Women's Health Care of New England

10/07/2020

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08/26/2020

08/18/2020

Women's Healthcare of New England is open and operating according to the CDC guidelines. We look forward to seeing you for regular exams and special appointments.

For more information: https://www.whcnewengland.com/be-smart-stay-calm

08/18/2020

Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19)

Women’s Healthcare of New England is seeing patients and actively screening each patient to ensure they do not expose our office or patient community to any illness. If you have a medical emergency, please do not show up at our office or at the hospital, but instead call ahead and find out the recommended course of action.

Following appropriate guidelines and practicing proper technique will benefit both patients and clinicians and better prevent the further spread of the COVID-19 virus.

The most important thing to do is to remain calm and think clearly. Key guidelines to stay safe:
• Wear a mask
• Limit your interactions, and keep a 6 foot distance from others.
• Wash your hands (for at least 20 seconds) often throughout the day
• Don’t touch your face
• Keep surfaces clean

These steps will help to reduce the spread of the virus and hopefully prevent further exposure in uninfected individuals.

On a larger scale, the government’s response to the coronavirus (COVID-19) outbreak is constantly evolving, we recommend that you stay up-to-date on information from verified sources. Learn more online from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/index.html

State of Connecticut https://portal.ct.gov/Coronavirus. By phone, you may contact 1-800-CDC-INFO, call 2-1-1, or text “CTCOVID” to 898211 for more information. To receive updates about the virus and how the government is responding to it, you may subscribe to the CDC’s Subscription Service https://www.cdc.gov/Other/emailupdates/.

Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) is a virus (more specifically, a coronavirus) identified as the cause of an outbreak of respiratory illness first detected in Wuhan, China.

03/20/2020

Women’s Healthcare of New England is postponing routine examinations, but is still accepting appointments for obstetrical patients and certain non-routine gyn patients. If you have a medical emergency, please do not show up at our office or at the hospital, but instead call ahead and find out the recommended course of action.

Following appropriate guidelines and practicing proper technique will benefit both patients and clinicians and better prevent the further spread of the COVID-19 virus.

The most important thing to do is to remain calm and think clearly. Key guidelines to stay safe:
• Wash your hands (for at least 20 seconds) often throughout the day
• Don’t touch your face
• Limit your interactions, and keep a 4-6 foot distance from others.
• Keep surfaces clean

These steps will help to reduce the spread of the virus and hopefully prevent further exposure in uninfected individuals.

On a larger scale, the government’s response to the coronavirus (COVID-19) outbreak is constantly evolving, we recommend that you stay up-to-date on information from verified sources. Learn more online from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/index.html

State of Connecticut https://portal.ct.gov/Coronavirus. By phone, you may contact 1-800-CDC-INFO, call 2-1-1, or text “CTCOVID” to 898211 for more information. To receive updates about the virus and how the government is responding to it, you may subscribe to the CDC’s Subscription Service https://www.cdc.gov/Other/emailupdates/.

03/09/2020

Coronavirus | Home | CDC

https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/index.html

CDC Coronavirus: Coronaviruses are common throughout the world. They can infect people and animals. Five different coronaviruses can infect people and make them sick. They usually cause mild to moderate upper-respiratory illness.

03/09/2020

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11/05/2019

Researchers Reveal Kids Who Get More Hugs Have More Developed Brains

Researchers Reveal Kids Who Get More Hugs Have More Developed Brains

All parents out there who cannot keep their arms off their kids are on the right path, and their children will thank them for it one day. Namely, researchers have found that hugging, as a form of physical affection, during the developmental period of the baby, is extremely important. The affection s...

08/21/2019

Pink and blue tsunami

From tutus to trucks, parents are often struck by the gendered choices made by their children. Could these be ‘hardwired’?
Edited by Pam Weintraub

If anything characterizes the 21st-century social signaling of s*x differences, it is the increased emphasis on ‘pink for girls and blue for boys’, with female ‘pinkification’ probably carrying the most strident message. Clothes, toys, birthday cards, wrapping paper, party invitations, computers, phones, bedrooms, bicycles – you name it, the marketing people seem prepared to ‘pinkify’ it. The ‘pink problem’, now quite often with a hefty helping of ‘princess’ thrown in, has been the subject of concerned discussion in the past decade or so. Read More: s-pink-for-girls-and-blue-for-boys-biology-or-conditioning?

08/21/2019

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05/07/2019

F.D.A. Won’t Ban Sales of Textured Breast Implants Linked to Cancer

F.D.A. Won’t Ban Sales of Textured Breast Implants Linked to Cancer
By: Denise Grady and Roni Caryn Rabin

A type of breast implant linked to rare cancer can still be sold in the United States, even though it has been banned in many other countries, the Food and Drug Administration said on Thursday.

The implants, which have a textured or slightly roughened surface, as opposed to a smooth covering, have been associated with cancer of the immune system called anaplastic large-cell lymphoma. Read More:https://www.nytimes.com/2019/05/02

Many other countries have already banned the products. But the U.S. agency said the risk was still low, despite repeated requests from women and doctors that the implants be removed from the market.

