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Infertility Breakthrough With First Birth from Lab-matured Egg

...hich has resulted in a live birth. The other three pregnancies are ongoing." The breakthrough was announced at ...mproved the success rate, noting that three of the pregnancies had been achieved in the past five patients. But he cautioned against giving rise to false hopes. ...

Test-tube Babies: Mood Swings are Key to Fertility Choice

...mbryos at the same time. Research has shown that pregnancies with single embryos suffer less complications and the baby is likely to have a higher birthweight and have fewer developmental problems than twins or triplets. On the other hand, multiple embryo implants, despite this risk, offer a statistically hi...

Womens Mood Plays a Key Role in Infertility Treatment

...making. A reduction in the incidence of multiple pregnancies with IVF requires the transfer of fewer, and ideally only one, embryo (single embryo transfer, or SET). However, many women resist SET because they either favour a multiple pregnancy, or prefer to accept the risk rather than take the chance of not ge...

Discourage Less Educated Women from Conceiving , Says New Zealand Academic

...y, could be used to reduce the number of unplanned pregnancies to less educated women. "The lower down the educ...d be a cause for some alarm," he said. Unplanned pregnancies by less educated women could be reduced, perhaps by future scientific advances. "I do have faith i...

Food Fortification With Folic Acid Does The Trick

... Researchers collected data on almost two million pregnancies from hospitals in seven provinces to observe changing rates of neural-tube defects between 1993 and 2002. A total of 2,446 subjects with such defects were recorded among 1.9 million births.Researchers discovered a 46 per cent overall reduction, and a...

Folicacid Reduces Congenital Malformations, If Added to Flour

...ven know theyre pregnant. Since half of Canadian pregnancies are unplanned and the human body cant store folic acid, it is better to integrate folic acid into the food chain than to focus exclusively on taking vitamin supplements, stated Dr. De Wals. Health Canada still recommends taking folic acid supplements...

India to Monitor Pregnancies to Check Girl Foeticide: Report

India plans a national mandatory registry of pregnancies and abortions to stem selective abortions of girl ...ts on areas with a large gap between the number of pregnancies recorded and births, the report said. Chowdhury also told the paper abortions should only be permi...

US Teen Birth Rate Drops to Record Low: Report

...31 per 1,000 among Native Americans. The rate of pregnancies among US teenagers, counting births, abortions and miscarriages, dropped by 40 percent between 1990-2002 to a record low of 44 per 1,000. In a study of sexual activity, the report said 46 percent of high school girls reported having had sexual inte...

Adding Folic Acid to Flour Lessens Congenital Malformations

...even know they're pregnant. Since half of Canadian pregnancies are unplanned and the human body can't store folic acid, it is better to integrate folic acid into the food chain than to focus exclusively on taking vitamin supplements," lead researcher, Dr. Philippe De Wals, said. The study included live birth, ...

Determining the Sex of the Baby in Wild West Way

...bing indeed. This can result in the termination of pregnancies in cases where the sex of the baby is not according to preference. There are still doubts on the accuracy of the tests. The experts are also concerned about the psychological aspect of these tests. If you have bonded with the fetus thinking its a boy...

Zeta-Jones is 'obsessed' With Smoked Salmon Sandwiches With Crushed Potato Chips

...he actress, as saying. "I had it with each of my pregnancies and I actually had it two nights ago for dinner. It's one of those comfort foods," she said. The Oscar winning actress also said though she drags herself to the gym, she ends up enjoying the workout session. "I'm not gonna lie and tell you I do [...

New Book Gives Gruesome Account of India Girl Killings

...e" -- stories of women forced to endure successive pregnancies to produce male children, and of others forced to ...ts on areas with a large gap between the number of pregnancies recorded and births. The government has in the past announced plans to encourage people to abandon...

Children Born After PGD as Healthy as Kids Born After ART

...aers. The scientists first collected data on the pregnancies by giving questionnaires to patients on the day of the embryo transfer. Additional questionnaires were sent during pregnancy, at delivery, and later on to the patients, their gynaecologists, and paediatricians. Children were examined at 2 months and ...

New Technology Makes Diagnosis of Abnormal Pregnancy Cheaper

...a very early stage and at affordable cost abnormal pregnancies that can lead to miscarriages and stillbirths . ...ove to be a boon for people suffering from ectopic pregnancies where fertilised eggs are found outside the uterus. It leads to miscarriages and stillbirths. An ear...

Morning Sickness may Signify Lower Breast Cancer Risk

...o suffer bouts of nausea and vomiting during their pregnancies may be envious of those ladies who don't, but it but it seems that going through morning sickness is a good thing after all. Or so say boffins who have conducted a new study and found that women who suffer from morning sickness have a 30 percent lo...

Food Council Makes Right Decision With Mandatory Folate Fortification

... to 49 neural tube defects in the 300-350 affected pregnancies recorded in Australia each year....

Brazil Government New Health Offer

...am in hopes of helping poor people reduce unwanted pregnancies and dangerous illegal abortions. This announcement comes just a month after President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva said the government would provide cheap birth control pills at 10,000 drug stores across Brazil. This action has won Jose Gomes Tempor...

Second-hand Smoke Exposure in Pregnancy Linked to Kids' Psychological Problems

...t disorder than children whose mothers spent their pregnancies in a smoke-free environment. However, they did not show more symptoms of emotional disorders such as depression or anxiety. "This is a matter of severity. Children with these disorders have a range of behaviors that stretch from problematic to seve...

Girls With Cancer Given Fertility Hope

...gs have yet been thawed, so we do not know whether pregnancies will result. But we are encouraged by our results so far." A spokesperson for the Teenage Cancer Trust said: "This offers hope to many young female cancer survivors that they may have a chance in the future of re-establishing their fertility." G...

Doctors Warned Against Encouraging Elective Caesareans

...concerned with the placenta. Based on a million pregnancies recorded by the US National Center for Health Stat...pregnancy complications. 'More than 1 percent of pregnancies with a prior caesarean section had one of these events, which had a 50 percent increase compared to ...

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