6 Oct 2008 at 4:03pm
Reuters - A prenatal blood test can be used to determine if an unborn baby has Down's syndrome without the small risk to the fetus posed by invasive testing methods such as amniocentesis, U.S. researchers said on Monday.
4 Oct 2008 at 12:47am
HealthDay - (HealthDay News) -- Having asthma doesn't necessarily mean an
unhealthy pregnancy. The key is to control symptoms and prevent
attacks.
4 Oct 2008 at 12:47am
HealthDay - FRIDAY, Oct. 3 (HealthDay News) -- Couples made up of one Asian
and one white partner may face an increased risk of gestational diabetes
and a higher risk of Caesarean delivery, say researchers at the Lucile
Packard Children's Hospital and the Stanford University School of
Medicine.
2 Oct 2008 at 10:46pm
HealthDay - (HealthDay News) -- While sexual intercourse throughout a
healthy pregnancy is usually safe, it may not be recommended for women who
are a higher risk for complications.
1 Oct 2008 at 10:46pm
HealthDay - WEDNESDAY, Oct. 1 (HealthDay News) -- Women with a history of dieting
or other practices that restrict their eating habits may be more
vulnerable to gaining too much or too little weight during pregnancy, a
new study finds.
1 Oct 2008 at 10:46pm
HealthDay - WEDNESDAY, Oct. 1 (HealthDay News) -- One of the most anguishing
moments for parents is deciding on a course of action -- or non-action --
when their baby is born extremely prematurely or with potentially fatal or
disabling problems.
1 Oct 2008 at 1:25pm
Reuters - Testing for genetic defects early in pregnancy through chorionic villus sampling, or CVS, does not appear to raise the risk of fetal loss.
1 Oct 2008 at 7:59am
Reuters - When her baby turned blue, Nivetha Biju rushed the child to the emergency room of an Indian hospital and watched helplessly as the baby lost consciousness because the nurses on duty had no idea what to do.
27 Sep 2008 at 3:15am
AP - Outside the Zekai Tahir Burak maternity hospital stands a bronze statue of a mother nursing a baby with an inscription from the Prophet Mohammed: "Paradise lies at the feet of the mother."
24 Sep 2008 at 5:25pm
Reuters - Pfizer Inc's research chief said he foresees more collaborations with other pharmaceutical companies in an effort to share the cost and risk of drug development and potentially get more experimental medicines into expensive late stage testing.
6 Oct 2008 at 11:43am
That's the question posed by first time mom, Leah on her blog . I was actually quite interested in her notes as well as the comments.
4 Oct 2008 at 11:25am
Now there is a new one - the race of your partner, for certain women. A recent study showed that Asian women who had Caucasian partners were more likely to have a cesarean section , 33%, than Caucasian women ...
3 Oct 2008 at 11:30am
There has been a lot of debate about women choosing cesarean birth for their babies.
1 Oct 2008 at 11:11am
Strollers are a near necessity, particularly if you enjoy walking. It's a great way to get baby out of the house and get some exercise.

30 Sep 2008 at 6:07am
I'm going to go out on a limb and give you some baby names that I don't think will make a comeback , at least not in my life time.
28 Sep 2008 at 6:03am
I personally really like music. In fact, with the kids running around I don't turn on music as much as I used to do.
27 Sep 2008 at 1:13pm
Well, Baby Noa and I are making due these days. The kids are back in school since we lost our electricity for several days after a wind storm.
25 Sep 2008 at 12:54pm
Early Signs Of Pregnancy By Chloe Young Some women experience all of these pregnancy symptoms at some point during early pregnancy and other women may only experience one or two.
24 Sep 2008 at 4:53pm
The Michigan Health & Hospital Association Keystone Center for Patient Safety & Quality launched a new initiative to make health care safer for mothers giving birth and their newborn babies in Michigan ...
22 Sep 2008 at 4:34pm
TMZ is reporting that someone has stolen photo of Jaime Lynn Spears breastfeeding her baby, Maddie.
20 Sep 2008 at 9:23am
A dear friend had a miscarriage this week. I know how sad she and her husband are and how awful this must feel for them.
18 Sep 2008 at 9:05am
Believing that after giving birth the pre-pregnancy shape and weight will return immediately is a sure way to become frustrated.
16 Sep 2008 at 9:04am
We've been waiting to choose a baby name for our new daughter. It was a hard choice.

14 Sep 2008 at 11:07pm
Dog pregnancy symptoms may vary in respect of breed. In this article you will read what are the general dog pregnancy symptoms common for every bitch.
13 Sep 2008 at 7:26am
Kuwait : A Kuwaiti man filed a case at Farwaniya Police Station saying his housemaid became pregnant during his absence.
