Wednesday, December 19, 2018

What's new in midwifery - 19th December 2018


Some recent things you may need to know about.


Bereavement care in neonatal units



 

NICE consultations

NICE is consulting on infant, children and young people's experience of healthcare, looking at the experience of babies, children and young people, as well as looking for views of parents and carers.

The consultation closes on 18 January 2019.


In the news




Thank you for reading these posts.   I hope they have been useful.    The next one will be in 2019.  Until then, here is a carol from the Sheffield pub carol tradition, with my best wishes for a peaceful Christmas and New Year.


Acknowledgements: King’s Fund Library Health Management and Policy Alert; Embed Health Consortium Health Bulletin.



















Wednesday, December 12, 2018

What's new in midwifery - 12th December 2018

Some recent things you may need to know about.


FGM

Evidence to End FGM/C project’s Online Database of FGM/CProgrammes.   Provides information and shares a mapping of recently completed and ongoing interventions and research studies addressing female genital mutilation/cutting (FGM/C) since the year 2000.
Female genital mutilation: July2018 to September 2018, experimental statistics report

Formula milk

Disentangling ourselves from “Big Formula” (BMJ editorial)

Overdiagnosis and industry influence: how cow’s milk protein allergy is extending the reach of infant formula manufacturers (BMJ investigation)


Local Government Association

Fit for and during pregnancy: a key role for local government.  This report contains case studies of health visitors, family workers, midwives, social care and children’s centres staff helping families through pregnancy as well as areas experimenting with a new local government role of consultant public health midwife.


Acknowledgements
Healthcare Information for All discussion group; King’s Fund Library Health Management and Policy Alert; Embed Health Consortium Health Bulletin.

Friday, December 07, 2018

My pronouns

Previously on this blog, this, about preferred pronouns.   Back in March 2017, when I posted that, I reported that I had recently seen an email, the end of which was the statement:

"My pronouns are she/her/hers".


I see more of that now, including emails from some colleagues here, and some of my colleagues have badges like this, through the Students' Union:



Back in March 2017 I said:

"When talking about someone, for example, "go and talk to the librarian, and [pronoun] will help you", which pronoun do you use if you don't know the gender of that person?   If you use "he" or "she", that is gender specific and may not match the gender of the person.  "It" doesn't really work to refer to people.   I'd use "they".

But which pronouns would that person want used to refer to themselves?  That is what "my pronouns are..." is about.  Moves towards gender and transgender inclusion bring this issue to the foreground."


I think that still stands.   But why wear a badge?    I might think it is clear from looking at me what my preferred pronouns are, but actually why would it be?    To assume preferred pronouns is to jump to conclusions.    So, that is one reason for wearing it, to indicate what my pronouns actually are.    I think for me another reason is that it might make people I meet feel able to tell me what their preferred pronouns are, if they want to do that.   

Having thought that through, I now have a badge too.

Two resources, both present in March 2017 and still there now: 
poster from Vanderbilt University, which includes some alternative pronouns ze/zir/zirs and ze/hir/hirs and advice on how to find out which pronouns a person prefers.   And this from University of California Davis points to mypronouns.org, which goes into some detail and has "non binary, gender neutral" titles as well. 

Searches for "my pronouns are", or "preferred gender pronouns" limiting to site:.edu or site:.ac.uk find more.

Thursday, December 06, 2018

Books about HIV and AIDS


I was making a reading list about HIV and AIDS.   

What follows is an observation, not systematic research.

On the shelves we had:

  • ABC of AIDS / edited by Michael W. Adler, 2001.
  • The AIDS knowledge base : a textbook on HIV disease from the University of California, San Francisco, and San Francisco General Hospital / editors, P.T. Cohen, Merle A. Sande, Paul A. Volberding , 1999.
  • Aids and other manifestations of HIV infection / edited by Gary P. Wormser, 2004.
  • AIDS : etiology, diagnosis, treatment, and prevention, 1997.
  • HIV infection in women / Johnson, Margaret A., 1993.
  • HIV treatments directory / edited by Virginia Differding, 2010.


All old.   I can find no newer editions of most of them - there was a later edition of Adler (but 2012 - we have an ebook) and of Differding (2011).

We have newer but different things as ebooks (a reflection of the way we now acquire things).   Two of them involve Merle Sande or Paul Volberding, but nothing is newer than 2012.  I don't think there are newer editions of any of those either.



The Medical core collection has only a few items, (not including Adler’s ABC) but again nothing newer than 2012.

I feel confident in withdrawing most of the older print books, but I wonder if Johnson might still have material of relevance (amongst the material that is likely to be very out of date).    Perhaps this is a close equivalent, but it is also 2012.

In addition to books on the specific topic, there are also chapters in books like Schaechter’s mechanisms of microbial disease and Mandell Douglas and Bennett, the latest editions of which are a bit newer.

Why no new editions since 2012?    Perhaps there has been a stabilisation of knowledge and there has been nothing new to report since 2012.  Or perhaps newer editions are being prepared now.   It would be interesting to know if the same looks to be the case in other fields of medicine, or more specifically infectious diseases or sexual health.    But that is a subject for another post.

Wednesday, December 05, 2018

What's new in midwifery - 5th December 2018


Some recent things you might need to know about.

News

CRISPR babies STATNews

CRISPR babies - BMJ


Research

NIHR Signals
Steroids rapidly reduce children’s croup symptoms and shorten hospital stays (includes babies)(NIHR Signals review of a recent Cochrane review).


Hyperemesis gravidarum


 

Shrewsbury and Telford Hospital NHS Trust  

CQC review following perinatal deaths


Statistics

Maternity Services Monthly Statistics - August 2018, Experimental statistics, 
NHS Resolution Maternity incentive scheme year one results,


Articles

Pregnant Women and the Ebola Crisis (New England Journal of Medicine Perspective), 



Acknowledgements: Embed Health Consortium Health Bulletin

Saturday, December 01, 2018

World AIDS Day

Want something to read about HIV and AIDS?    Here is a list, including diagnosis, management and treatment, but also fiction, social aspects and history, and some films and documentaries to watch (you will need to be a member of the University of Leicester or another subscriber to Box of Broadcasts to watch those).

World AIDS Day website.