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Infertility Breakthrough With First Birth from Lab-matured Egg

...sed with advanced ovarian disease, and three other women in the 20-person trial group are pregnant by the s...aid. Doctors already collect and store eggs from women who face cancer treatment that could cause sterility. The eggs -- harvested after stimulating the ...

First Baby Born from Eggs Matured and Frozen in the Lab

...osted for later use. The news provides hope for women who have had sudden ovarian failure or who cannot ... been linked into a successful birth. Three more women from the 20 participants in the study are also now pregnant, giving a 20pct overall success rate. Th...

Insecticide-treated Bed Nets to Combat Malaria in Older Children and Adults

...ubsidised bed nets for young children and pregnant women in order to achieve over 80 percent coverage in these high-risk groups. The study was conducted by a team of researchers led by Dr Gerry Killeen at the Ifakara Health Research and Development Centre in Tanzania. As part of the study, researchers ...

Drinking Problem Plagues 30% Americans

...f abuse, and men were more than twice as likely as women to report struggling with a drinking problem. People with alcohol use disorder (AUD) only 24.1 percent of people with alcohol dependence received treatment of any type. Alcohol dependence, also know as alcoholism, is characterized by impaired cont...

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

... Newton said he next planned to see whether giving women full and accurate information about risk influenced their decision on how many embryos should be transferred. 'If infertility patients were to gain a better understanding of the risks and benefits of transferring more or fewer embryos, and the acce...

Daily Dose of Dark Chocolate Helps the Heart: Study

...on 44 adults from 56 to 73 years old, including 24 women and 20 men, who suffered from pre-hypertension or stage one hypertension. Participants were randomly assigned over 18 weeks to eat either dark chocolate containing 30 milligrams of healthy polyphenols or white chocolate, which has no cocoa. For t...

Complementary Therapy may Reduce Pregnancy Chances in Women

...UK, will say that her research had also shown that women who used complementary therapies were more negativ... that were not proven to improve fertility. Many women use complementary or alternative therapies (CATs) to resolve fertility problems, even though there i...

Egyptian Clerics Say Female Circumcision Un-Islamic

... practice, which affects both Muslim and Christian women in Egypt and goes back to the time of the pharaohs...ice was carried out on 97 percent of the country's women aged between 15 and 45 years of age. In the latest fatality, 12-year-old Bedur Ahmed Shaker was ta...

Mother Donates Eggs So Daughter can Give Birth

...ertility, Tan said. Turner syndrome often leaves women incapable of producing eggs but with healthy wombs...age where we can offer the same treatment to other women who may have children with problems of infertility." "With egg freezing we can offer women who do ...

Elderberry A Natural Boost to Skin

...-week trial starting in September, post-menopausal women will consume either extracts from elderberries or placebo capsules, and will have their skins structure and appearance measured with state-of-the-art equipment used by experts in skin science. At the same time, researchers will also test whether the ...

Australian Father Gets 15 Year Jail Term for Forcing Bestial Acts on His Daughters

...found it difficult to imagine worse conduct on the women than that committed by their father. "The young girls were humiliated and degraded," Judge Clayton told the court. "They have suffered emotionally since the time of the offending and will no doubt continue to suffer for the whole of their lives. ...

Men, Not Women, Spend a Longer Time on the Phone!

It is an accepted fact that women are the biggest chatterboxes, but a new study has ...day, as compared to 22 minutes in 2002. However, women spend only 26 minutes, which has come down from 35 minutes five years ago, reports the Daily Mail. ...

Aguilera's Dad Confirms Her Pregnancy Rumours

...singer hopes to follow the footsteps of successful women who have managed their careers and kids well. "Christina's seen women with great careers, like Gwen Stefani, also raise great kids, and she feels as if she can follow the...

Ambitious Gastric Cancer Research Project Proposed in Singapore

...er Society. It occurs most frequently in men and women above 40 years old, and is more common in Chinese than Malay or Indian. There is no scientific conclusion of the actual cause of gastric cancer, people with family history of gastric cancer, high consumption of smoked and salted food, lack of Vita...

Epilepsy Increases Suicide Risks

...pilepsy and its management." It has been seen that women with the illness were more likely to take their own life then men. The incidence of suicide decreased as sufferers grew older. In fact, more quickly, than in the non- epileptic population. ``Improvement of epilepsy care, introduction of new drugs w...

Anti-depressants Do Not Increase the Overall Risk of Most Birth Defects

...s, Dr. Katz added. The March of Dimes recommends women discuss the potential risks and benefits of taking...epressant suddenly. About 10 percent of pregnant women in the United States suffer from depression, some of it undiagnosed. The studies have been publish...

South Africa Notes Signs of First-ever Decline in HIV Infection Rates

...-natal survey showed HIV prevalence among pregnant women had dropped to 29.1 percent from 30.2 percent the ...d 24." The survey was carried out among pregnant women attending state clinics and hospitals, and its findings are used as an indication of the national HI...

Diabetics Risking Health by Using Alternative Medications Without Consultation

... with some form of alternative therapy. Elderly women who had been living with diabetes for longer, and people interested in self management of their condition were the most likely to use alternative therapies, said the researcher. "People will tell their alternative practitioners that they are using...

Diabetic Skip Jabs to Stay Slim

.... Diabetes UK says that ups to a third of young women with the disease miss the life- saving injections ...hem manage the problem. After this Dozens of young women have contacted a phone-in on BBC Radio 1 to report that they skipped injections because they felt un...

Women's Empowerment Key to Curbing AIDS: UN

Gender equality and the empowerment of women are key to slowing the spread of AIDS, the United ...f the white gay male is now increasingly affecting women all over the world," he told some 1,500 delegates. In sub-Saharan Africa, 60 percent of all adults...

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