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Risks of Having a Baby with IVF

Paul Guerdo
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Risks of Having a Baby with IVF

In Virto Fertilization is an incredible way for couples having difficulty conceiving to share in the magical experience of having their own child. With continually advancing medical technologies, this procedure has become a routine and safe operation. However, there are still some risks that women should be aware of before choosing IVF. 

Multiple Births

During the implantation process, there are times when more than one embryo is transferred to the uterus. This can cause a double or triple pregnancy, which comes with several risks. Early labor and low birth weights are the most common, which are often associated with multiple births as stated by The Law Offices of Roger W. Stelk. 

Premature Delivery

There are plenty of questions about IVF, but one of the top is whether or not the process will cause a premature delivery. While research does suggest that the risk is increased, it’s only slightly. You should speak with your doctor about this risk and how it may affect you. 

Ovarian Hyperstimulation Syndrome

During IVF, doctors use injectable fertility drugs such as HCG. This induces ovulation, increasing the success of implantation. Sometimes, this causes hyperstimulation syndrome. It can lead to rapid weight gain and shortness of breath. However, this risk is rare. 

Miscarriage

Another common concern is miscarriage, especially for women who have already experienced this misfortune. If you’re worried about the possibility, then you’ll be happy to know that the miscarriage rate is no higher than a with regular pregnancy. 

Rates remain at 15% to 25% regardless of how you conceive. Keep in mind that those percentages increase with age, though. At 34-45 years old, the chances rise between 20% and 35% After you reach 45, there is roughly a 50% chance. 

Egg-Retrieval Complications

IVF doctors typically use an aspirating needle to collect eggs from your uterus. This can cause bleeding, infection, and damage to your bladder or bowels. Orange County personal injury attorneys also warn that the risks might increase with sedation or anesthesia. 

Ectopic Pregnancy

When a fertilized egg grows outside of the uterus, it is known as an ectopic pregnancy. With IVF, this can happen when the egg is implanted on the outer edge. It happens in 2% to 5% of women who undergo IVF, leading to the death of the fertilized egg. 

Birth Defects

While some women worry about birth defects with IVF, age is the primary factor in their development. There are no increased risks with any form of conception. So, this is one myth you don’t have to consider. 

Cancer

Early studies surrounding IVF suggested that certain medications used during the process could cause cancer, specifically those that foster egg growth. Recent studies, however, contradict these early findings. You should still speak with your doctor about your risk for cancer before choosing IVF. 

Increased Stress

IVF is physically and financially stressful. At times, it can even be emotionally draining. Added stress can lead to all sorts of issues. So, make sure you have support during the IVF process. Rely on your friends, family, and partner to help you handle infertility treatments. 

Can Smartwatches Help Prevent Car Accidents?

Paul Guerdo
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Can Smartwatches Help Prevent Car Accidents?

It might sound like science fiction, but new research suggests that smartwatches are earning their place amongst today’s top accident avoidance systems. As connectivity features increase, drivers of new vehicles are privy to a suite of luxury and safety features that usher in the future. So, where does a smartwatch fit in? 

Driver Assistance

Advanced driver assistance systems, or ADAS for short, are the way of the future. These unique technologies incorporate radar and video cameras that allows cars to brake and steer to avoid accidents. Even in their simplest forms, they offer audio and visual alerts that quickly grab a driver’s attention. 

While the technology is amazing, it comes with one major flaw. Drivers begin to get annoyed with their chimes and blinking lights, leading them to turn these features off or simply ignore them. It’s a phenomenon called alert fatigue.

At the same time, these alert systems serve as a distraction in critical moments. If the person behind the wheel is already aware of the impending accident, a constant beeping can cause knee-jerk reaction that could lead to a more serious accident. 

It might not sound like a big deal, but personal injury attorneys that handle car accidents are already seeing instances where the features meant to keep drivers safe have led to an even worse situation for all parties involved. 

