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Inside a Kenyan Maternity Ward Being Starved by US Foreign Aid Cuts

The Trump administration's decision to cut funding for World Food Program operations has left families desperate.

https://murica.website/2025/12/inside-a-kenyan-maternity-ward-being-starved-by-us-foreign-aid-cuts/

Inside a Kenyan Maternity Ward Being Starved by US Foreign Aid Cuts – The USA Potato

Howard Smith MD, AM Nov 30, 2023

Cannabis During Pregnancy Triggers Complications:
Pregnant women using cannabis in any form face higher risk of a preterm birth, a baby with a low birth weight, and the need for a neonatal intensive care stay. #cannabis #pregnancy #lowbirthweight #prematurity #NICU
https://www.instagram.com/p/C0Qk0VGrXEc/

CPIPR Sep 20, 2023

U.S.-born Black Minnesotans who experienced greater segregation, and wider inequalities in education, income, employment, and incarceration were more likely to have premature or low birth weight babies. Improving birth outcomes requires a multisectoral approach. #NICHDImpact #HealthDisparities #Segregation #Income #Neighborhoods #Minnesota #Incarceration #Premature #LowBirthWeight
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35468220

Multidimensional structural racism predicts birth outcomes for Black and White Minnesotans - PubMed

Multidimensional structural racism increases the risks of adverse birth outcomes for US-born Black Minnesotans. Policy interventions to dismantle structural racism and eliminate birth inequities must be multi-sectoral as changes in one or a few dimensions, but not all, will unlikely reduce birth ine …

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CPIPR Sep 9, 2023

Women living in a predominantly Black neighborhood gave birth to infants that weighted less, on average, than women living neighborhoods where less than 75% of the residents were Black. #HealthDisparities #LowBirthWeight #RacialSegregation #Neighborhoods #NICHImpact
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34378455

Measuring the Effect of Neighborhood Racial Segregation on Fetal Growth - PubMed

Prior studies of neighborhood racial segregation and intrauterine growth have not accounted for confounding factors in early life. We used the Life-Course Influences on Fetal Environment Study of births to Black women in metropolitan Detroit, 2009-2011, (<i>N</i> = 1,408) to examine whether health a …

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OsteoarthriticAutistic Jul 5, 2023

Sight-saving drug to be offered to premature babies, announces NHS | The Independent
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/health/nhs-newborn-sight-retinopathy-drug-b2368855.html

#RetinopathyOfPrematurity
#ROP
#Retinopathy
#PrematureBabies
#Sight
#NHS
#LowBirthWeight
#Retina
#Ranibizumab
#VascularEndothelialGrowthFactor

Sight-saving drug to be offered to premature babies, announces NHS

The NHS screens babies for the condition retinopathy of prematurity

The Independent

CPIPR Mar 14, 2023

New evidence: incarceration of birth fathers during pregnancy increases their child’s risk of premature birth, low birthweight, small size, and NICU admission.

#LowBirthweight #MassIncarceration #Incarceration #Fathers #NICHDimpact

CPIPR Dec 17, 2022

Women living in a predominantly Black neighborhood gave birth to infants that weighted less, on average, than women living neighborhoods where less than 75% of the residents were Black.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34378455

#HealthDisparities #LowBirthWeight #RacialSegregation #NICHImpact #RacialDisparities #InfantHealth #Neighborhoods #ResidentialSegregation