Conception During IUD Use Increases Risks of Preterm Delivery and Low Birth Weight Babies Women who conceive while using an intrauterine contraceptive device (IUD) have a greater risk of preterm delivery, low birth weight babies, bacterial infections, or losing a fetus, according to researchers at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev (BGU) and the Soroka University Medical Center. The research will be presented at the Society for Maternal-Fetal Medicine's 38th Annual Pregnancy Meeting in Dallas, Texas on January 29 to February 3. "We believe this is the first report tracking children born to mothers using an IUD over a long timeframe," says Dr. Gali Pariente, a faculty member of the BGU Division of Obstetrics and Gynecology, BGU Faculty of Health Sciences and a clinical instructor at Soroka. "Working with a large sample over 23 years allowed us to investigate obstetric parameters that hadn't been examined previously in large groups." IUDs are the most popular form of reversible contraception worldwide. Nearly as effective as sterilization, yet not as permanent, they are the preferred birth control method for 23 percent of female contraceptive users, according to a 2015 United Nations report on world contraceptive use. Read More |
Depression in Black Adolescents Requires Different Treatment Black adolescents express depressive symptoms differently than people from other age and racial groups, requiring that clinicians take this into account when developing treatment plans, according to a new study led by a Rutgers University-Camden researcher. "Adolescent depression is a dire public concern in the United States, and even greater concern among Black adolescents, where, if left untreated, can disproportionately lead to an escalation of various mental disorders, academic failure, and related issues," says Wenhua Lu, an assistant professor of childhood studies at Rutgers University-Camden. Lu and fellow researchers Michael Lindsey of New York University, Sireen Irsheild of University of Chicago, and Von Eugene Nebbitt of Washington University examine the conceptualization of depression among Black adolescents and make recommendations for improving treatment in the study, "Psychometric Properties of the CES-D Among Black Adolescents in Public Housing," newly published in the November 2017 issue of the Journal of the Society for Social Work and Research. Read More |
Untreated ADHD Increases Risk of Sexually Transmitted Infections (STIs) A recent study published in The Journal of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry points to an important reason to consider seeking treatment for attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD): prevention of sexually transmitted infections (STIs) - for men, at least. As diagnoses of ADHD become more and more common, many patients and parents are concerned about overmedication and are reluctant to treat the disorder. Some receive only behavioral therapy, while many don't seek any treatment at all. The 3 primary characteristics of ADHD are hyperactivity, inattention and impulsivity. Together, these characteristics can lead to problematic and potentially dangerous decision-making. Recent studies suggest an association between an ADHD diagnosis and an increased risk of developing substance abuse disorders or STIs, however, the studies used small samples and yielded mixed results. Read More |

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France Faces Down its Outdated Notions about Autism Behind the brightly colored walls of FuturoSchool's main hallway, in a small, cozy cubicle, Samy Sajidi is meeting with his counselor. Sajidi has autism and attends the school part-time. Since November 2016, he has also worked as a sales assistant at a clothing store - and so far, he tells his counselor, the job is going well. It's 3 p.m. on a Wednesday in October, and there are just four students present, including Sajidi, 27 - because this is no ordinary school. Occupying a modest space on the first floor of a quiet residential building in Paris, FuturoSchool is among the first schools in France to focus on providing applied behavioral analysis (ABA) for people with autism. Its eight other pupils, who also receive occupational therapy and speech therapy, are in lessons at nearby mainstream schools or away at activities such as music classes, swimming or judo. After their session is done, Sajidi and his counselor step out of the cubicle and walk toward an open space in the center of the school. It's filled with colorful equipment: giant exercise balls, gym mats, a ball pit. Sajidi and his counselor pick up tennis rackets and hit a ball back and forth, their laughter floating across the room. Read More |
For People Living with Disabilities, New Products Prove Both Practical and Stylish then buying a pair of shoes, a pen, or a new car-the expectation is for the product to do the job. But you also want it to look good: stylish, current, cool. Why wouldn't the same be true of products-wheelchairs, hearing aids, and more-designed to aid those with disabilities? This is one of the major questions explored in the new exhibition "Access+Ability," on view at the Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum through September 3 of this year. The show, which features more than 70 works, from an aerodynamic racing wheelchair to a vibration-activated shirt that allows the deaf to experience sounds, covers the wide range of innovations occurring in accessible design. It reflects how designers creating products for those with disabilities are making them not just increasingly functional and practical, but stylish. "Why not be able to change the color of your prosthetic leg to match your style, your taste, your outfit?" asks Cara McCarty, director of curatorial at Cooper Hewitt, who co-curated the exhibition with Rochelle Steiner, curator and professor of Critical Studies at the University of Southern California. "You can dress it up, dress it down." Read More |
For Some with Intellectual Disabilities, Ending Abuse Starts with Sex Education In the sex education class for adults with intellectual disabilities, the material is not watered down. The dozen women and men in a large room full of windows and light in Casco, Maine, take on complex issues, such as how to break up or how you know you're in an abusive relationship. And the most difficult of those issues is sexual assault. Katy Park, the teacher, begins the class with a phrase they've memorized: "My body is my own," Park starts as the rest join in, "and I get to decide what is right for me." People with intellectual disabilities are sexually assaulted at a rate more than seven times that for people without disabilities. NPR asked the U.S. Department of Justice to use data it had collected, but had not published, to calculate that rate. At a moment when Americans are talking about sexual assault and sexual harassment, a yearlong NPR investigation finds that people with intellectual disabilities are one of the most at-risk groups in America. Read More |
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Different Types of ADHD Are Rooted In Different Areas of the Brain, Study Says A recent brain imaging study suggests that different ADHD subtypes each originate in a distinct part of the brain, and may in fact be separate disorders. The results, if replicated, would challenge long-standing beliefs that ADHD is one disorder with several common variations, and may open the door to more personalized treatment strategies, the study's authors said. The study, published last year in Biological Psychiatry: Cognitive Neuroscience and Neuroimaging, examined 117 adolescents between the ages of 12 and 17 who had been diagnosed with ADHD. Initially, researchers tested each child's executive functions and tendency towards immediate rewards, and used the results to divide them into 3 groups: one that struggled solely with executive functions, one that struggled with both executive functions and reward management, and a third that performed similarly to children without ADHD on both tests. Each child then underwent an fMRI scan. Read More |
Why Amazon's Alexa Is 'Life Changing' for the Blind Bill Boules, blind since birth, has three Amazon Echos at his home in the suburbs of Washington, D.C. and says they've been "life changing." Boules, 42, bought the smart speaker as soon as it came out and found that right away it helped him more easily access audio content on the web. Previously, he had to use a screen reader, which is software that orally announces the contents of a web page. "The Echo is definitely a game changer," Boules tells PCMag. "You can get the information much faster, at least 10 times faster." Read More |

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