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2 Oct 2008 at 6:04pm
An expensive cervical cancer vaccine is now needed by young female immigrants before they can become legal U.S. residents, a requirement that immigration advocates say is unfair.
2 Oct 2008 at 1:03pm
When Alicia Staley, a 37-year-old systems analyst from Boston got the news that she had cancer, she knew she was in for an emotional rollercoaster. But she assumed she’d be the one riding it, not her friends.
1 Oct 2008 at 6:27am
"Cancer survivors are blessed with two lives," TODAY anchor and breast cancer survivor Hoda Kotb writes in a personal essay. "There is your life before cancer, and your life after. I am here to tell you your second life is going to be so much better than the first."
24 Sep 2008 at 8:14am
Oscar-winning actress Nicole Kidman said swimming in Australian Outback waterfalls may promote fertility and might have contributed to her unexpected pregnancy over the past year.
22 Sep 2008 at 12:30pm
Acupuncture works as well as a drug commonly used to combat hot flashes and other menopausal symptoms that can accompany breast cancer treatment, and its benefits last longer, without bad side effects, researchers said on Monday.
19 Sep 2008 at 1:23pm
More than 500,000 women still die each year in pregnancy and childbirth, often because no emergency obstetrical care is available, the United Nations Children's Fund said.
17 Sep 2008 at 8:50am
Nearly one quarter of all U.S. women have some sort of pelvic floor disorder such as urinary or fecal incontinence, and more cases are likely as the population ages, researchers said on Tuesday.
16 Sep 2008 at 5:45pm
The author of a new book on migraines talks about what causes the headaches, why women get them more frequently than men and how to treat them.
10 Sep 2008 at 12:46pm
An Italian newspaper says a terminally ill 50-year-old nurse was briefly awoken from an induced coma to get married to her longtime partner. The woman was diagnosed with a terminal strain of hepatitis in July. According to her husband Enzo, this is “a last wish that finally became reality.”
3 Sep 2008 at 10:49am
Scientists have discovered the crucial ovulation-triggering role played by a small protein molecule in the brain, a finding that could hold the key to new therapies for infertility.
2 Sep 2008 at 11:04am
Women who smoke may develop heart disease at almost the same age as male smokers, wiping out the natural difference between the sexes, doctors said Tuesday.
29 Aug 2008 at 1:43pm
Dysfunction in a portion of the brain may explain some of the symptoms of fibromyalgia syndrome, researchers suggest in a paper published in the Journal of Rheumatology
28 Aug 2008 at 4:26pm
Like Christina Applegate, more women are choosing prophylactic mastectomies when diagnosed with breast cancer. But does the radical procedure increase survival rates?
22 Aug 2008 at 1:36pm
Yoga can reduce hot flashes and night sweats among women going through menopause, and also appears to sharpen their mental function, researchers from India report.
21 Aug 2008 at 6:38am
A 61-year-old Japanese woman gave birth to her own grandchild, using an egg donated by her daughter, a clinic said Thursday.
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6 Oct 2008 at 6:00am
Music therapy can reduce psychological stress among pregnant women, according to research just published in a special complementary and alternative therapy medicine issue of the Journal of Clinical Nursing. Researchers from the College of Nursing at Kaohsiung Medical University, Taiwan, randomly assigned 116 pregnant women to a music group and 120 to a control group.
5 Oct 2008 at 2:00am
The American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists (ACOG) reminds women, including those who are pregnant, to get their annual vaccination for the upcoming influenza (flu) season which runs from October through mid-May in the US. According to ACOG, flu vaccination should be a routine part of prenatal care, and the ideal time to vaccinate pregnant women is October and November.
3 Oct 2008 at 12:00pm
The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston will play a key role in local recruitment for the largest child health study in the United States. The National Children's Study will follow 100,000 children across the United States from before birth through age 21 to identify genetic and environmental factors that contribute to health disorders and conditions of childhood and adulthood. Across Harris County, 2,000 women will be recruited during pregnancy.
3 Oct 2008 at 12:00pm
The National Institutes of Health (NIH) has added three more areas of North Carolina and is expanding the role played by the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in a long-term, wide-ranging study of the nation's children.
3 Oct 2008 at 12:00pm
UT Southwestern Medical Center has been chosen as a study center participant in the National Children's Study, which will examine the effects of environmental and genetic factors on child and adult health. The National Institutes of Health-led study is the largest of its kind to be conducted in the U.S.
3 Oct 2008 at 11:00am
Couples in which one of the partners is Asian and the other is white have distinct pregnancy-related outcomes when compared with white couples, according to a study published in the October issue of the American Journal of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Reuters Health reports. The study, by researchers from Stanford University's
3 Oct 2008 at 8:00am
The CP/Yahoo! News on Tuesday examined the Positive Pregnancy Programme, a Canadian initiative created to provide HIV-positive pregnant women with care, resources and support. Jay MacGillivray, a midwife with
2 Oct 2008 at 12:00pm
Nicotine gum might help pregnant women who smoke reduce the number of cigarettes they smoke, which could reduce their risk of having premature or low-birthweight infants, according to a small study recently published in Obstetrics and Gynecology, USA Today reports.
