Having 5 Or More Babies Increases Women’s Chance Of Being Diagnosed With Alzheimer’s By 70 Percent
The study also found that women who had experienced one or two incomplete pregnancies were much less likely to develop Alzheimer's than women who had never been pregnant. In other public health news: study backs up assumptions that children of lesbians have no difference in adulthood than others; CDC warns about another food-related illness; heart failure is on the decline but still more likely to strike women; and more.
CNN:
Birthing 5 Or More Babies May Increase Alzheimer's Risk, Study Finds
Women who have given birth five or more times may be 70% more likely to develop Alzheimer's later in life than those who have fewer births, according to a new study of more than 3,500 women in South Korea and Greece. Even women without dementia who had given birth five or more times scored lower on a commonly used cognitive test than those with fewer children. (LaMotte, 7/18)
Los Angeles Times:
Researchers Find No Difference Between Kids Raised By Two Moms And Kids Raised By Mom And Dad
The kids aren’t kids anymore. And they’re still all right. The children of a first generation of lesbian women to take family-building into their own hands and conceive children through sperm donation are young adults now. And on Wednesday, the New England Journal of Medicine published new findings from the first study to comprehensively track those children’s mental health trajectories and compare them to those of kids in other U.S. households.y (Healy, 7/18)
The Washington Post:
CDC Warns Against Eating This Pasta Salad. It Has Already Sickened 21 People.
Now it's a certain pasta salad that consumers shouldn't be eating. Consumers should avoid a spring pasta salad sold in 244 of Hy-Vee grocery stores in Iowa, Illinois, Missouri, Kansas, Nebraska, South Dakota, Minnesota and Wisconsin, according to federal health officials. Of the 21 people who have been sickened thus far by salmonella infections linked to the salad, five have been hospitalized. No deaths have been reported. (Sun, 7/18)
The New York Times:
Heart Failure May Be More Lethal In Women
The incidence of heart failure has declined overall in both sexes in recent years and remains higher in men. But women are more likely to die from the disease. A study in the Canadian Medical Association Journal included 90,707 new diagnoses of heart failure among Ontario residents from 2009 to 2014. Almost 17 percent of women died within a year of follow-up, compared with just under 15 percent of men. Rates of hospitalization decreased over the study period in men and increased in women. (Bakalar, 7/18)
CNN:
Having A Working Mom Benefits Kids Later In Life, Study Says
Growing up with a working mom may have some benefits for both daughters and sons later in life. A team of researchers from the United States and the United Kingdom analyzed data on more than 100,000 men and women across 29 countries to determine whether a mother's employment status has any link to her children's outcomes in adulthood. (Howard, 7/18)
Marketplace:
Got A Cold Or The Flu? Think Twice About Antibiotics
A new study published in JAMA Internal Medicine has found urgent care centers are prescribing antibiotics to nearly half of patients with colds or the flu. Generally antibiotics are effective against bacterial infections like pneumonia. ... Medical researchers worry inappropriate prescribing of antibiotics can harm individual patients and contribute to the growing problem of bacterial resistance or what’s commonly called super bugs. (Gorenstein, 7/18)
The New York Times:
A 4-Day Workweek? A Test Run Shows A Surprising Result
A New Zealand firm that let its employees work four days a week while being paid for five says the experiment was so successful that it hoped to make the change permanent. The firm, Perpetual Guardian, which manages trusts, wills and estates, found the change actually boosted productivity among its 240 employees, who said they spent more time with their families, exercising, cooking, and working in their gardens. (Graham-McLay, 7/19)
