�Many nursing mothers wHO have been hospitalized for breast abscesses are stricken with the "superbug" methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus, or MRSA, but according to new research by UT Southwestern Medical Center physicians, conservative treatment commode deal with the problem.
The study focused on hospitalized women with mastitis, and showed that MRSA was much more likely to be found in those who had both mastitis (an rubor of the milk glands) and abscesses (pockets of infection).
"The take home message is that a patient with mastitis does not necessarily need an antibiotic against MRSA," aforesaid Dr. George Wendel, prof of obstetrics and gynecology and senior author of the study, which appears in the September issue of the journal Obstetrics and Gynecology. "She will improve with a less specific antibiotic drug as long as she also empties her breasts, either through feeding or pumping, and if there's an abscess, gets it treated."
The field of study also showed that if a nursing mother has an abscess, she does not immediately need antibiotics against MRSA, but tin can be switched to them if tests reveal she has MRSA.
The study was designed to determine which antibiotic handling is best for spartan cases of mastitis, which can be caused by clogged milk ducts with or without infection, and breast abscesses, which ar caused by bacterial infections, generally by aureus. There are many strains of staph, one of which is MRSA.
Treating mastitis or breast abscesses immediately with powerful drugs that fight MRSA carries a risk of creating even more than antibiotic-resistant strains of staph, Dr. Wendel said.
"The physician can take the time to quiz the patient to determine what kind of bacteria she has," Dr. Wendel said. "We found that you're non going to put the patient at a disadvantage if you start her on antibiotics while you wait for culture results, then shift her to more sinewy medication if she has MRSA."
The study involved 136,459 women who delivered at Parkland Memorial Hospital between 1997 and 2005. Of those, 127 were hospitalized with mastitis, which tends to strike jr. women having their number one child.
The researchers found that about 59 percent of the women with both mastitis and abscesses had MRSA, piece only 2 percent of women with mastitis unequalled had MRSA. Because the study tracked women wHO had been hospitalized, in that respect is no way to know whether this dimension is the same in women treated for mastitis on an outpatient base, Dr. Wendel said.
MRSA is resistant to many antibiotics, but the researchers launch that regular in cases when the exact crusade of the mastitis or abscess had not til now been determined, and the women ab initio received antibiotics that don't affect MRSA, all eventually recovered completely.
During the study, when tests showed that a womanhood had MRSA, she was switched to vancomycin, an antibiotic effective against it.
About 2 percentage to 10 percent of all nursing mothers germinate some sort of white meat inflammation such as mastitis, the researchers said. Symptoms of mastitis include unexplained fever and deep irritation or protuberance in one and only breast merely not the other.
In direct contrast to mastitis, an abscess is caused by a localized infection, which causes pain in a specific area that can feel hot to the touch and come out red on the skin.
"Women should seek medical charge if they have any symptoms or concerns for breast infections," said Dr. Irene Stafford, resident in obstetrics and gynecology and lead generator of the study.
Other UT Southwestern researchers involved in the study were Drs. Jennifer Hernandez and Vanessa Laibl Rogers, both helper professors of obstetrics and gynecology; and Drs. Jeanne Sheffield and Scott Roberts, both associate professors of obstetrics and gynecology.
Visit hypertext transfer protocol://www.utsouthwestern.org/obgyn to learn more about clinical services in obstetrics and gynecology at UT Southwestern.
Dr. George Wendel
Source: Aline McKenzie
UT Southwestern Medical Center
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Sunday 31 August 2008
Calif. AG, Family Planning Advocates Say Proposed HHS Rule Would Overturn State Birth Control Law
�California Attorney General Jerry Brown (D) and some family planning advocates on Wednesday said that a draft HHS regulation would prohibit the state from enforcing the state jurisprudence requiring insurance coverage for birth control to women, the San Francisco Chronicle reports (Egelko, San Francisco Chronicle, 8/21). Also on Wednesday, the Planned Parenthood Action Fund and MoveOn.org Political Action submitted a petition with more than 325,000 signatures urging HHS Secretary Mike Leavitt to retire the draft rule from consideration, ABC News reports (Barrett, ABC News, 8/20).
According to the Chronicle, the administration drafted the proposition to apply laws prohibiting recipients of federal cash in hand from penalizing health practitioners who reject to perform abortions or provide abortion referrals (San Francisco Chronicle, 8/21). At the newsworthiness conference announcing the request, Ellen Golombek, PPAF frailty president of external affairs, said the draft regulation "would provide providers to withhold critical health tutelage information without telling their patients." According to ABC News, other advocates renowned that the draft "muddies the demarcation between abortion and contraceptive method, and think it an opening for health care providers to more a great deal refuse to prescribe birth control and other forms of contraception and limit women's health care options" (ABC News, 8/20).