A Possible Solution

With this issue identified, the challenge becomes eliminating this hazard without sacrificing the safety benefits. Researchers believe that the solution lies in a combination of cameras and smartwatches. The goal is to have cars recognize when the driver is already aware of an impending accident. 

By placing cameras on the dashboard, your vehicle’s safety systems can identify changes in eye position and posture that signify a “panic mode.” Add in a smartwatch connected to the vehicle and tightening of the muscles as well as increased heart rate are easily identified as well. 

These new systems would be a combination of psychology, biology, and technology working together in perfect unison. Together, these features can accurately determine the human response to panic as well as how it might vary from one person to the next. 

Creating the Future

The trick behind incorporating a smartwatch is connectivity and an app. Cars are already equipped to connect your smart devices and offer a wide array of features, but nothing quite like this. As for the watches themselves, measuring heartrate already exits. Recognizing muscle tension, on the other hand, would be a new technology. 

The cameras in the dashboard are simple cameras combined with already existing technology, such as facial recognition in the form of recognizing expressions used in Apple’s live emojis. Detecting eye movement is nothing new, either.

Bowling law personal injury attorneys are excited by the capabilities this new tech could hold for cases and clients. With new evidence, they could better determine liability in court. This technology is still a ways off, but it may just hold a safer future for every driver in the world. 

The Fed Warns of Climate Change Costs

Maren
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The Fed Warns of Climate Change Costs

The Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco has just released their quarterly report, which is far from optimistic about the future of financial America in the coming years if climate change is allowed to continue unchecked.

The report, which is supposed to steer clear of all controversy and opinionating, states clearly that unless something is done to slow down global warming and climate change, most American town on the East and West Coasts, as well as the Gulf Coast, will no longer be able to come up with enough tax-based funds to either shore up existing sea walls or start building them as the earth’s sea level inevitably rises.

 And that’s not all.

Home values across the country are poised to take a Humpty-Dumpty type fall because of the increased frequency of flooding and the spreading geographical areas that used to be bone dry during flood season but now are turning into seasonal quagmires. These homes were not built to seasonal flooding standards and if and when they flood they will become completely uninhabitable and need to be torn down rather than repaired. This is already impacting home insurance rates everywhere from North Dakota to New Mexico. 

The Fed rarely goes into details on climate risks, and so their specific remarks about flooding and the cost of rising oceans is expected to reverberate on Wall Street — and not in a good way. 

Does China and the US Have a New Farm Trade Accord?

Maren
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Does China and the US Have a New Farm Trade Accord?

President Trump’s office memoed reporters last week that he has broken the ‘tariff wars’ blockade with China by implementing a ‘phase one’ trading deal with Beijing, which will guarantee massive agricultural purchases of American products by the Chinese in the coming year. The reason this statement has not received more notice is that the Chinese government has yet to either confirm or deny that such an agreement has been made.

While the Trump administration says specifically that the Chinese government has committed to the purchase of between forty to fifty billion dollars worth of farm products in 2020, the official Chinese Commerce Ministry does not give a specific figure when talking about the agree, which has not been written down on paper yet; instead, they have released a statement merely saying that all farm purchases from the United States would be made according to the demands of the Chinese market.

This leaves American pig farmers in an especially anomalous position. With African Swine Flu devasting most of the Chinese hog population, American pig farmers stand to make a tidy profit from pork sales to China — that is, if this agreement is a fact and not just wishful thinking or an empty boast. Only time will tell.  

China to Allow Foreign Investment in Insurance Industry.

Maren
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China to Allow Foreign Investment in Insurance Industry.

The Chinese government announced yesterday in Beijing that they have reversed a half century policy of excluding foreigners and foreign companies from investing in the lucrative insurance industry in China. The latest statistics show that on average a Chinese male in his mid-30’s holds nearly a quarter of a million dollars in various life insurance policies, and that females in their 30’s are coming close to that same benchmark. Most financial experts agree that the large mass of Chinese people are still extremely cautious and determined to ‘saving for a rainy day’ — since many can still remember the chaos and famine of the Cultural Revolution fifty years ago. 

