Ping Huang
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While this type of diabetes usually resolves after giving birth, it has been linked with developing diabetes and cardiovascular problems later in life.
Around 8 percent of pregnant women in the U.S.
It's a health problem that's risen consistently over the past 10 years.
That's according to an analysis of more than 12 million births led by scientists at Northwestern University and published in the journal JAMA Internal Medicine.
The researchers say the rise is likely related to worsening health in young people.
who are eating less healthfully and getting less exercise.
In pregnancy, certain hormones can lead to a rise in blood sugar, causing gestational diabetes, which poses risks to the mother and child if it's not managed.
While this type of diabetes usually resolves after giving birth, it has been linked with developing diabetes and cardiovascular problems later in life.
It's a podcast called Why Should I Trust You?
And it was started by scientists and journalists that identify more with traditional public health.
But they also saw that institutions lost trust during the pandemic when people felt failed or ignored by the rules and the health system.
Host Brinda Adhikari says people's deeply held beliefs are not easily swayed.
The podcast hosts conversations between traditional public health leaders and organizers in Maha or the Make America Healthy Again movement.
Adhikari says among their regular guests, they're starting to build some trust.
The salmonella outbreak spans 22 states from California to Florida and Texas to Maine.
People are getting serious cases of the bacterial illness after eating raw oysters and getting hospitalized at higher rates than usual in these types of outbreaks, according to the CDC.
Investigators are trying to see if there's a common source for these cases, which have been linked to a type of salmonella that's not frequently reported.