life has different plans. Maybe your water breaks, or your cervix starts dilating, or maybe your blood pressure is high. If you find yourself delivering before 37 weeks, first, congratulations on your preemie! Second, you’re not alone.
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So much effort of public health programs is spent on the prevention of infectious diseases. The goal to prevent and even eradicate infectious germs, while it may sound noble and heroic, could also be fundamentally misguided. For one, there’s little attention placed on the short and long term consequences of
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Every year in the United States around 400 children between the ages of one and 18 years die from sudden and unexplained causes, which cannot be determined after a thorough autopsy and investigation. Medical examiners will diagnose these deaths as Sudden Unexplained Death in Childhood (SUDC). But one aspect of
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The new Netflix documentary Take Care of Maya tracks the heartbreaking and enraging medical kidnapping story of Maya Kowalski, who in 2015 at age 9 suddenly began having strange symptoms such as headaches, shortness of breath, immense pain in her limbs and skin, and strange bending of her feet, which are
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It’s hard to believe, but the very first CDC pediatric vaccine schedule was only introduced in 1995. Before the creation of the standardized CDC vaccine schedule, vaccination schedules varied depending on the individual healthcare provider and region. Some providers used their own schedules, while others followed guidelines put forth by
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Disclaimer: It is not my intention to shame or make anyone feel bad. But breastmilk is literally what a baby is designed to consume. Nothing manmade would or could match the inherent complexities of breastmilk, which is a living food, and we can’t rearrange science and nature to spare a
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Last night I watched a home improvement show and was bombarded with pharmaceutical ad after pharmaceutical ad…people dancing, people kayaking, people hiking. Actors paid to promote patented drugs for Ulcerative Colitis..for Plaque Psoriasis. They have to tell you the side effects. They have to warn you IN THEIR AD. Diarrhea,
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You may find yourself in a situation where you are being asked to take a TB test. It is required for many places of employment, including working with children, and also for being a foster parent. It’s important you are aware of the potential risks and side effects of such
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Shared from the baby Kane’s mother, Kasey Sigman. May 8th 2021 after a long pregnancy complicated by excessive vomiting and my prescriptions I had to take.. Our son was born. Labor was not very long, but we had shoulder dystocia. We were absolutely ecstatic to welcome a son to our
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Our brain and central nervous system are critical for survival, therefore it makes perfect sense that there would be many layers of finely tailored protection. One of these layers is known as the blood-brain barrier. The blood-brain barrier is a specialized layer of cells that controls or regulates “traffic” between
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In early September 2021, three-month-old baby Lucas went to sleep and never woke up. By all accounts, he was a healthy and thriving baby. His pediatrician had just seen him the day before and remarked, “I have no worries.” So what happened? Why and how did this healthy baby die
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Elon Musk made headlines once again, this time for a tweet made on November 20th, where he claimed that his firstborn child died in his arms, and he felt his last heartbeat–a memory which was then disputed by his ex-wife Canadian author Justine Musk a few days later. While so
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Honestly, I’ve never had one. Until I had children, it wasn’t even on my radar that a healthy, young person would or should get a flu shot. I’m sure you have been told all the reasons why you *should* get an annual flu vaccine, but are you being offered any
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Santino Godoy Blanco was a four year old Argentinian child whose image was used for a well publicized vaccine campaign in ads and posters throughout Argentina. The campaign, which was promoting an additional free and mandatory mmr shot and polio shot for children ages 13 months to 4 years–began October
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Update: Mother has corrected that the vaccine her daughter received the day before her daughter went into cardiac arrest was Regan’s third dose of the HPV vaccine, Gardasil 9. We think all vaccines are capable of causing death, and that the world deserves to know that. + At 20 years
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Oracle Films has just released a brand new documentary critical of the COVID-19 vaccines on September 28th, and less than 24 hours later has already been viewed over 101,000 times! Safe and Effective: A Second Opinion shines a light on Covid-19 vaccine injuries and bereavements, but also to takes an
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When the COVID-19 vaccines were initially rolled out, and pregnant and lactating women were given the green light to get the experimental injections (despite clinical trials excluding them as a study population) there were reports and stories of nursing infants breaking out into hives, fevers, seizures, or even dying unexpectedly after
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Baby Alexander was born January 3, 2022 with the congenital heart defect Double Outlet Right Ventricle (DORV) and a tracheoesophageal fistula, the latter which was repaired after birth. According to his mom Cornelia Hertzler, he improved a lot after that first surgery: “He has drastically improved since his surgery on
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In the summer of 1963, in the area of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania medical examiner Dr. Joseph Spelman saw an unexpected increase in “crib deaths.” During the last two weeks of June, Dr. Spelman reported that 30 apparently healthy infants were put to bed for the night and died suddenly and unexpectedly.
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