Although Beijing said the policy change would take place quickly, insurance experts in Asia cautioned that it still may take several years for foreign investors to reap any benefit from the Chinese insurance market; even with the best intentions, the Chinese bureaucracy is an immense labyrinth that has trained itself to move sluggishly and to require everything in triplicate, even in this paperless internet age. 

In a related matter, Beijing also announced that starting in 2020 foreign investors will no longer need approval for conducting business using the local currency — both the yuan and the renminbi.

Stress During Pregnancy Can Affect Fetus Gender.

Maren
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Stress During Pregnancy Can Affect Fetus Gender.

A new study from the Columbia University Medical Research Department has given rise to confirmation about stress during pregnancy, and how it can affect everything from the baby’s gender to its ability to adapt to external influences immediately after birth.

The study, under the auspices of the Vagelos College of Physicians and Surgeons, took several years to complete and involved several hundred pregnant women from all social strata and racial makeup. Physicians were able to track the pregnancies of women from conception to birth, and to access their medical records and family history in order to create a template for estimating how stress and anxiety measurably affect a healthy fetus aay the experts at Erlich Law Office, LLC.

Perhaps the main takeaway from the new study is that stress, both psychological and physical, during pregnancy can affect the gender of the child. Pregnant women who were under stress during the first trimester were more likely to have a girl than a boy — the ratio was roughly pegged at five girls for every two boys. The world-wide average birth rate is currently one-hundred-and five males to one-hundred-females.

The study also concluded that pregnant women under continuous stress after the first trimester were more likely to give birth prematurely, anywhere from two weeks to two months early.

Non-Profit Hospitals Are Not As Consumer Friendly as Most Think.

Maren
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Non-Profit Hospitals Are Not As Consumer Friendly as Most Think.

There’s a hidden side to non-profit hospitals that they don’t want their patients to see. It’s the seamy side populated by state and federal lobbyists that continually press local legislatures to rescind pricing guides for medical care on the local level, and that pay fat salaries to lobbyists in Washington DC to insure that inconvenient things like transparent billing and Medicare for All do not get anywhere near a hearing that could lead to their approval.

Why would not-for-profit hospitals, seen by most people as public benefactors, want to hold back legislation that is obviously consumer-friendly and could lead to major breakthroughs in the cost of diagnosing and treating a variety of illness and disease? The answer is complicated, but it’s been made clearer by recent journalistic reports on how Big Pharma is sweet talking the nonprofit hospitals into keeping drug prices high, and in return making sure that these same hospitals will get steep discounts on their products. It’s also been reported that doctors at nonprofit hospitals are not at all pleased with their salaries and perks, and are beginning to press for better incomes or else they’ll walk out of the nonprofits and start their own for-profit clinics. These kinds of circumstances are forcing nonprofit hospitals to act like for-profit hospitals, whether they like it or not.

Nobel Prize Winner in Physics Says Colonizing Outer Space Will Never Happen.

Maren
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Nobel Prize Winner in Physics Says Colonizing Outer Space Will Never Happen.

Forget about living on another planet someday, says Michel Mayor. The co-winner of the Nobel Prize is Physics this year told reporters that the idea of moving people into deep outer space to colonize an exoplanet is both ludicrous and impractical.

She knows whereof she speaks. Mayor received the Nobel Prize for her work in astrophysics that led to the discovery of the first exoplanet — that is, a planet that is outside of our solar system. It took over ten years of research and painstaking study of star charts as well as a constant search for a particular kind of ‘wobble’ that it was theorized that stars would exhibit if there was a planet circling them.

Mayor is also none too keen on the idea of humans colonizing the moon or nearby Mars. She says that the tremendous amount of support such colonies would require could never be made up from the colonies themselves becoming profitable, or even self-supporting. 

She dismissed the idea of ‘tourist dollars’ for outer space trips to the moon or to Mars as so fantastic it should be relegated to science fiction magazines and the movies. She says that she knows of no financial experts who can see any clear profit in the human conquest of space. Unmanned satellites, she stated, are still the best bet for exploring the universe.  

