Longer Looks: Interesting Reads You Might Have Missed
Each week, KHN finds longer tales so that you can get pleasure from. This week’s picks embrace tales on child formulation, abortion, liver transplants, pancreatitis, prosopagnosia, mind well being. and extra.
San Francisco Chronicle:
How A Nationwide Extreme Formula Shortage Is Causing California Kids With Special Needs To Suffer
For Jane Stefan, the nationwide formulation scarcity didn’t simply imply the inconvenience of in search of an alternate model for an toddler. It triggered one thing far more dire: She needed to have her 6-year-old daughter, Vivienne Pereira, admitted to the hospital for IV diet. (Said, 7/5)
NPR:
The Fight To Fund Abortions In Post-Roe America
To enhance abortion entry, a bunch of native and nationwide organizations often known as “abortion funds” have shaped through the years to assist individuals pay for the process. In post-Roe America, cash is now much more determinative of who can get an abortion and who cannot, and abortion funds are rising as an much more essential mechanism to offer poor ladies in pink states the chance to entry care if they need or want it. (Rosalsky, 7/5)
Fox News:
MIT’s New Human Liver Model Reveals How It Regenerates, Providing Hope For Patients To Avoid Transplants
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), engineers developed a brand new liver tissue mannequin to assist reveal the phases of liver regeneration in hopes to assist these people with liver illness, in line with a brand new examine printed within the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. The researchers stated by discovering an efficient solution to stimulate the liver to regenerate by itself, some liver transplants may probably be averted and it could assist a donated liver develop after being transplanted, in line with a media launch from MIT. (McGorry, 7/2)
North Carolina Health News:
How To Pick A Nursing Home For A Loved One?
When the time comes close to to decide on a nursing dwelling for a liked one, the perfect path is to go to a number of services and speak with directors, employees, and residents, in line with individuals conversant in this transition. But for a lot of households, the necessity for a nursing house is an pressing one, precipitated by a fall or a catastrophic sickness that has instantly rendered a liked one unable to manage at dwelling. (Goldsmith, 7/5)
Scientific American:
The Quest For A ‘Tick Map’
To decelerate the fast unfold of tick-borne sicknesses, the perfect public well being technique could be to foretell the place the pests are more likely to be concentrated—and instantly getting this info to medical professionals and the general public. That’s why researchers are attempting to develop an correct manner of forecasting the place harmful ticks could be. Such a program may ideally be used like a climate map to anticipate hazard areas. (Eschner, 7/7)
On mind well being —
USA Today:
Brain Cancer Patient Charts New Treatment Course For Rare, Lethal DIPG
Lisa Ward’s son Jace has been gone for precisely a 12 months now. But his affect on the care of youngsters with mind most cancers continues. Lisa is making certain of that. Jace, of Wamego, Kansas, was 20 and a sophomore at Kansas State University when he was recognized with diffuse intrinsic pontine glioma, DIPG, a very aggressive type of mind most cancers that normally strikes youthful kids. Affecting about 300 Americans a 12 months, DIPG spreads its tentacles via the brainstem the place capabilities like respiratory and motion are managed. (Weintraub, 7/3)
The Washington Post:
A Girl, Partially Paralyzed By A Brain Injury, Is Now A Role Model
For 13-year-old Reagan Bischoff, who lives in Potomac Falls, the easy duties that different individuals accomplish with ease have been usually the toughest and most irritating for her: buttoning her denims or brushing her hair. Since early childhood, she’s needed to take care of the psychological and bodily challenges of cerebral palsy and partial paralysis on the left aspect of her physique after mind surgical procedure. But her dedication, drive and willingness to be taught and train different youngsters methods to deal with these challenges not too long ago received her an award from Brain Injury Services, a nonprofit that gives companies to individuals with mind accidents in Northern Virginia. (Hedgpeth, 7/3)
The Washington Post:
What To Do If You Hit Your Head
Falling and hitting your head will be scary. In the second, it may be troublesome to determine how critical your damage is, what you must do subsequent and what signs would possibly sign a attainable emergency. A blow to the top could cause a traumatic mind damage (TBI), bleeding within the mind, a concussion or a contusion (a bruise on the mind). But fast motion may also help mitigate a few of the most critical potential outcomes. Here is tips on how to assess your private danger degree after a extreme head damage, and when it is advisable name for fast assist. (Abramson, 7/4)
The Washington Post:
Bruce Murray Spent Years Heading The Ball. He Worries It Took A Toll
Bruce Murray remembers each micro element from the 1990 World Cup: scoring a aim, aiding on one other and, with a band of former school stars main the U.S. nationwide group, serving to put a mighty scare into Italy. … In latest years, although, Murray has forgotten to show off the ignition of his automobile earlier than coming into his Potomac townhouse. He has needed to remind himself that his two younger kids have been within the again seat. A light-weight drinker, he has gone on benders. He has checked himself in at a resort for no obvious motive. He misplaced his stability on a run alongside the C&O Canal, tumbling right into a tree and rolling into the water. At 56, Murray is among the many former athletes more likely to have power traumatic encephalopathy, or CTE, a degenerative mind illness present in individuals with a historical past of repetitive mind trauma. (Goff, 7/5)
In movie star information —
The New York Times:
How Common Is Pancreatitis After A Colonoscopy? Travis Barker’s Condition, Explained
Travis Barker, an American musician and drummer for the rock band Blink-182, was hospitalized on June 28 with pancreatitis, TMZ first reported. … It was initially reported that Barker not too long ago had a colonoscopy, main many to marvel if the 2 occasions have been linked. A colonoscopy is a sort of endoscopy process that’s used to look at the within of the gastrointestinal tract. Barker later clarified in a tweet that he had an endoscopy with a polyp elimination that “damaged a critical pancreatic drainage tube.” Here’s what it is advisable know. (Pasricha, 7/5)
The New York Times:
What To Know About Prosopagnosia, Brad Pitt’s Face Blindness Condition
The actor Brad Pitt stated in a latest interview that he has prosopagnosia, a uncommon neurological dysfunction generally known as face blindness. While Mr. Pitt, 58, has by no means been formally recognized with the situation, he stated in an interview with GQ that he had struggled for years to acknowledge individuals’s faces. In 2013, he advised Esquire that his incapacity to acknowledge individuals’s faces had turn out to be so extreme that he usually wished to isolate himself consequently. “That’s why I stay home,” he stated. (Blum, 7/6)