04/02/2019

How to Minimize Exposures to Hormone Disrupters

How to Minimize Exposures to Hormone Disrupters
Experts say adults and children alike can benefit from avoiding canned goods and certain plastics and substituting natural products for commercial cleaning products.

By Perri Klass, M.D.
April 1, 2019
“We tend to think hormone disrupters are a mom and baby issue,” said Dr. Leonardo Trasande, the chief of the division of environmental pediatrics at N.Y.U. School of Medicine. “But it literally can be a life and death matter for folks who are not even trying to have a family.”

Dr. Trasande is one of the doctors I work with in the pediatric clinic at Bellevue Hospital, and the author of “Sicker, Fatter, Poorer: the Urgent Threat of Hormone-Disrupting Chemicals to Our Health and Future … and What We Can Do About It.” Read More: https://www.nytimes.com/2019/04/01/well/family/how-to-minimize-exposures-to-hormone-disrupters.html

Experts say adults and children alike can benefit from avoiding canned goods and certain plastics and substituting natural products for commercial cleaning products.

03/14/2019

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03/08/2019

Powerful stories of women around the world: Live updates

Powerful stories of women around the world: Live updates

On International Women's Day 2019, we are gathering inspiring stories from around the globe. Follow them here.

03/04/2019

Dear All,
Women's Health care of New England will be open at 11:00.
Please stay safe and Warm.

01/14/2019

My (Imagined) Career And Life Coaching Session With Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg

My (Imagined) Career And Life Coaching Session With Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg

Put your political perspective and pop culture fandom aside. Regardless of how you feel about her legal rulings, Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg may have some wise advice to offer those who might be married, getting older or a minority. Here is what I imagine she would say.

11/28/2018

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11/09/2018

Excerpt: Ruth Bader Ginsburg on the power of ‘difficult women’

Excerpt: Ruth Bader Ginsburg on the power of ‘difficult women’

The Notorious R.B.G.'s influence on American politics and modern culture has been an inspiration for women in the United States and throughout the world.

10/01/2018

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09/04/2018

Scientists Are Retooling Bacteria to Cure Disease

Scientists Are Retooling Bacteria to Cure Disease

By manipulating DNA, researchers are trying to create microbes that, once ingested, work to treat a rare genetic condition — a milestone in synthetic biology.

In a study carried out over the summer, a group of volunteers drank a white, peppermint-ish concoction laced with billions of bacteria. The microbes had been engineered to break down a naturally occurring toxin in the blood.

The vast majority of us can do this without any help. But for those who cannot, these microbes may someday become a living medicine.

The trial marks an important milestone in a promising scientific field known as synthetic biology. Two decades ago, researchers started to tinker with living things the way engineers tinker with electronics. Read More:https://www.nytimes.com/2018/09/04/health/synthetic-biology-pku.html

By manipulating DNA, researchers are trying to create microbes that, once ingested, work to treat a rare genetic condition — a milestone in synthetic biology.

08/28/2018

Breast-Feeding Mothers Should Avoid Ma*****na, Pediatricians Say

Breast-Feeding Mothers Should Avoid Ma*****na, Pediatricians Say:
Aug. 27, 2018

Ma*****na is more widely available than ever, but what does it do to babies?

There’s no answer to that yet, but nursing mothers are being warned to avoid it: Traces of the drug can show up in breast milk, according to the American Academy of Pediatrics.

Tetrahydrocannabinol, or THC, the psychoactive ingredient in ma*****na that gets people high, can be detected in breast milk up to six days after use of the drug, according to a study published on Monday by the journal Pediatrics. Read more:https://www.nytimes.com/2018/08/27/health/ma*****na-breast-milk

A new study showed that chemical traces of ma*****na can be detected in breast milk up to six days after use, highlighting the need for research into the effect of pot on babies.

08/28/2018

Immunotherapy Drugs Slow Skin Cancer That Has Spread to the Brain

Immunotherapy Drugs Slow Skin Cancer That Has Spread to the Brain
Aug. 22, 2018

A new study offers a glint of hope to people in a desperate situation: Patients with melanoma, the most serious form of skin cancer, that has spread to the brain.

A combination of two drugs that activate the immune system shrank brain tumors in many melanoma patients and prolonged life in a study of 94 people at 28 medical centers in the United States. The drugs were ipilimumab (brand name Yervoy) and nivolumab (Opdivo), and they belong to a class called checkpoint inhibitors.

Melanoma is more likely than most cancers to spread to the brain, and once it gets there, fewer than 20 percent of patients survive one year with traditional treatments, according to Dr. Hussein A. Tawbi, the first author of the study and an associate professor of melanoma medical oncology at the MD Anderson Cancer Center in Houston.

But in the study, 82 percent were still alive after a year. Read more:https://www.nytimes.com/2018/08/22/health/melanoma-immunotherapy-brain

Drugs that activate the immune system shrank tumors and prolonged life among patients with an aggressive form of melanoma, a small study shows.

