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What Is the Difference Between a Birth Defect and a Birth Injury?
When we welcome a new baby into our family, we trust that the medical professionals involved in the labor and delivery process deliver the child safely and in a way that meets industry standards. However, not all doctors, obstetricians, or nurses can uphold this standard – leading to severe, lifelong damage to our children before, … Continue reading What Is the Difference Between a Birth Defect and a Birth Injury? →
Learning to Prevent Birth Defects
All expectant mothers are concerned about limiting birth defects. Medical experts explain that while some defects are unavoidable, proper prenatal care can limit the risks.
Can Eating Healthy Before Pregnancy Prevent Birth Defects?
The foods you eat provide nutrients that are important to help you be healthy before and during pregnancy. Nutrients are parts of food, like vitamins and minerals that help your body stay healthy. …
The Importance of Folic Acid for Preventing Birth Defects
Getting the recommended amount of folic acid every day should be near the top of your list if you're pregnant or planning to become pregnant.
Five Ways You Can Prevent Birth Defects
A parent's wish is for their unborn child to be healthy. Yet 1 in 33 babies are born each year with birth defects. Learn how you can prevent birth defects.
Healthy choices can help prevent birth defects
There are things a woman can do before, during pregnancy to help lower the chances of having a baby with a birth defect.
6 Things You Can Do to Help Prevent Birth Defects
With one in every 33 babies being born with a birth defect each year, it's a heart-rending problem more common than you may think.
Pregnancy: Antipsychotic use does not increase the risk of birth defects
Exposure to antipsychotic drugs during the first trimester of pregnancy is not associated with an increased risk of congenital or cardiac malformations.
Common Examples of Medical Malpractice that Can Lead to Birth Injuries
Thankfully for everyone involved, modern medicine has made the process of pregnancy, labor and delivery much safer for both mother and child than it...
Why You Need to Talk to Your Doctor *After* You Go On Birth Control
New info about birth control and depression shouldn't freak you out — it's just a reminder to check in with your doc.
What Sex After Giving Birth Really Feels Like, According to 30 Moms
Can the year you were born affect your risk of getting serious flu?
The headline sounds like something your clueless relative would forward off social media, but it may be true: Birth year affects flu susceptibility.
Med Tent: Tips for Injury-Free Running
How do you stay injury free? Nothing's guaranteed, but there are things you can do to cut down the risk.
How Healthcare Is Causing 'Moral Injury' to Doctors
The pressures, conflicts, and inability to provide healthcare the way they know they should is causing moral transgression--and psychological harm--in some physicians.
Why Birthing Parents Like Me Can’t Wait for Build Back Better to Pass
The Build Back Better Act’s investments in health care are essential in providing parents with access to care that they may have thought was unimaginable, says senior policy analyst Isha Weerasinghe.
How Doctors and Nurses Can Team Up to Fight Moral Injury in Healthcare
To fight the environment that leads to moral injury and burnout, doctors and nurses must eliminate clinical silos and work together to make an impact.
How Some Patients Fake Illness or Injury and Get Away With It
People faking illness and disability cost healthcare millions annually. Are any of them your patients?
Tell Us How You Ended Up in the ER with a Ridiculous Holiday-Related Injury
It’s the most wonderful — and accident-prone? — time of the year. We want to know about those holiday-related injuries that had you shaking your head.
What Kinds of Injuries Require a Hospital Stay?
Accidents of all kinds can result in injury, but not all injuries require a person to stay in a hospital for treatment. Certain injuries are far more likely to result in a hospital stay than others, according to data from the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ). Common injuries that require a hospital stay include: fractures, brain injuries, poisonings, and injuries caused by slip and…
Tips for at-home wound care
If you've suffered an injury or undergone surgery, you may be required to care for your wound at home. It's important that proper precautions are taken to avoid infection in these instances.
STDs & Preterm Birth — What You Should Know About Risks of Prematurity
STDs can cause preterm labor & premature birth. ARCpoint Labs shares how to prevent infection from hurting your baby.