Agio — Industry Leader in IT Outsourcing for Hedge Funds

Jared
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Agio — Industry Leader in IT Outsourcing for Hedge Funds

Agio is an information technology (IT) outsourcing company with their corporate headquarters located in New York, New York. Within the overall domain of IT outsourcing, the firm has a particular strength in assisting hedge fund companies in this process.

The need for a better means of managing the IT infrastructures in this particular business sector arose out of the financial crisis of 2007 – 2008. On January 17, 2010, Agio wAs founded to address this need. Bart McDonough came to the marketplace offering a tailored IT outsourcing solution for hedge funds. This consisted of offering server and network management, database administration, storage and quality assurance services as well as help desk support. Bart McDonough now leads the efforts of the firm, serving as Chief Executive Officer (CEO). 

Bart brings a wealth of skill and experience to this task. He has more than 20 years of experience regarding IT management in the hedge fund industry, including business development, cybersecurity and overall IT infrastructure management. Bart’s core strengths he brings to clients of Agio are both deep and wide. These include assessing, defining and putting in place best-in-class risk management models, controls and strategies. Leveraging these skills, Bart and his team of more than 200 dedicated employees have designed managed IT and cybersecurity tools tailored to protect the most important assets of companies in the hedge fund industry — money and reputation.

One example of this singular expertise that Bart McDonough and his team at Agio bring to this market sector is diagnosing and then fixing an errant IT setting at Bloomberg Professional Services that could have allowed over 300,000 subscribers to be compromised. Before founding Agio, Bart was Manager of Operations for Optimark Technologies (1998 – 2000), Director of Business Development at Bluestone Capital Partners (2000 – 2001) and Managing Director, System Architecture for SAC Capital Advisors (2001 – 2010). Currently Bart is a Member of the Board of Directors at two cybersecurity companies, Magnus Cloud and TwoSense.AI. He is a frequent speaker on the topic of IT outsourcing for hedge funds. Some of these engagements include speeches at Goldman Sachs, Morgan Stanley and Atlas Holdings

Burt McDonough authored a press release for the Agio web site that spoke about some of the best practices for IT outsourcing for hedge funds. In the article, McDonough addresses his points to Chief Technology Officers (CTOs), Chief Information Officers (CIOs) and Senior IT Managers at hedge fund companies who have all likely considered IT outsourcing of one form or another. 

He points out that the hedge fund IT environment is somewhat unique regarding IT provisioning in that the funds managed can have very large revenues that require rock-solid critical applications and yet may have a relatively small physical scale compared to some other companies and industries. Bart covers a few main topics, one of these being when to outsource. He admits that every hedge fund company is different and the time to outsource IT operations can vary. However, he points out that in most cases it comes down to one key consideration regarding internal IT operations — a consistent failure to meet the service levels demanded by executive management.

Everyone is Seeing Red About Red Meat.

Maren
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Everyone is Seeing Red About Red Meat.

So the big question in health this past week has been: Is red meat healthy for you or not? The answer, it seems, is — “It Depends.

A recent study by international researchers and dieticians rattled the cages of carnivores and vegans alike when they released a study seemingly implying that there is no real hard and fast evidence that red meat or processed meat (the kind that delis serve up in great big heaps) is detrimental to the health of an average person.

The study was immediately called into question when some of the researchers involved admitted, under pressure, that they had ties to the meat industry that were not disclosed in the research study. 

But the majority of the scientists and nutritionists involved are completely free of any question of influence. 

So what did the study really say about read meat and that baloney sandwich you want to have for lunch today? Only this: red meats and processed meats are no more dangerous to health, when eaten in moderation, than chicken or fish. The two key words in the study are ‘moderation’ and ‘normal health.’ In other words, those without any illness or disease that would contraindicated red meats or processed meats can safely assume that eating a few portions each week will not cause any serious health problems.

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