07/18/2018

3-D Color X-Rays Could Help Spot Deadly Disease Without Surgery

3-D Color X-Rays Could Help Spot Deadly Disease Without Surgery

A new medical scanner, derived from technology used by particle physics researchers at CERN, “is like the upgrade from black-and-white film to color,” one of its developers said. Emily Baumgaertner

Researchers in New Zealand have captured three-dimensional color X-rays of the human body, using an innovative tool that may eventually help diagnose cancers and blood diseases without invasive surgery.

The new scanner has its origins in a tool that contributed to research into the universe’s fundamental particles and functions much like a camera. It counts subatomic particles as they meet pixels when its electronic shutter is open. That allows it to generate high-resolution images of soft tissues, including minute disease markers. Read More:
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/07/17/health/3d-color-xrays-

A new medical scanner, derived from technology used by particle physics researchers at CERN, “is like the upgrade from black-and-white film to color,” one of its developers said.

07/18/2018

CRISPR Makes Cancer Cells Turncoats That Attack Their Tumor

The experimental approach showed promise across three types of malignancies in mice

As an idea for wiping out cancer, it could have been ripped from the pages of a spy thriller: Take cancer cells that have departed the original tumor and spread elsewhere in the body, genome-edit them to be stone-cold killers, then wait for the homesick cells to return and make like émigré assassins.

In a study four years in the making, scientists reported on Wednesday that “rehoming” cells that had been CRISPR’d to attack cells in the original tumor improved survival in lab mice with brain cancer, as well as in mice with breast cancer that spread to the brain. Read More:https://www.scientificamerican.com

The experimental approach showed promise across three types of malignancies in mice

07/10/2018

Opposition to Breast-Feeding Resolution by U.S. Stuns World Health Officials

Opposition to Breast-Feeding Resolution by U.S. Stuns World Health Officials:
A resolution to encourage breast-feeding was expected to be approved quickly and easily by the hundreds of government delegates who gathered this spring in Geneva for the United Nations-affiliated World Health Assembly.

Based on decades of research, the resolution says that mother’s milk is healthiest for children and countries should strive to limit the inaccurate or misleading marketing of breast milk substitutes.

Then the United States delegation, embracing the interests of infant formula manufacturers, upended the deliberations.
Read More:www.nytimes.com/2018/07/08/health/world

Trade sanctions. Withdrawal of military aid. The Trump administration used both to try to block a measure that was considered uncontroversial and embraced by countries around the world.

06/19/2018

Smarter, Not Harder: How to Succeed at Work

Smarter, Not Harder: How to Succeed at Work:
We each have 96 energy blocks each day to spend however we'd like. Using this energy blocking system will ensure you're spending each block wisely to make the most progress on your most important goals.

Warren Buffett “ruled out paying attention to almost anything but business—art, literature, science, travel, architecture—so that he could focus on his passion,” wrote Alice Schroder in her book The Snowball. This isn’t unique to Warren Buffett. Almost all of the successful people I know follow a similar approach to focusing their efforts.

The key to better outcomes is not working harder. Most of us already work long hours. We take work home, we’re always on, we tackle anything we’re asked to do, and we do it to the best of our ability. It doesn’t seem to matter how many things we check off our to-do lists or how many hours we work, though; our performance doesn’t seem to improve. Read More:https://www.fs.blog/2018/06/succeed-at-work/

We each have 96 energy blocks each day to spend however we'd like. Using this energy blocking system will ensure you're spending each block wisely.

06/14/2018

24 years ago, Carson Einarsen was delivered to the world by Dr. Thomas Ayoub. Carson recently came by the office to say hello! The best part is: the two gentlemen share the same birthday!

06/13/2018

Don't Touch! A Scientist's Advice For Spotting Poison Ivy Before It Ruins Your Summer

Don't Touch! A Scientist's Advice For Spotting Poison Ivy Before It Ruins Your Summer:

It was a close encounter in 2012 that made microbiologist John Jelesko take an interest in poison ivy.

The Virginia Tech professor was cutting up a downed tree with an electric chainsaw. What he didn't realize was that his power cable had been dragging through poison ivy. So at the end of the day, as he coiled the cord around his palm and elbow, he inadvertently launched a career-bending science experiment.

"Within 48 hours, I had your classic case of poison ivy on my arm. And as a scientist, I said, 'This is interesting, how bad can it be? I'll just leave this untreated,' " he recalls, sheepishly. "In about two weeks, I had learned just how uncomfortable poison ivy rash could be." Read more:
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06/04/2018

Good News for Women With Breast Cancer: Many Don’t Need Chemo

Good News for Women With Breast Cancer: Many Don’t Need Chemo

Many women with early-stage forms of the disease can forego chemo, based on a test that measures the activity of genes involved in breast cancer recurrence.

05/29/2018

How to Minimize the Risk of Food Poisoning

How to Minimize the Risk of Food Poisoning.

The year is not yet half over and already there have been seven documented multistate outbreaks of food poisoning. The latest involved eggs in their shells containing salmonella and packaged chopped romaine lettuce contaminated with the especially dangerous “hamburger bug” E. coli 0157:H7.

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said the romaine outbreak involved 172 people sickened across 32 states, with one death. Read more: https://www.nytimes.com/2018/05/28/well/how-to-minimize-the-risk-of-food

You can protect yourself up to a point if you take proper precautions with the foods you purchase.