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Sperm washing helps couples – Breakthrough in focu

...date, there have been no seroconversions in either mother or child. Washed sperm have also been used in other assisted conception treatments, such as in vitro fertilization. In the United States, the CDC has recommended against insemination of women with semen from men infected with HIV. Current data from p...

And now live birth on the internet.com?

...ocal custom of home confinement of one month for a mother after childbirth makes it difficult for them to visit their kids if they are hospitalized due to illness. This facility has come as a boon to these people and is turning out to be a big hit with Singaporeans. This is called view baby project and ...

How do babies understand language?

...ey were 15 months old. The study showed the more a mother spoke a word the more the chances were for the baby to know it. As they continue to grow older the babies continue to learn more and develop more strategies to understand even widely separated words. All this goes to show that they have a very flexib...

Two doctors suspended for wrong brain surgery

... present during the surgery. A few years ago, the mother of Indian film star Shridevi was operated upon the...was paid and the matter hushed up, the unfortunate mother of the superstar didn’t recover from the blotched surgeryand the subsequent corrective surgeries tha...

Frozen Canadian baby stages miraculous recovery

...r withheld the name of the baby and added that the mother was recovering from the mental trauma of the ordeal. The baby’s heart which appeared to have stopped for a couple of hours just started beating as the doctors were preparing to place the baby in a heart lung machine. Miracles still do occur!!!!...

Minor mutations in HIV virus

... be programmed to target the same regions that the mother targeted. In mothers in whom mutations has already arisen, the children could not target the virus effectively....

Genetic influence in menopause

...ed their menopause at around the same age as their mother or sister. But the link between the menopause and genetics has not been established by scientific evidence till now. Researchers in Utrecht and Wageningen in the Netherlands have collected data from 243 non-twin sisters in 118 families already part...

Avoid stress to have strong babies

...rnal, suggest that "the psychological state of the mother may affect foetal development and therefore birth weight".// The women were asked to rate their stress levels using a questionnaire. The researchers carried out ultrasound scans to test the blood flow through arteries. They found that those who were...

Snoring could be a warning

...d pressure can lead to injury or even death in the mother and the foetus. Women can try to reduce their blood pressure by resting or with medication. But drugs may put the foetus at risk, and sometimes even the maximum dose fails to get blood pressure down. New Scientist magazine reports that a team from Um...

Vitamins reduce pre-eclampsia

...re-eclampsia. The condition involves the pregnant mother with a high-blood pressure, and can interfere with... the family, it is the first pregnancy, and if the mother is over 40 years old or has diabetes or existing high blood pressure. If left untreated, it can caus...

Miscarriage linked to late embryos

...ay be a protective mechanism designed to spare the mother the physiologic burden of supporting non-viable offspring. The new studies, which monitored the hormones in daily urine samples of healthy women trying to conceive, showed the day by day trend for the first time in a large sample (341 women). The wo...

Hormone Deficiency Results In Miscarriage

...leasing hormone (CRH), is normally released by the mother and the embryo soon after it implants itself in the womb. Without it, the embryo may be left vulnerable to attack from the mother's immune system.// CRH triggers the production of a protein called Fas ligand (FasL) that keeps maternal immune system ...

Allergies are related to mothers' menses

Researchers say that the age at which your mother started menstruation could affect whether you suffer allergies.This is due to the influence of the mother's hormone levels on the development of the child. The study of Finnish families was based on measurements taken more than 30 years ago. More t...

Hypothyroidism can affect babies

... trimester of pregnancy, they are reliant on their mother in the early stages. The researchers from the Foundation for Blood Research in Scarborough, Maine, say even when pregnant women have a mildly underactive thyroid gland and show no symptoms, IQ can be affected.The researchers, led by Dr James Ludwik...

Good News For Women With Gestational Diabetes

...he disease, called gestational diabetes, puts both mother and her baby at risk. Moms can develop high blood pressure or preeclampsia.// Their newborns are at risk for lung problems and occasionally die. To keep blood sugar under control, some women need to take a lot of insulin, especially if they are older...

The winter worry

...is caused by a defect in the placenta, which joins mother and baby and supplies the baby with nutrients and oxygen .It often starts in the latter stages of pregnancy.It is usually symptomless,however warning signs can be picked up through routine ante-natal checks. In its more advanced stages, mothers may...

Breast feeding can alter hormones

...chers.Chemicals called pheromones given off by the mother - or their infants - made the cycles significantly longer or shorter, claims Dr.Mclintock lead researcher, from Ohio University.// She suggests this is due to the body attempting to maximise its chances of fertility as part of a human's desire to ra...

The brain wave

...ch as learning to play music and sports, or when a mother teaches her daughter how to tie her shoelaces. The monther ties a shoelace and the child follows, trying to imitate the action. We would expect the same kind of lateralised brain activity in learning to tie shoelaces as there was in our experimental ...

Blood test can predict pre-eclampsia

...ally fatal seizures, liver or kidney failure. Both mother and baby are at risk. Wolf, and his colleagues looked at data from a study of more than 5,000 women who had various tests during pregnancy. They found 56 who had pre-eclampsia, and compared their tests to 90 women who did not. The pre-eclamp...

Anxiety likely to affect the foetus

...sted there was a chemical element as well. "If the mother is very anxious this changes her chemistry, her hormonal levels. For example cortisol,a hormone can cross the placenta and it may well affect the development of the baby's brain in the womb," she further added that every pregnant woman should take ti...

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