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Thalidomide may stage a comeback

...ever, it was banned after mothers who took it gave birth to deformed children. The European Agency for the...h year. Earlier, Dr. Claus Newman, a specialist in birth defects stated that thalidomide is a unique drug with powerful effects potentially for harm and good...

Chance of water births being urged for mums-to-be

A major child birth charity has urged midwives and hospitals in the UK...a waterbirth. According to the charity, labour and birth in water offers a number of benefits over conventional practices for healthy women with an uncomplic...

Smoking habit affects your baby's health

...ere is an increase in the risk of delivering a low birth weight baby or delivering before the due date and your baby's lungs are hindered from developing completely. If you keep smoking, you can expect your newborn baby to catch more colds, coughs, middle ear infections and more severe problems like bron...

Depression drugs help baby

...um depression in the first six months after giving birth affects 12 percent to 15 percent of new mothers. Symptoms include low self-esteem, feelings of inadequacy, inability to enjoy// the baby or usual activities, lack of energy, insomnia, lack of concentration and irritability. Researchers studied 78 bre...

Boys demand more than girls, even before birth

... the puzzle of why baby boys are so much bigger at birth than girls, their mothers eat more during pregnancy. Women carrying male embryos consume about 10 percent more calories, eight percent more protein and have a higher intake of carbohydrates and animal and vegetable fats. It is widely accepted that on...

Shorter infants have lower incomes in later life

...n had been measured an average of 18 times between birth and age 12, measurements that the researchers link...r cognitive function. Boys who grow better between birth and one have better educational achievements and they make more money when they're fifty. Since, in ...

ASPIRIN MAY HELP LOWER PREGNANCY RISK

...e rate of spontaneous preterm births decreased and birth weights increased with aspirin therapy, they said....

Stroke and the Pill

Healthy women who take the newer, lower-dose birth control pills are not increasing their risk of stroke, finds a new study. Ever since birth control pills debuted in the 1960s, doctors have worried the pills could increase a woman’s risk of ...

Changes in cabin pressure pose risks for moms-to-be

...ose experienced when flying. Experts say spikes in birth rates that may sometimes appear after major weather events are more likely the result of stress or other factors than they are the result of air pressure changes....

Smoking and Oral Contraceptives:

...e has long been a question of whether being on the birth control pill could increase your chance for cancer...creased risk of death among the women who used the birth control pill compared to the women who never used oral contraceptives. In fact, the numbers suggest ...

Test tube babies, 25 years later

...e also shown that IVF babies have a higher risk of birth defects and low birth weight, but researchers aren't sure why. The cost is another obstacle. IVF is rarely covered by ins...

Wait Between Pregnancies

...Scotland studied nearly 90,000 women who had given birth twice between 1992 and 1998. Results of the study ...s such as premature birth, neonatal death, and low birth weight. Even women who did not have complicated first pregnancies were at an increased risk for prem...

Dental Procedure Reduces Preterm Births

...and root planing -- may reduce the risk of preterm birth in pregnant women with periodontal disease, //according to a new study. Researchers from the University of Alabama at Birmingham school of dentistry studied more than 350 pregnant women who had periodontitis -- a gum infection that destroys the fibe...

Smoking and its Effects

A new study shows young adults who had very low birth weights are likely to experience more damage to their lungs from smoking than others born at higher birth rates. //The study, conducted by researchers from the University of Melbourne in Australia, reports ...

Weight and Blood Pressure

...ld. Researchers also had data on the participants’ birth weight and childhood social class. Researchers report a consistent negative association between birthweight and systolic blood pressure from age 36 to 53 years old. Researchers also say those in a lower socio-economic class in childhood had higher b...

Diabetes, obesity rates shooting up

.../and two-thirds overweight. But life expectancy at birth continues to rise, reaching a new record high of 77.2 years in 2001, up nearly 2 years since 1990. Girls born in the United States in 2001 can expect to live 79.8 years, an increase of one year from 1990. The life expectancy for boys born in 2001 was...

Low Birth Weight infants could have Problems in the Future

... learning and school problems and an extremely low birth weight in children from different countries. The ...e school difficulties are a serious concern of low birth weight infants in all four countries. They add, as doctors continue to save low birth weight infants...

Drugs said to Reduce HIV Transmission to Baby

...r birth. The infant's HIV status was determined at birth and six to eight weeks later. According to the study, 15 percent of the babies given the combination therapy were HIV-positive compared to 21 percent of the babies given nevirapine alone. Of the babies who were HIV-negative at birth, 7.7 percent of ...

Memory said to automatically improve with age

... the brain from the memory that recalls a spouse's birth date or a friend's name. And intelligent memory grows with age. Intelligent memory helps people figure things out faster and sparks creativity. It does this by storing memories and skills learned over time.The brain then uses this knowledge to help ...

Prevention of Rickets

...dered a problem and prevention should start before birth and researchers suggest pregnant women should be given vitamin D supplementation.// Rickets is a childhood disorder involving softening and weakening of the bones, primarily caused by lack of vitamin D, calcium, or phosphate. It is most likely to oc...

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