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New research based on an analysis of data from a large U.S. health care database suggests that in-hospital mortality is low in pregnant women with COVID-19. The retrospective cohort study is published in
Annals of Internal Medicine.
Previous reports suggested an increased risk for death in pregnant women with COVID-19 compared to nonpregnant women of reproductive age. However, these studies may have been limited by factors such as registries with a significant proportion of missing data and biased case ascertainment.
Researchers from the University of Maryland School of Medicine and The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston studied data from the Premier Healthcare Database, an all-payer data repository that captures 20% of U.S. hospitalizations, to evaluate the risk for in-hospital death among pregnant and nonpregnant patients of reproductive age hospitalized with COVID-19. The cohort consisted of 1,062 pregnant and 9,815 nonp
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Women in charge in the Keller administration include, from left: Carol Pierce, Family and Community Services; Shelle Sanchez, Cultural Services; Monica Mitchell, economic developer; Donna Sandoval, city controller; Emily Jaramillo, AFR EMS; Lisa Huval, Housing and Homelessness; Sarita Nair, CAO; Michelle Melendez, Equity and Inclusion; Justine Freeman, deputy chief of staff; Carolyn Ortega, Animal Welfare; Cecily Barker, APD; Nyika Allen, Aviation; Jeannette Chavez, risk manager; Anna Sanchez, Senior Affairs; Mariela Ruiz-Angel, Community Safety. (Courtesy of city of Albuquerque)
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. In March 2018, in honor of Women’s History month, I wrote an UpFront column
on the fledgling Mayor Tim Keller administration ensuring close to half of his top administrators were women, and that many were women of color. The column reflected their hopes of bringing different voices to the table,
that and more, starting now, on teen kids news. i m mwanzaa. and i m jessica. being told you have a rare type of disease is certainly scary. but realizing that your life is on the line can be downright overwhelming. amanda has the story of an amazing teen who wished to celebrate life, after it was almost taken away from her. jeannette sanchez is like many other teens. she enjoys spending time with her friends, her family and her guitar. but while playing one day, jeannette noticed something was not quite right. i started having some hearing loss, but it only started as like popping of my right ear and i just thought it was just a little weird but i didn t make much of it because when it first started happening i had a really bad cold and i was just like oh, it s part of my cold. the cold went away, but the popping in the ear didn t. it got worse. eventually, she couldn t hear at all from that ear! and then came the nose bleeds. i woke up one day and there