2 Oct 2008 at 12:00pm
According to a study conducted by Aetna (NYSE:AET) and Columbia University College of Dental Medicine, women who received dental care before or during their pregnancy had a lower risk of giving birth to a preterm or low birth weight baby than pregnant women who didn't seek dental care at all.
2 Oct 2008 at 10:00am
Thyroid problems affect as many as 27 million Americans. Among the most common problems are hypothyroidism and hyperthyroidism. To help people learn more about thyroid disorders, the National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases (NIDDK), part of the National Institutes of Health (NIH), has produced four new fact sheets for consumers and health care providers.
2 Oct 2008 at 5:00am
Individuals with bipolar disorder are usually treated with 'mood stabilizing' drugs, one of which is lithium - an inhibitor of GSK-3 proteins. As new drugs that are more powerful inhibitors of GSK-3 are under development despite controversial studies suggesting a link between lithium therapy and congenital heart defects, Thomas Force and colleagues, at Thomas Jefferson University, Philadelphia, set out to determine whether GSK-3 proteins are important for heart development in mice.
1 Oct 2008 at 1:00pm
Women who have a history of dieting or other restricted eating practices are at risk of gaining an inappropriate amount of weight during pregnancy.
1 Oct 2008 at 12:00pm
Fatma Mrisho, executive director of the Tanzania Commission for AIDS, on Friday called on pregnant women living with HIV/AIDS in the country to regularly visit medical clinics in order to prevent mother-to-child transmission of the virus, the Daily News reports.
1 Oct 2008 at 10:00am
Despite recent increases in South Carolina's teen pregnancy rate, the state Department of Health and Human Resources on Friday announced that budget cuts have forced it to eliminate funding to the Medicaid Adolescent Pregnancy Prevention Services program, or MAPPS, the Charleston Post and Courier reports (Coley, Charleston Post and Courier, 9/26).
1 Oct 2008 at 10:00am
Pregnant women who are part of an Asian-white couple face an increased risk of gestational diabetes as compared with couples in which both partners are white, according to a new study from Lucile Packard Children's Hospital and the Stanford University School of Medicine.
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6 Oct 2008 at 4:00am
Pregnant women who are part of an Asian-white couple face an increased risk of gestational diabetes as compared with couples in which both partners are white, according to a new study.
5 Oct 2008 at 11:00pm
Pregnant women worried about their babies' genetic health face a tough decision: get prenatal gene testing and risk miscarriage, or skip the tests and miss the chance to learn of genetic defects before birth.
5 Oct 2008 at 11:00pm
Music therapy can reduce psychological stress among pregnant women, according to research just published in a special complementary and alternative therapy medicine issue of the UK-based Journal of Clinical Nursing.
3 Oct 2008 at 10:00am
Women with a history of dieting or other restricted eating practices are at risk of gaining an inappropriate amount of weight during pregnancy. Researchers report that restrained eating behaviors prior to pregnancy were associated with weight gains above IOM recommendations for normal, overweight and obese women, and weight gains below recommendations for underweight women.
1 Oct 2008 at 1:00pm
Pregnant women should think twice about high-fat foods. Scientists found that female mice fed high-fat diets were more likely to have oversized offspring (a risk factor for overweight and obesity) because fat causes the placenta to go into "overdrive" by providing too many nutrients to the fetus. This also suggests the reverse may be true -- high fat diets may help prevent undersized babies.
1 Oct 2008 at 4:00am
Continuous glucose monitoring as part of antenatal care for women with diabetes improves maternal blood glucose control and lowers birth weight and risk of macrosomia (excessive birth weight in babies), according to a new study.
1 Oct 2008 at 1:00am
While obstetrical care providers are doing a good job working with their patients on smoking cessation, they are not doing as well on abuse of other substances that can harm a woman's unborn baby a new study found.
29 Sep 2008 at 10:00am
Why aren't pregnant women included in most clinical trials? That's the question posed by leading bioethicists, who say it's time to confront the challenges that have led to the exclusion of pregnant women from important research that could positively impact maternal and fetal health.
26 Sep 2008 at 1:00pm
Exposure to an excess of sexual steroids, like testosterone, during fetal development may be a potential risk factor for low sperm count and motility, according to a new study.
25 Sep 2008 at 7:00pm
The majority of infertility patients are in favor of using left-over embryos for stem cell research and would also support selling left-over embryos to other couples, according to a recent survey.
