Web Searches for Abortion-Linked Terms Soared After Roe v Wade Overturned usnews.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from usnews.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
When the U.S. Supreme Court struck down a woman's constitutional right to abortion in June, Internet searches for information related to abortion and contraception surged.
Pharmacological Approach Fails to Reduce Delirium Severity or Duration miragenews.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from miragenews.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
A new study conducted by researchers from Regenstrief Institute and the universities of South Carolina and Indiana has found that the most commonly prescribed blood pressure medications, taken for at least six months prior to an intensive care unit (ICU) admission, did not protect against developing delirium in the ICU, regardless of patient age, gender, race, co-morbidities or insurance status.
Delirium, an acute brain failure, affects approximately seven million hospitalized patients in the U.S. annually and is associated with longer hospital and ICU length of stay, higher likelihood of mechanical ventilation, long-term cognitive impairment, new nursing home placement and greater likelihood of death. As delirium severity and duration increase, post-discharge cognitive and functional outcomes worsen.
Both abortion- and contraception-related internet searches increased from the weeks before and the weeks after the Supreme Court Dobbs decision in June 2022, according to a retrospective cross-sectional study published in JAMA Health Forum.“Using data from Google search trends, this study aimed to provide a timely analysis of how the Dobbs ruling affected information seeking for