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Woman In Coma Gives Birth To Daughter

...d was on life support. Susan Torres, 26, had given birth to a two-month premature daughter, while being on life support. The medical practitioners of the Virginia Hospital Center in Arlington had kept her on the machines for three months after she was pronounced brain dead, for the sake of her unborn chil...

Women Less Likely To Conceive Post-Caesarean

... compared with 30.4 months taken by women who gave birth naturally. And they were more likely to suffer an ectopic pregnancy next time around, with 9.5 occurring per 1,000 pregnancies, compared to 5.7 per 1,000 pregnancies for women with spontaneous delivery. Future studies may help explain whether thi...

Vitamin Supplements During Pregnancy to Boost Fetal Development

Low birth weight babies are likely to be born to mothers who...e early months of pregnancy, to reduce the risk of birth defects involving the nervous system like spina bifida etc. An examination of the serum folate leve...

Study Links Folic Acid With Increased Birth Weight

...y// have a higher chance of having babies with low birth weight than anyone else. Researchers from Universi...folic acid or folate are associated with increased birth weights of newborns, and vice versa. Researchers have examined about 1000 cases of women and their ...

Making Fortification Mandatory In Order To Reduce Birth Defects

...tification as a means of stemming its high rate of birth defects. A new study shows that milk could be another application for increasing intake of the vitamin, as well as the bread and cereal products that are already enriched with folic acid through fortified flour in some markets. For the study 69 hea...

New Stem Cells lines will be required

...nlike reproductive cloning, will never result in a birth -- outlawed. A proposed measure by Sen. Sam Brownback, R-Kan., would outlaw the act of therapeutically cloning a human embryo. It would also ban the importation of products derived from therapeutic cloning. Vogelstein said such a ban could mean that...

Xenotransplantation “breakthrough”

The birth of five cloned piglets last week could significantly increase the success rate of pig-to-human organ transplantation, according to creators, PPL Therapeutics.Previous research has indicated that rejection of animal cells and organs by the human immun...

Head Size Risks for Alzheimer's

...luenced by nutrition, infection, family size, and birth order. This study is not enough to definitively link smaller head size with an increased risk of Alzheimer's....

Womb may have impact upon Blood Pressure

...l research. It has focused mostly on the effect of birth weight on health and the subsequent development of... you very little because babies can reach the same birth weight by many different paths of growth. Barker at the University in England said that because of ...

First Human Clone born

...d said that the girl was born by caesarean and the birth 'went very well'.// Because the effort by the Raelians to achieve the first human birth by cloning was carried out in secrecy, it was not immediately possible to obtain any independent sci...

No heart attack risk for women taking birth control pills

Recent studies on birth control pills have been linking them to increased ...es by stating that women who take third-generation birth control pills containing desogestrel or gestodene show no increased risk for heart attack compared t...

New birth control to limit women's periods

New birth control to limit women's periods Seasonale, a new ...aking the hormones generally found in conventional birth control pills, but for longer spans of time.// Seasonale would be another alternative for women se...

New !! Birth Control Option For Men

In the United States, women take care of birth control in 80 percent of relationships. With a new type of vasectomy, doctors expect more men will take charge. It’s called Vasclip. Specialists say, unlike the traditional vasectomy, they no longer have to cut the vas deferens that carries sperm ins...

Umbilical Cord Blood Could Predict Childhood Allergies

...ho had a sample of their cord blood serum taken at birth to measure IgE levels, which is an immune system response showing a sensitization to certain allergens.The children were assessed at ages 1, 2, 4 and 10 to determine if they had developed any allergies or asthma. Results show by age 4, one-fifth of ...

Decreasing Multiple Births By Single Embryo Transfers

...ted pregnancy rates resulting in at least one live birth and rates of multiple pregnancies. Results showed ...fer became pregnant resulting in at least one live birth compared to about 38 percent who received a single embryo transfer. The rate of multiple births in t...

Vitamins Found To Influence Birth Weight

Seven per cent of all babies born are low birth weight (less than 2.4kg or 5.5lbs) and they have a...ndition// as a result of being too light. Healthy birth weights are also generally a marker for good health in infancy and later life. Gynecologists say t...

Chicken Pox Hospitalizations Are Becoming Less

...loped chickenpox; thus, incidence approximated the birth cohort, with about 13,000 hospitalizations and 100 to 150 deaths annually. Varicella vaccine coverage has increased steadily, reaching 81 percent in 2002 among children aged 19 to 35 months nationally, while varicella disease incidence has declined i...

"An Armour against pleasure, and a cobweb against infection" – Has the condom withstood the test of time

...nova in the 17th century was using condom for both birth control and for protection against infection. The ...essary protection against the disease. Its use for birth control was only realized later!! 1700’s - Condoms made out of animal intestines were available. A...

First-Born Children Are Not At Increased Risk From Multiple Sclerosis

...S. However, until now, studies that have looked at birth order and MS risk have been small and therefore le...hip size, and compared this to the actual observed birth order. Overall, they found no link between MS risk and birth order position. In fact, for larger sib...

Watch out those of you planning for a predetermined Cesarean Section

...ntal caries are at risk for delivering preterm low birth weight babies....

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