23 Sep 2008 at 1:00pm
In an advance toward a long-sought new male contraceptive, researchers in China have identified key proteins in men that suppress production of sperm and could become new targets for a future male birth control pill.
23 Sep 2008 at 7:00am
Exercise could be a useful tool in helping pregnant women to give up smoking, according to new research. Despite the warnings, 17% of women in the UK and 20% of women in the US still admit to smoking during pregnancy. This often leads to lower birth weight, higher infant mortality, and is linked to learning difficulties, problem behavior and asthma in childhood.
22 Sep 2008 at 4:00am
Monitoring the health of children born to women who attempted suicide while pregnant can shed light on which medicines and what doses are particularly dangerous to developing fetuses, according to researchers from Hungary who publish their findings in a series of reports in a special issue of Toxicology and Industrial Health.
20 Sep 2008 at 7:00pm
The answer to why an early pregnancy seems to protect against breast cancer could rest with a decrease in stem cells found after animals have given birth, said researchers in a report in the journal Stem Cell.
19 Sep 2008 at 1:00pm
Newborns can be protected from seasonal flu when their mothers are vaccinated during pregnancy. Researchers observed a 63 percent reduction in proven influenza illness among infants born to vaccinated mothers while the number of serious respiratory illnesses to both mothers and infants dropped by 36 percent. The study is the first to demonstrate that the inactivated influenza vaccine provides protection to both mother and newborn.
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6 Oct 2008 at 6:07pm
... they are about how these MEN and woman respond to issues and their history and ... had an older daughter who turned up pregnant my goodness, we'd be hearing vitriol ...
6 Oct 2008 at 5:56pm
... Despite national health experts' long-standing recommendation that women receive a flu shot while pregnant, three-quarters of women* responding to a new ... the most important influences on a pregnant woman's decision to get a flu shot. Of ...
6 Oct 2008 at 5:56pm
... legal "personhood" to every fertilized human egg--all pregnant women will be subjected to a new kind ... the 7 or 8 months that a woman and other persons are aware of her ...
6 Oct 2008 at 5:39pm
... the procedure by having to refer a woman to someone who does not share their ... Outside parliament, a group of about 20 pregnant women congregated on the steps to voice their ...
6 Oct 2008 at 5:38pm
... since Sarah Palin, whose teenage daughter is pregnant and whose 5-month-old son has an as-yet-undetermined ... these views came from the mouths of women who I would have predicted would be ... a truth. He assumed that appointing a woman would ''speak'' to other women, that nominating ...
6 Oct 2008 at 5:37pm
... African countries, including Ghana, Malawi, Sierra Leone, Tanzania, Uganda and Zimbabwe leaving many African women with few options to prevent pregnancy. MSI administers sexual and reproductive health programs throughout 43 countries. MSI prevented more than ...
6 Oct 2008 at 5:36pm
... his whole check. This is a working woman who is abusing the system not someone ... have any problems getting 5 or 6 women pregnant and those women don't receive support because ...
6 Oct 2008 at 5:32pm
... SSNIT contributors, 29 SSNIT pensioners, 5,676 old people, 2,091 indigenes, 35,747 children and 1,439 pregnant women. Mr Abdullah Zakaria Sharijey, Savelugu/Nanton District Scheme Manager of the National Health Insurance Scheme ...
6 Oct 2008 at 5:30pm
... some of those Red Carpets last season, pregnant, but still pulling out all this innovative ... someone, first of all she's an amazing woman and has had such a great career ... is elegant and it's admirable that older women can look to her and say wow, ...
6 Oct 2008 at 5:30pm
... outlawed in the United States. Three-quarters of women who have abortions say they do it ... health care, and offering other assistance to pregnant women, children, and families," he said. Reese ...
6 Oct 2008 at 5:30pm
... people than ever to seek protection from the flu. The CDC also recommends that pregnant women, people over the age of 50, those who live in nursing homes and those ...
6 Oct 2008 at 5:28pm
... chemotherapy, blood transfusions, IV antibiotics and TPN (Total Parental Nutrition). The new Stuart Care-Net Pregnancy center, which provides support and help for pregnant women, is looking for donations of carseats and diapers. Hours vary for donation drop-off. Care-Net ...
6 Oct 2008 at 5:15pm
... environmentalists over sonar and whales; and a suit from San Francisco affecting thousands of women nationwide who were denied retirement benefits for pregnancy leaves they took at least three decades ago. The court may also decide to ...
6 Oct 2008 at 4:58pm
... my power to reverse it. Perchlorate contamination endangers the health of our families, especially pregnant women and children, and to simply allow it to remain in our drinking water is ...
6 Oct 2008 at 4:58pm
... investigating how genetic and environmental factors influence childhood health and disease. Study volunteers -- women who are pregnant or likely to have a child in the near future -- will be recruited ...
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