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'As part of the sweeping layoffs that rocked the [HHS] Tuesday, the entire staff that oversaw an annual survey to better understand infant and maternal health — and that was considered the gold standard in the field — was placed on administrative leave.

The Pregnancy Risk Assessment Monitoring System, or PRAMS, is a dataset of survey responses from people who give birth, both before and after birth.'

https://www.statnews.com/2025/04/01/prams-maternal-mortality-cdc-layoffs/

STAT: Gold-standard maternal mortality database in limbo as CDC staff placed on leave. “As part of the sweeping layoffs that rocked the Department of Health and Human Services on Tuesday, the entire staff that oversaw an annual survey to better understand infant and maternal health — and that was considered the gold standard in the field — was placed on administrative leave. The Pregnancy […]

https://rbfirehose.com/2025/04/02/stat-gold-standard-maternal-mortality-database-in-limbo-as-cdc-staff-placed-on-leave/

https://www.alojapan.com/1230585/healthcare-administrators-and-hypertension-at-small-to-medium-worksites-in-okinawa-japan/ Healthcare administrators and hypertension at small-to-medium worksites in Okinawa, Japan #general #Geriatrics/Gerontology #HealthCheckups #HealthPromotionAndDiseasePrevention #HealthcareAdministrator #Hypertension #InternalMedicine #Medicine/PublicHealth #news #Obstetrics/Perinatology/Midwifery #Okinawa #OkinawaNews #PublicHealth #VisitingMedicalFacilities #Worksite #沖縄 Asia Pacific Cohort Studies Collaboration. Blood pressure and cardiovasc…

I just finished reading Witchcraft for Wayward Girls by Grady Hendrix. It's a harrowing read, and I feel much more educated on pregnancy and how unwed mothers were treated in the days before legal abortion. But one thing about the story kept niggling at me. It's set in Florida in 1969, and measurements were referred to in metric. As in, how many litres of blood in a human body, and how many centimeters a cervix is dilated.

Now, maybe it's different in the medical profession, but metric wasn't introduced in Canada until the 70s when I was a little kid. And as far as I know, Americans still haven't adopted the metric system for whatever reason.

Sooo... was this something the editors didn't catch, or am I wrong about metric not being used in 1969 Florida?
#metric #medicine #Books #obstetrics #MedicalHistory

No progress: The infant mortality rate in the U.S. in 2023 was no different than the rate in 2022.

Birth defects, low birthweight SIDS, injuries, and pregnancy complications remained the top 5 leading causes of infant death.

For more information read: https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/products/databriefs/db521.htm

#Health #PublicHealth #InfantHealth #Pediatrics #MaternalHealth #Obstetrics @publichealth @PediatricPublicHealth @medmastodon

#enshittification of “family” medical care.
A local medical clinic chain in northern Colorado that used to be called Associates in Family Medicine got bought out a year or so ago by a national chain called Village Medical. As patients we noticed some longer delays, etc. but nothing critical. Last week they announced they were ending all #obstetrics care. All of it. Turns out AFM was the only part of the natl chain that still had it at all. Not any more.