Author: Erin Elizabeth

Sadly, the National Library of Medicine will be retiring its PedMed Health website on October 31st, 2018 (Halloween is an interesting choice for shutting down a helpful website) as to “consolidate” similar resources and make information easier to find. While this might not seem like that big of a deal, I’m concerned about the information they may no longer provide; what will be missing from “the same or similar content” they provide via PubMed, MedlinePlus, and Bookshelf? “PubMed Health content falls into two general categories: consumer health resources and systematic reviews/comparative effectiveness research (CER). A similar range of consumer health information to that in PubMed...

C-sections are sometimes inevitable and often necessary to save the lives of mother and baby. However, elective C-section have skyrocketed in that last three decades increasing respiratory problems, obesity and altering a baby’s microbiome influencing allergies and asthma later in life. New evidence shows they also cause altered patterns of cell death across the brain acute effects on human neurodevelopment that may lead to long-lasting changes in the brain and behavior. The rate of cesarean section (C-section) delivery worldwide far exceeds the World Health Organization’s recommended rate. C-section delivery has now been linked to behavioral effects in offspring. Human...