The leaked draft rule defines miscarriage as "any of the various procedures -- including the prescription and administration of any drug or the carrying into action of whatsoever procedure or any other action -- that results in the termination of the life of a human existence in utero between excogitation and natural birth, whether before or after implantation" - a definition of abortion that could include many forms of hormonal contraception and intrauterine devices. (Daily Women's Health Policy Report, 8/11).
Brown in an Aug. 4 letter to Leavitt wrote, "By financially punishing baulker states with the loss of (federal) funding, the regulation would intrude on the self-assurance of states to enact and enforce laws that ensure women's access to birth ascendence." California's practice of law, which was passed in 2000 and upheld by the land Supreme Court in 2004, was passed in reception to the decision by some insurance companies to cover male infertility drugs but non oral contraception for women. The legal philosophy exempts christian church employees, merely the state Supreme Court ruled that the bar applies to the 52,000 employees of Catholic hospitals and 1,600 employees of Catholic Charities.
The U.S. Supreme Court declined to hear an appeal by Catholic Charities on the California opinion and a similar opinion by the New York Supreme Court. Twenty-five states have laws similar to California's measure, according to the Guttmacher Institute.
If the draft HHS regulation is enacted, it would be a "giant step down a route that will potentially leave behind women with a major loss of access to contraceptive methods," Kathy Kneer, CEO of Planned Parenthood Affiliates of California, aforesaid. She added that opponents of the rule will continue urging members of Congress and federal officials to stop consonant it from being issued, adding that if they fail they will need the adjacent president to repeal the rule (San Francisco Chronicle, 8/21).
Leavitt in an Aug. 7 web log entry said he has ordered the draft regulation to be rewritten with a narrow focus on allowing wellness care workers to decline to participate in procedures they find objectionable. He also aforesaid that HHS is "silent contemplating if it volition issue a regulation or not. If it does, it will be directly focused on the shelter of practitioner conscience." However, Leavitt did not state what he meant by "practitioner conscience" or the extent to which the protection would allow health care workers to deny services (Daily Women's Health Policy Report, 8/11).
David Stevens, CEO of the Christian Medical and Dental Associations, said many of the group's 15,000 members have been denied jobs or promotions for refusing to perform abortions or prescribe contraceptives that they believe are the equivalent of miscarriage. "There is an organized effort to force health care professionals to do things that violate their conscience," Stevens said. According to the Chronicle, the proposed rule is backed by some other religious organizations opposed to abortion, and it is opposed by the American Medical Association, the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists and one hundred fifty members of Congress, including Democratic presidential candidate Sen. Barack Obama (Ill.) (San Francisco Chronicle, 8/21).
Reprinted with kind permission from http://www.nationalpartnership.org. You pot view the entire Daily Women's Health Policy Report, search the archives, or sign up for electronic mail delivery here. The Daily Women's Health Policy Report is a free service of the National Partnership for Women & Families, published by The Advisory Board Company.
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According to the Chronicle, the administration drafted the proposition to apply laws prohibiting recipients of federal cash in hand from penalizing health practitioners who reject to perform abortions or provide abortion referrals (San Francisco Chronicle, 8/21). At the newsworthiness conference announcing the request, Ellen Golombek, PPAF frailty president of external affairs, said the draft regulation "would provide providers to withhold critical health tutelage information without telling their patients." According to ABC News, other advocates renowned that the draft "muddies the demarcation between abortion and contraceptive method, and think it an opening for health care providers to more a great deal refuse to prescribe birth control and other forms of contraception and limit women's health care options" (ABC News, 8/20).
The leaked draft rule defines miscarriage as "any of the various procedures -- including the prescription and administration of any drug or the carrying into action of whatsoever procedure or any other action -- that results in the termination of the life of a human existence in utero between excogitation and natural birth, whether before or after implantation" - a definition of abortion that could include many forms of hormonal contraception and intrauterine devices. (Daily Women's Health Policy Report, 8/11).
Brown in an Aug. 4 letter to Leavitt wrote, "By financially punishing baulker states with the loss of (federal) funding, the regulation would intrude on the self-assurance of states to enact and enforce laws that ensure women's access to birth ascendence." California's practice of law, which was passed in 2000 and upheld by the land Supreme Court in 2004, was passed in reception to the decision by some insurance companies to cover male infertility drugs but non oral contraception for women. The legal philosophy exempts christian church employees, merely the state Supreme Court ruled that the bar applies to the 52,000 employees of Catholic hospitals and 1,600 employees of Catholic Charities.
The U.S. Supreme Court declined to hear an appeal by Catholic Charities on the California opinion and a similar opinion by the New York Supreme Court. Twenty-five states have laws similar to California's measure, according to the Guttmacher Institute.
If the draft HHS regulation is enacted, it would be a "giant step down a route that will potentially leave behind women with a major loss of access to contraceptive methods," Kathy Kneer, CEO of Planned Parenthood Affiliates of California, aforesaid. She added that opponents of the rule will continue urging members of Congress and federal officials to stop consonant it from being issued, adding that if they fail they will need the adjacent president to repeal the rule (San Francisco Chronicle, 8/21).
