Status of some prescription drugs
...g considered, ranging from blood pressure drugs to birth control pills. But there are inconsistent views ab...ncerns in objecting to making other drugs, such as birth control pills, more readily available....Relationship bertween birth weight and IQ
...ren at age seven to study the relationship between birth weight and intelligence.They found that on average, IQ at age seven is directly related to birth weight, while factors such as the mother's age, race, education and socio-economic status were also ...Pregnancy weight linked to breast cancer
...men who fail to drop the added pounds after giving birth are most at risk. Pregnancy weight may impact cancer development because levels of the hormone estrogen, which are already raised during pregnancy, are amplified in fat tissue....Down syndrome life anticipation doubles
...t Down syndrome children were institutionalised at birth or soon after," she said. "Respiratory illnesses which are common in children with Down syndrome would not have been treated as vigorously as in others, and they were on the bottom of the list for cardiac surgery until the mid 1980s. Growing up at ...Sex timing has no impact on risk of Birth defects
...n when a couple has sex and any subsequent risk of birth defects such as Down syndrome. Animal studies have... that the timing of sex might increase the risk of birth defects in offspring.// Dr. Joe Leigh Simpson, a professor of obstetrics and gynecology at Baylor C...Gestational Diabetes linked to Chromosomal defici
...alities in a US study in the 1990s. Those who gave birth were then followed for one year. The investigators found that women who developed gestational diabetes were twice as likely to have children with chromosomal defects--a prevalence of just over 4%, compared with roughly 2% among women without gestati......ew study shows early interference after women give birth may lower the prevalence of incontinence. Incontinence is loss of bladder control and is a symptom not a disease. Many conditions can cause incontinence,// including pregnancy or childbirth. According to the group, one in four women between ages 32 ...Boys reduced mother's life expectancy
...cause they grow faster in the womb, are heavier at birth and require more care after birth. They suggested ...searchers wrote: Their results suggest that giving birth to sons had a higher relative long-term survival cost for mothers than giving birth to and raising d...Birth weight may be influenced by genes
...plays an important role in determining a newborn's birth weight. Based on genetic analysis of six generatio...that genes account for 45% of the inconsistency in birth weight. The research also indicated that DNA in the cytoplasm--the jelly-like substance that surrou...Men happy to take contraception
...he male partners //of women who had recently given birth what contraceptives they used and how they felt about a male contraceptive hormone. Dr Grath Weston from the Centre for Women's Health Research, lead author of the study, felt that the group is likely to be the first ones who would take it up. Of th......s. Folate has been proven to minimise the risk of birth defects such as spina bifida by up to 70 per cent, with one in 300 Indian pregnancies affected by a neural tube defect. Neural tube defect can cause a wide range of disabilities such as loss of bladder and bowel control and paralysis of the legs. In ...... onset of blindness, a process which begins before birth so infants are born partially blind. Bennett's team injected the eyeballs of dogs born with LCA with cells modified to contain the appropriate functional genes which restored the animals' sight.Humans are next"This is a dog model of a human disease,......levels of lead in the women’s bones at the time of birth corresponded to lower mental functioning of the children at age 2.Experts believe that lead builds up in the bones when people are exposed to the metal over a period of time. It can they stay in the bones for at least 15 years. So their prediction i...Breastfeeding may decrease Breast Cancer Risk
...tionally, there was a 7-percent decrease for every birth regardless of whether the mother ever breastfed. Valerie Beral, one of the researchers in the study, says, "The results of this study are a major step forward in our understanding of why breast cancer is so common in developed countries." Researcher...Link between birth weight and Insulin Resistance
According to researchers in England, a baby's birth weight is connected to the mother's insulin resist...s participated in the study. Researchers found, as birth weight increased every 2.2 lbs, women had a 12% risk of being among those with the highest insulin r......ll newborns receive an injection immediately after birth to prevent bleeding. The vitamin is found most commonly in leafy green vegetables and is made by bacteria //in the intestine.Since newborns do not have bacteria established, they need supplemental vitamin K. An Adequate Intake level of 120 microgra...... twins was one in 320 due to lack of oxygen during birth and one in 420 for lack of oxygen due to mechanical problems. Researchers say these absolute risks are high in comparison with similar data for singleton term births in Scotland over the same period. Researchers say planned caesarean delivery may off...Offspring's birth weight affected by father's diabetes
...e is an association of diabetes in fathers, to the birth weight of their offspring. In contrast to overweight children given birth by women with diabetes, children born to men with// diabetes are likely to weigh less than other chi......that the factors could be as varied as infections, birth defects, blood-clotting disorders and birth trauma. Researchers claim that if risk factors of stroke in infants is identified, it would help in ...