Fertility Hope As Study Shows Eggs Survive in Older Ovaries
In research that could have broad implications for women's fertility treatments, scientists have found that despite their age, female mice have a renewable egg supply in their ovaries.
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Community Spirit May Prevent Teen Pregnancy
Social capital may help explain differences in teen pregnancy rates between states.
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Doctors' Judgment As Important As Guideline for Cesarean Sections
Physician judgment plays a critical role in determining the speed with which an emergency Cesarean section is performed.
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Violence From Male Partners Associated With Serious Health Threats To Pregnant Women and Newborns
Violence from male partners, both in the year prior to and during a woman's pregnancy, increases her risk of serious health complications during pregnancy.
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Impact of Pregnancy on Inflammatory Arthritis
Study correlates changes in serum fetal dna levels with disease improvement during pregnancy and recurrence postpartum.
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Pre-Scan Warnings Would Have Caused Extra Distress Say Women With Problem Fetuses
Warning pregnant mothers about fetal abnormalities before scans would only have caused additional distress.
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Three Million Babies Born Using Assisted Reproductive Technologies
More than three million babies have been born worldwide using assisted reproductive technologies (ART) since the first ART baby (Louise Brown) was born in the UK 28 years ago.
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Education Improves Understanding of Risks of Having Twins
Parents who wish for IVF twins are often unaware of the risks involved in twin pregnancy and in giving birth to more than one child at a time.
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Nutrition a Major Factor In Rise In Twin Pregnancies
Improved nutrition, both maternal and in the lab in the case of IVF, had produced better and stronger embryos and healthier pregnancies.
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Genetic Counselors Can Help Hopeful Parents Have Healthy Children
Couples have the advantage of avoiding decisions about terminating pregnancy or destroying embryos.
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Delayed Umbilical Cord Clamping Boosts Iron in Infants
Just a two minute delay in clamping a baby's umbilical cord can boost the child's iron reserves and prevent anemia for months.
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Pregnancy Complications Still High for Women With Diabetes
Doctors suggest that pregnant women with diabetes should be routinely screening for heart defects.
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Pregnancy Cravings Can Harm Your Oral Health
During pregnancy an individual's oral health may negatively be affected by pica combined with bulimia and can be hard to diagnose and treat during those nine months of pregnancy.
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First Trimester Use of ACE Inhibitors Implicated In Birth Defects
We knew ACE inhibitors were a possible cause of adverse fetal outcomes when exposure occurred later in pregnancy, but it has not been well studied in the first trimester.
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Children Born After Abortion Ban Had 'Significantly Better' Educational Achievements
children born just after an abortion ban display significantly better educational and labor market achievements than children born just before the ban.
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Myth That Sex Late in Pregnancy Hastens Birth
Study debunks the belief that engaging in sexual intercourse during the final weeks of pregnancy can hasten labor and delivery.
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Light-to-Moderate Prenatal Alcohol Exposure Can Lead To Cognitive Deficits 10 Years Later
Women who are pregnant or considering pregnancy should refrain from consuming alcohol.
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Woman's Chances of Having Twins Can Be Modified By Diet
Women who consume animal products, specifically dairy, are five times more likely to have twins.
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Mild Maternal Stress May Actually Help Children Mature
During pregnancy, modest anxiety and daily stress is associated with more advanced early child development.
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Fast Pharmacy Access To The Morning-after Pill Could Prevent 10% More Unwanted Pregnancies
While pregnancy pills should be used as an emergency measure, rather than an alternative to using contraception, it is essential that the morning after pill is available promptly if a female feels there is a pregnancy risk.
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Sick of Being Pregnant? Inducing Labor Carries Risks
Women who have their labor induced or are given medication to stimulate contractions are at greater risk of developing chorioamnionitis.
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Obesity Makes Labor Tougher on Women
It takes obese pregnant women who are given medication to induce labor longer to deliver their babies than women of normal body weight.
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Advice for Overweight Moms: Lose Weight Before Getting Pregnant a Second Time
Doctors should advise overweight moms considering another pregnancy to take off extra weight first because they are at greater risk of having big babies.
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Use of Aspirin in Treating Pregnancy Disorder
The rationale for low dose aspirin therapy to prevent or delay pre eclampsia without compromising reproductive function is definitely a feasible therapeutic strategy.
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Women Can Help Prevent Pregnancy Complications
Pregnancy can be a wonderful and stressful experience any time of the year, but during the summer months, women should take extra steps to avoid complications.
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Home Pregnancy Tests
Home pregnancy tests can detect the pregnancy symptoms as early as 7 to 10 days after conception.
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Despite Laws Many Pregnant Women Lack HIV Testing
Despite laws requiring that every pregnant woman be offered HIV testing multiple times during pregnancy, about 20 percent of women reach their third trimester without it.
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Intervals Between Pregnancies and Perinatal Outcomes
Ver long or short intervals between pregnancies are associated with increased risk of poor perinatal outcomes.
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Ultrasounds Show Mothers' Drinking Shrinks Fetal Brain
Alcohol use during pregnancy is a leading preventable cause of birth defects and developmental disabilities in the United States.
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Low Intake of Milk During Pregnancy Linked To Decreased Birth Weight
Women who rarely drank milk during their pregnancy gave birth to smaller babies compared to women who drank more milk.
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Your Guide to Pregnancy Tests
In order to recognize pregnancy signs and symptoms at home there are some important issues to consider when deciding what kind of pregnancy test is right for you.
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Innovations in The Care of Women During Pregnancy and Labor
Nurses are encouraged to practice family centered pregnancy care; birth plans causing tension among nurses, patients.
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Fetuses Cannot Feel Pain, Says Expert
The absence of pain in the fetus does not resolve the morality of abortion.
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Pregnancy Tests
All pregnancy tests look for a special hormone in the urine or blood that is only present when a woman is pregnant. There are two types of pregnancy tests, blood and urine tests.
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Intrahepatic Cholestasis During Pregnancy Associated with Later Liver Disease
Intrahepatic cholestasis of pregnancy occurs in one percent of pregnancies, causing intense skin itching and elevated levels of liver enzymes and bile acids.
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Mom's Nutrition During Pregnancy Related to Child's Behavior at Age Three
Mother's nutritional status in pregnancy also affects the behavior and personality of the child as well.
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Differences in Pregnancy Risks and Outcomes Among Immigrant Groups to The US
It is important for healthcare workers to assess the risk factors associated with pregnancy outcomes in ethnic groups.
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Pregnancy Complications Increase Women's Risk of Heart Disease
Young women who have a range of complications during pregnancy, including preeclampsia, gestational diabetes or preterm birth, are at an increased risk of developing heart disease.
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Am I Pregnant?
Most women don't suspect they are pregnant until they miss a period, and a few don't suspect or believe they are pregnant for months after conception.
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First Trimester is Best Time to Screen Pregnant Women for Fetal Down's Syndrome
Most optimal and accurate time to screen pregnant women for the presence of fetal Down's syndrome is during the first trimester.
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