Leavitt in an Aug. 7 web log entry said he has ordered the draft regulation to be rewritten with a narrow focus on allowing wellness care workers to decline to participate in procedures they find objectionable. He also aforesaid that HHS is "silent contemplating if it volition issue a regulation or not. If it does, it will be directly focused on the shelter of practitioner conscience." However, Leavitt did not state what he meant by "practitioner conscience" or the extent to which the protection would allow health care workers to deny services (Daily Women's Health Policy Report, 8/11).
David Stevens, CEO of the Christian Medical and Dental Associations, said many of the group's 15,000 members have been denied jobs or promotions for refusing to perform abortions or prescribe contraceptives that they believe are the equivalent of miscarriage. "There is an organized effort to force health care professionals to do things that violate their conscience," Stevens said. According to the Chronicle, the proposed rule is backed by some other religious organizations opposed to abortion, and it is opposed by the American Medical Association, the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists and one hundred fifty members of Congress, including Democratic presidential candidate Sen. Barack Obama (Ill.) (San Francisco Chronicle, 8/21).
Reprinted with kind permission from http://www.nationalpartnership.org. You pot view the entire Daily Women's Health Policy Report, search the archives, or sign up for electronic mail delivery here. The Daily Women's Health Policy Report is a free service of the National Partnership for Women & Families, published by The Advisory Board Company.
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Monday 11 August 2008
Bernie Mac Dies From Pneumonia Complications
Chicago bred comedian Bernie Mac passed away earlier today (August 9) from complications with pneumonia.
Mac had been under hospital care this past week at Northwestern Hospital where he died Saturday.� He was 50 years old.
Mac gained national attention in 1992 after appearing on HBO's Def Comedy Jam and went on to appear in films like Friday and the �Oceans Eleven series.
Mac also had a sitcom titled The Bernie Mac Show which airy from 2001 to 2006.
The brash comedian is survived by his wife, Rhonda McCullough and, their daughter, Je'Niece, a son-in-law and a granddaughter, Jasmine.
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Wednesday 6 August 2008
Andy Street and Mach Krys and Jo Azusa and Jerome
Artist: Andy Street and Mach Krys and Jo Azusa and Jerome
Genre(s):
New Age
Discography:
Elements-Desert Light
Year: 2003
Tracks: 12
Spirit Of The Wind
Year: 1999
Tracks: 12
Monday 9 June 2008
Congressman's Fatal Retraction Hil-atious
If being someone's friend means comparing then to a mentally unstable rabbit killer, then Tennessee Rep. Steve Cohen and Hillary Clinton are BFF's.
We grilled Cohen, who compared Hill to Glenn Close's psychotic star turn in "Fatal Attraction." He sees the similarity. That's all we're sayin'.....
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We grilled Cohen, who compared Hill to Glenn Close's psychotic star turn in "Fatal Attraction." He sees the similarity. That's all we're sayin'.....
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Sunday 1 June 2008
Spears is reunited with her mother
Pop singer Britney Spears has reportedly been reunited with her mother Lynne Spears, following a recent fall-out.
According to People magazine, the pair have been photographed together in Los Angeles in recent days.
However, the report suggests that Spears was seen arguing with her mother while on a visit to a car dealership.
An onlooker said: "Lynne and Britney were arguing in the car the whole time. They're both upset and arguing, not having a good time at all."
"After she came out, she pulled over to the side of the road to argue with her mom more," the source said.
According to People magazine, the pair have been photographed together in Los Angeles in recent days.
However, the report suggests that Spears was seen arguing with her mother while on a visit to a car dealership.
An onlooker said: "Lynne and Britney were arguing in the car the whole time. They're both upset and arguing, not having a good time at all."
"After she came out, she pulled over to the side of the road to argue with her mom more," the source said.
Saturday 24 May 2008
will.i.am joins the Wolverine film
Black Eyed Peas frontman will.i.am is to star opposite Hugh Jackman in the new blockbuster 'X-Men Origins: Wolverine'.
Billboard reports that will.i.am, real name William Adams, will play the mutant Wraith in the 'X-Men' spinoff.
Wraith has the power to make himself translucent.
The cast of the new film also includes '30 Days of Night' star Danny Huston, 'Friday Night Lights' star Taylor Kitsch and 'The Number 23' star Lynn Collins.
'X-Men Origins: Wolverine' is due in cinemas on 1 May 2009.
Billboard reports that will.i.am, real name William Adams, will play the mutant Wraith in the 'X-Men' spinoff.
Wraith has the power to make himself translucent.
The cast of the new film also includes '30 Days of Night' star Danny Huston, 'Friday Night Lights' star Taylor Kitsch and 'The Number 23' star Lynn Collins.
'X-Men Origins: Wolverine' is due in cinemas on 1 May 2009.
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