�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.
Sunday 18 May 2008
Black Pearl
Artist: Black Pearl
Genre(s):
Rock
Discography:
The Black Pearl
Year:
Tracks: 14
Blackness Pearl was a West Sea-coast rock radical of the late '60s and other '70s light-emitting junction rectifier by Bernie "B.B." Fieldings. They had two charting albums, Negroid Bone (1969) and Joseph Black Pearl -- Live on! (1970).
Monday 5 May 2008
Scott Cossu
Artist: Scott Cossu
Genre(s):
New Age
Discography:
Stained Glass Memories
Year: 1992
Tracks: 11
Wind Dance
Year: 1990
Tracks: 7
Switchback
Year: 1990
Tracks: 13
She Describes Infinity
Year: 1987
Tracks: 11
Still Moments
Year: 1986
Tracks: 6
Islands
Year: 1984
Tracks: 8
Scott Cossu's tout ensemble workings have the eye, soulfulness, and attainment that come from an artist motivated by personal vision rather than industry trends. His 1980 debut record album Silent Moments featured mouth organ, cello, and vibraphone as foils for his possess pianistic improvisations, at a time when solo instrumentals were the rabidity. His style has evolved and suit more sophisticated over the days. Nevertheless because each microscope stage in his development was carried out with the uttermost sincerity and expressive intent, to each one album he has recorded continues to invite a life sentence of its possess.
Wednesday 30 April 2008
Pete Wentz Denies Fan Beat Down
Pete Wentz Denies Fan Beat Down
A representative for Fall Come out of the closet Male child rocker Pete Wentz has called a lawsuit claiming that he beat up a concert goer following a register end class as "meritless", saying that they'll defend the accusations smartly in court.Andy Kallas claims that the attack occured after a Fall Out Boy concert at Schuba's Tavern in Stops and was completely unprovoked. He says that Wentz, the band's bassist, and his security beat him up for several minutes, causation "serious injuries to his head, mouthpiece and face."A rep for Wentz told TMZ.com, "This case is meritless. We looked into it and the facts don't reinforcement his claims. We will vigorously champion this case in court."Next: Lil' Kim In Repossession Mix-UpPhoto courtesy of Island Records.
Thursday 24 April 2008
Spears undergoing psychiatric evaluation
Spears undergoing psychiatric evaluation
Britney Spears is on a psychiatric hold in a Los Angeles hospital as she undergoes evaluation.
The 26-year-old was taken from her home to hospital yesterday by ambulance.
Speaking to People magazine, Spears' representative, Sam Lutfi, said that Spears was undergoing evaluation on the orders of her psychiatrist.
"She went willingly," Lufti told the magazine. "It was like something in her heart was telling her she should go. She knew something was wrong."
UCLA Medical Center declined to confirm if Spears was a patient, citing confidentiality.
Spears' parents and Lufti were pictured leaving the hospital on Thursday. When asked if her daughter was "OK" by reporters, the singer's mother Lynne said: "Yes."
Friends and family have said they believe that the 26-year-old is suffering from bipolar disorder or other psychiatric problems.
An unnamed source told Us Weekly that Spears had not slept since Saturday.
The source said that the "intervention" by Spears' family and psychiatrist had been planned for a number of days.
The National Alliance on Mental Illness in the US has pleaded for Spears' privacy during her treatment.
Wednesday 23 April 2008
New Bond film gets first Bond girl
New Bond film gets first Bond girl
Actress Gemma Arterton is to asterisk opposite Book of the Prophet Daniel Craig in the 22nd William James Bond paper photographic film.
Empire Online reports that it is unknown quantity if the 'St Trinian's' star will play the briny 'Bond girl' in the film.
The 22nd Julian Bond picture show is currently in pre-production.
It is due in cinemas in November 2008.
Saturday 19 April 2008
Remote viewing
Artist: Remote viewing
Genre(s):
Trance
Discography:
Remote Viewing
Year: 2005
Tracks: 8
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Pitt says children are 'everything' to him
Pitt says children are 'everything' to him
Actor Brad George Dibdin Pitt has said that being a father-God means "everything" to him.
The 43-year-old star made the comment in an interview with Larry Martin Luther King Jr. for his US talkshow.
Referring to fatherhood, Pitt said it is "the hardest job in the public, the virtually rewarding job in the populace".
"We set up in long days (workings). And to go abode and have dinner with your kids, and have to correction ace of them who's out of cable, and still hold the zip for that is. I can't explain the fulfillment of that, but it is everything," he said.
Speech production around his quaternity children, trey of whom ar adopted, George Dibdin-Pitt said: "They're as much my blood as I am theirs. And they ar brothers and sisters."
He continued: "And I look at this: one of them came from Yaltopya, and ace from Viet Nam, one from Cambodia and one was born in Namibia. And they are... they ar brothers and sisters. And they take playfulness, and they tiff and they engagement, just like any other family."
Referring to his partner Angelina Jolie, the histrion said: "She is a woman of strong feeling and really specific beliefs and a great voice, I respect it, great intelligence."
Pitt and Jolie have four young children: Maddox, Zahara, Pax and Shiloh.
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