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Tuesday, 06 January 2009 |
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Women's Health News Two new studies led by researchers at the University of California, Berkeley, suggest that taking maternity leave before and after the birth of a baby is a valuable investment in terms of health benefits for both mothers and newborns. |
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Friday, 19 December 2008 |
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Child Health News Smoking during the first trimester of pregnancy is obviously linked with an increased risk of cleft lip in newborns.Genes that play a role in detoxification of cigarette smoke do not appear to be involved. This is shown in a new study published in the journal Epidemiology. |
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Tuesday, 16 December 2008 |
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Men's Health News The best chance of "reeling-in" an unmarried father and building the foundations for a stable family life are the critical months of pregnancy, says new research from the University of Maryland. |
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Wednesday, 26 November 2008 |
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Drug Trials New research from the U.S. has found that a drug broadly used to prevent premature births offers no benefit.Pregnant woman who enter into early labor are frequently given drugs to quieten the woman's uterus and prevent premature birth. |
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Saturday, 22 November 2008 |
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Women's Health News A course of water aerobics classes has been shown to decrease the amount of pain-killing medication women request during labour. |
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Friday, 14 November 2008 |
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Miscellaneous News With the world abuzz of the news of his second pregnancy, Thomas Beatie tells the definitive story of his first pregnancy this Tuesday on Discovery Health. |
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Monday, 10 November 2008 |
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Medical Procedure News In what is thought to be a world-first, a British woman who was given an ovary transplant is about to give birth to her first baby. |
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Friday, 07 November 2008 |
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Child Health News A team of investigators from the Xi'an Jiaotong University, and The George Institute for International Health and the School of Public Health, the University of Sydney, have been involved in a new study in China that has revealed the important impact of iron supplements during... |
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Wednesday, 05 November 2008 |
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Women's Health News A Canadian expert is warning that high blood pressure during pregnancy could be an early warning that the woman is at risk of developing heart disease later on. |
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Wednesday, 05 November 2008 |
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Child Health News New research has revealed that women who smoke during pregnancy are more likely to have a baby with a birth defect - smoking during pregnancy apparently doubles the risk of the baby having a cleft lip or palate. |
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Wednesday, 05 November 2008 |
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Child Health News The damaging effects of smoking and smoke exposure can be seen at any age. Pediatricians have even noted these negative effects in different stages of infant development. |
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Wednesday, 05 November 2008 |
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Medical Research News Immune cells known as natural murderer (NK) cells are linked with pregnancy problems including pre-eclampsia and recurrent miscarriage. |
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Tuesday, 04 November 2008 |
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Women's Health News Adolescents who have high levels of exposure to television programs that contain sexual content are twice as likely to be involved in a pregnancy over the following 3 years as their peers who watch few such shows, according to a new RAND Corporation study. |
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Tuesday, 04 November 2008 |
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Women's Health News Consuming caffeine at any time during pregnancy is associated with an increased risk of fetal growth restriction (low birth weight), according to research published on bmj. |
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Friday, 19 September 2008 |
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Medical Condition News New research has linked the practice of giving antibiotics to some women at risk of premature birth to cerebral palsy and other problems in infants. |
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Tuesday, 02 September 2008 |
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Women's Health News A survey in Britain of mothers and pregnant women has revealed an astonishing level of confusion and perplexity about being pregnant. |
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Friday, 29 August 2008 |
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Child Health News Preterm infants born to mothers receiving intravenous magnesium sulfate - a frequent treatment to delay labour - are less likely to develop cerebral palsy than are preterm infants whose mothers do not receive it, report researchers in a large National Institutes of Health research... |
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Friday, 01 August 2008 |
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Women's Health News A new study by researchers at the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (NIEHS), part of the National Institutes of Health, shows that pregnant women who binge drink early in their pregnancy increase the likelihood that their babies will be born with oral clefts. |
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Thursday, 10 July 2008 |
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Women's Health News Physicians at the University of Rochester Medical Center have identified a way that appears to reliably predict the birth weight of babies in obese pregnant women, a key cause in counseling patients and planning for safe delivery of their babies. |
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Wednesday, 09 July 2008 |
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Women's Health News Researchers have found what they believe to be the most accurate way of predicting the birth-weight of babies born to the growing number of obese mothers, according to a study in the UK-based journal Ultrasound in Obstetrics and Gynecology. |
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Tuesday, 08 July 2008 |
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Women's Health News Although acute myocardial infarction (AMI) is infrequent in women of child-bearing age, pregnancy can increase a woman's risk of heart attack 3- to 4-fold, according to a study published in the July 15, 2008, issue of the Journal of the American College of Cardiology. |
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Monday, 07 July 2008 |
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MONDAY, July 7 Pregnancy alone isn't associated with an increased risk of mental health disorders, a new study says. |
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Monday, 07 July 2008 |
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MONDAY, July 7 Among couples with fertility problems, those in which the man is over age 35 have lower pregnancy rates and increased chances of miscarriage, a new study shows. To come to this conclusion, French researchers looked at more than 12,000 couples who went to a fertility clinic in France. |
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Monday, 07 July 2008 |
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Men's Health News A new study by researchers in France has revealed that after the age of 35 men too experience a loss of fertility. |
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Monday, 07 July 2008 |
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Men's Health News Pregnancy rates decrease and miscarriages increase when a father is over 35 years of age, a scientist will tell the 24th yearly conference of the European Society of Human Reproduction and Embryology (Monday 7 July). |
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Friday, 04 July 2008 |
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Trying to get pregnant again after a miscarriage can be fraught with a host of emotional and physical concerns. |
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Wednesday, 02 July 2008 |
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Women's Health News Researchers at the Stanford University School of Medicine have identified a way that can predict with 70 percent accuracy whether a woman undergoing in vitro fertilization treatment will become pregnant. |
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Monday, 30 June 2008 |
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Hormones, anxiety, emotions and all the changes that come along with pregnancy and expectant parenthood can make any mother-to-be experience mood swings. The American Pregnancy Association offers these suggestions to help keep mood swings under control: Get enough quality sleep. |
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Wednesday, 25 June 2008 |
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Women's Health News New evidence-based guidelines address the prevention and management of thrombosis in key patient populations and reinforce recommendations related to the routine use of preventive therapies. |
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Wednesday, 18 June 2008 |
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Pregnancy affects much of your body, even your skin. Here's a list of changes to the skin that can happen while you're pregnant, provided by the American Pregnancy Association: Stretch marks -- pink or reddish streaks that can happen on your abdomen or breasts. |
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