#health_news

[nedsecondline]

More U.S. military families turning to food banks - UPI.com

About one in eight military families are turning to food banks and community pantries to make ends meet and feed their children, a new study finds. — Read on www.upi.com/Health_News/2023/11/10/military-families-food-banks/3851699627372/

[glorioustidalwavedefendor]

The AAP recommends a behavioral therapy technique called "parent training in behavior management," or PTBM, as first-line treatment for ADHD kids ages 4 and 5.

(...)

Instead, parents often are given general advice that wouldn't be out of place in any well-child visit -- cut back on sugar, establish good habits and limit screen time.

In fact, more preschoolers were prescribed ADHD medications than were referred for PTBM therapy, even though AAP guidelines say drugs should be considered only if behavior therapy doesn't provide significant improvement.

"The reason [PTBM] is recommended is based on evidence. There's more evidence for its effectiveness when we compare it to medications," said lead researcher Dr. Yair Bannett, an instructor of developmental-behavioral pediatrics at Stanford University School of Medicine.

PTBM therapy focuses on parents, rather than their child with ADHD.

Parents undergo training that teaches them skills and strategies in positive reinforcement, structure and consistent discipline, as well as positive ways to interact and communicate with their child, according to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

“Most newly diagnosed kids with ADHD not getting best care, study says”

https://www.upi.com/Health_News/2021/10/19/Most-newly-diagnosed-kids-with-ADHD-not-getting-best-care-study-says/4521634673937/

“kids who use screens a lot are more likely to be diagnosed with ADHD”

have you considered that maybe a novelty-seeking brain (as seen with ADHD) is more likely to seek that novelty through devices?

have you considered that ADHD is something you’re born with, and not something you’re given as a punishment for lack of discipline?

have you considered that you should shut the fuck up?

[focusonthegoodnews]

Not being isolated helps people with COPD maintain good mental health

Not being isolated helps people with COPD maintain good mental health

https://www.upi.com/Health_News/2022/12/13/COPD-mental-health/9651670940799/

[kidshealthbuddy]

Celiac Disease – Causes & Symptoms

Celiac disease is a serious condition in which the gluten consumption causes damage & swelling of the small intestine. Basically, gluten refers to a protein found in grains like barley, wheat, and rye, etc. This inflammation is mainly caused due to triggering of an immune reaction in the small intestines.

[newsreportnews]

अगर आपके घर और परिवार में भी किसी को तंबाकू की लत है तो आज हम आपको बताने जा रहे हैं कुछ ऐसे आसान उपाय, जिससे आप तंबाकू खाने की लत को छोड़ सकते हैं।

[glorioustidalwavedefendor]

You know, the thing I don’t get is, with ADHD they have realized that training the parenst isthe best way to help the kid:

“The AAP recommends a behavioral therapy technique called "parent training in behavior management," or PTBM, as first-line treatment for ADHD kids ages 4 and 5.”

https://www.upi.com/Health_News/2021/10/19/Most-newly-diagnosed-kids-with-ADHD-not-getting-best-care-study-says/4521634673937/

So ... why not do the same for the parenst of autistic kids?

Just tell them that a shower might feel like needles to the kid ... so instead of breaking the kid in to submission just try something different ... maybe a bath works better ... or a sponge bath with a realyl soft flanel ... or maybe just let the kid sometimes stay dirty (except for hands and teeth*) it will not die if you don’t house it down twice a day with an induytr cleaner ... promis ...

Like tell the parenst that talking is hard and that it is perfectly acceptable for the child to use gestures or one of those speech boxes ... or both

Tell them that sometimes it’s just a bad day and nothing works and autistic kids are allowed to have those too. Like, everyone has bad days ...

Just tell the parenst that it is O.K.

It is O.K.

*Yeah I know that is an issue too because of sensory issues, but a dentist intervening is even worse (going to a doctor strage smells, strangers, weird tols, needles etc ... ) ... so that is something where a solution should be found in some way shape or form ... how ever that form looks in the end, as long as it involves more or less clean teeth and more or less clean hands

There are all kinds of options these days

https://www.tumblr.com/glorioustidalwavedefendor/706383912182644736

Just throw it all to the wall and see what sticks ...

Let’s talk about ABA therapy. ABA posts outside this thread will be removed.: autism

A whole Reddit for discussing why Applied Behavioral Analysis is awful and should never be used in any form because we're not dogs and even dogs shouldn't be trained like that? Sounds good.

