April 16, 2012 | by: Darline Turner-Lee
By regular contributor, Darline Turner-Lee, BS, MHS, PA-CBook Review: Fragile BeginningsFragile Beginnings by Adam Wolfberg, M.D., is a deeply personal account of the events surrounding the birth of his daughter Larissa at 26 weeks and the emerging technologies that are being developed to save such
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January 27, 2012 | by: Darline Turner-Lee
Bed rest is ineffective in treating anything So reads the title of the clinical POEM presented in Essential Evidence (www.essentialevidence.com) in January 2000. The poem is a summary of a study published in the Lancet by Allen et al entitled, Bed rest: a potentially harmful treatment needing
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November 02, 2011 | by: Darline Turner-Lee
[Editor's note: Yesterday, Darline Turner-Lee introduced us to a new study by Ashley Schempf, et al that looks at racial disparities in maternal mortality rates, and the socioeconomic factors that influence those disparities. Today, Darline expounds upon this issue further, including her
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November 01, 2011 | by: Darline Turner-Lee
[Editor's note: Today is part one of a two-part series by Darline Turner-Lee, looking at racial disparities in maternal outcomes. Come back tomorrow to read Darline's discussion on this recent study.] INTRO: The Financial Burden and Racial Disparities of the US Health Care
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August 30, 2011 | by: Darline Turner-Lee
Preterm delivery, delivery before 37 completed weeks of gestation, has been shown to cause significant morbidity in infants and to be a cause of lifelong health problems in these children. The World Health Organization (WHO) reports, Preterm birth is a leading cause of neonatal and infant
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