EarWorm

"Dialogues on hearing health that you can’t stop thinking about" EarWorm is produced by the National Center for Hearing Assessment and Management (NCHAM - pronounced "en-cham") and is one of many research centers located at Utah State University in Logan, Utah. The mission of NCHAM is to ensure that all infants and young children with hearing loss are identified as early as possible and have access to timely and appropriate audiological, educational, medical intervention, and family support services. NCHAM receives funding from multiple sources to conduct research, training, and technical assistance activities to support and improve newborn and early childhood hearing screening, diagnosis, and early intervention. NCHAM has served as the Early Hearing Detection and Intervention National Technical Resource Center (EHDI NTRC) for many years. The EHDI NTRC is currently funded as a cooperative agreement (U52MC04391) with the Maternal and Child Health Bureau (MCHB) of the Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA) at the United States Department of Health and Human Services. The work of the EHDI-NTRC is funded in part by a cooperative agreement (U52MC04391) from the Maternal and Child Health Bureau (MCHB) of the Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA) at the United States Department of Health and Human Services. Any views, thoughts and opinions expressed by participants in EarWorm are solely that of the participants and no endorsement by NCHAM, USU, or MCHB/HRSA is implied or expressed.

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It’s Time to Educate Women about the Risks of Cytomegalovirus (CMV) During Pregnancy

2024-03-15

EarWorm Episode 008 with William Eiserman, PhD. and Megan Nix

Pregnant women are commonly educated about a variety of ways they should take care of themselves in order to have a healthy pregnancy and a healthy baby. Some of the most widely known precautions women are advised about during pregnancy are actually quite rare while one of the greatest risks to the health of a developing fetus remains largely undisclosed to women, cytomegalovirus or CMV which is the leading cause of birth defects. The fact that CMV is left out of most conversations health care providers have with pregnant women is especially surprising given that there are relatively simple things pregnant women can do to significantly reduce the risk of their baby contracting it during pregnancy. CMV is a disease infants can be tested for at birth and, if they are found to have it, there is a medication that can reduce, if not prevent altogether, the potential profound effects CMV can have on a child’s development. And yet, this testing is not done as a matter of standard practice either. In this episode of EarWorm we will be talking with author, Megan Nix who is the mother of five children, one of whom was born with CMV and who, as a result, is profoundly deaf. We will discuss the importance of preventing CMV, testing for CMV at birth and treating CMV in a timely fashion to prevent the negative effects of the virus on a child’s development.

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Filetype: MP3 - Size: 70 MB - Duration: 36:42m (256 kbps 44100 Hz)

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