[thatadhdfeel]

In relation to the post you made 6 days ago where you shared an image of a newsite making the claim that calm parents can help calm kids with adhd, everywhere i have looked i struggle to find anything related to a study which could inspire such an article, that said i found webmd which listed a source(Alexander Fiks, M.D., associate professor, pediatrics, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia; Theodore Beauchaine, Ph.D., professor, psychology, Ohio State University, Columbus; Nov. 7, 2017,Clinical Psychological Science) but all research I’ve done in relation the source reveals no study, so now I’m coming to you, the original blog which made me start looking into this claim, to ask you if you could source the study for me, given how all research I’ve done has revealed none which would mean, while i do believe the claim to be real, you are the blog which i saw make the original claim and so now i would hope you source your claim so as to strengthen our ability to help people with ADHD.

the post is actually very old but sure https://www.upi.com/Health_News/2017/11/17/Calm-parents-can-help-kids-with-ADHD-master-their-emotions-behaviors/2461510923430/

[nedsecondline]

Bionic hand integrates with Swedish woman's nerves, bones, muscles By

www.upi.com/Health_News/2023/10/13/bionic-hand-bone-nervous-system/6851697135586/

[mrstrashbags]

Information from InconvenientNews

Texas has highest maternal mortality rate in developed world

As the Republican-led state legislature has slashed funding to reproductive healthcare clinics, the maternal mortality rate doubled over just a two-year period

https://www.npr.org/2017/05/12/527806002/focus-on-infants-during-childbirth-leaves-u-s-moms-in-danger

(How California solved the problem with policy, science, and regulations: https://www.reddit.com/r/LosAngeles/comments/plwz1e/los_angeles_voted_most_expensive_inconvenient_and/hcenlcf/

Mothers who live in areas with heavy oil and gas developments have between a 40 percent and 70 percent greater chance of giving birth to babies with congenital heart defects

https://www.upi.com/Health_News/2019/07/18/Study-links-congenital-heart-disease-to-oil-gas-development/2461563465617/

More Texas data from the Texas committee that used to research these

#2 in uninsured children

#3 in population living in food insecurity/hunger

#1 in hazardous waste generated

#1 in population uninsured and Texas also opts its residents out of the free federal Medicaid expansion to any states willing to take it that Texas turns down for its citizens: https://www.reddit.com/r/texas/comments/njagsn/texas_has_16_billion_in_coronavirus_aid_money/gz77y0j/

#1 in executions

#4 in teen pregnancy

#4 in percentage of women living in poverty

#47 in voter registration

#50 in spending on mental health

#50 in percent of women receiving prenatal care

#50 in percent of women with health insurance

#50 in voter participation

#50 in welfare benefits (while #1 in getting Federal aid dollars U.S. House approves billions more for Harvey relief, measure now heads to Senate, voting against Federal aid for others "Here's the vote for Hurricane Sandy aid. 179 of the 180 no votes were Republicans... at least 20 Texas Republicans" voted no, with the aid going to white and wealthier Texans or to Texas' prison industry and private toll road companies)

(Texas was #51 in these when including DC, not just #50)

[pro-birth]

Have some good news for your Friday!!!

“The improvements in care have led to increases in overall survival among babies born prematurely, and that in-hospital mortality for preterm infants is comparable among racial and ethnic groups, researchers report in the study, published in JAMA Network Open.”

[arcticdementor]

Jan. 20 (UPI) -- Rates of methamphetamine overdose deaths in the United States increased five-fold from 2011 to 2018, according to an analysis published Wednesday by JAMA Psychiatry.

Methamphetamine-involved deaths rose, on average, by nearly 30% per year in the general population across the country between 2011 and 2018, the data showed.

…

Operated by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the National Vital Statistics System tracks all births and deaths nationally.

Between 2011 and 2018, rates of methamphetamine-involved deaths nationally increased from 1.8 to 10.1 per 100,000 men and from 0.8 to 4.5 per 100,000 women, the data showed.

Over the eight-year period studied, overdose deaths increased by an average of 29% per year for men and 28% per year for women, according to the researchers.

Non-Hispanic American Indians or Alaska Natives had the highest number of overdose deaths, as they increased from 5.6 to 26.4 per 100,000 men and from 3.6 to 15.6 per 100,000 women, or about a 25%-per-year rise, the researchers said.

Non-Hispanic Whites had the second highest number, as they rose from 2.2 to 12.6 per 100,000 men and from 1.1 to 6.2 per 100,000 women, a nearly 30%-per-year increase, according to the researchers.

[intelligentchristianlady]

And this is why we can’t have nice things for at least the next year...

[stephanieo85]

Healthy lifestyle can lower dementia risk, study finds - UPI.com

Based upon a UUUGE study.