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Prenatal exposure to air pollution causes chromosomal damage

...ir of the metros can change the chromosomes of the fetus in womb. Pollutant particles emitted from the cars, trucks, buses, tobacco smoke, combustion etc can penetrate the placenta enough to harm the chromosome of the fetus. The research conducted by National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences, U...

Stress and mood fatigue may affect the diet in pregnancy

...n pregnancy is very important to the growth of the fetus and needs to contain the food elements like folic ...ly will work in favor of good health of the unborn fetus and the newborn child....

Roots of polycystic ovarian syndrome traced to mother’s wom

...d childbirth can unleash several factors in female fetus that can affect the incidence and intensity of pol... that several developmental pathways affecting the fetus may be responsible for the incidence of polycystic ovarian syndrome in daughters later in life. One ...

Twin pregnancy may be risky for the fetus

...plicated twin pregnancies may be more risky to the fetus than // thought before. Researchers of Imperial C...ut the factors that increase the death rate of the fetus in cases of monochorionic diamniotic twin pregnancies. Reference: Public Library of Science, June 2...

Pomegranate juice to check fetal brain injury

...hat pomegranate juice can prevent brain injury the fetus may be at risk from low oxygen and reduced blood flow in case of a pre-term delivery. Pomegranate juice contains polyphenols in high concentrations that have been linked with potential property of neuroprotection and anti-aging effects. Researcher...

Fresh warnings to doctors regarding abortion pill

...neous abortion is the loss of pregnancy, where the fetus cannot survive or is born before the 20th week of pregnancy. It occurs in about 15-20 per cent of all recognized pregnancies. Almost 80 per cent of the miscarriages occur in the first 12 weeks of pregnancy. The chance of a successful pregnancy after ...

Revolutionary Simple Pregnancy Blood Test Can Save Both Mother And Child

...perm and an ovum in the uterus, the formation of a fetus that is nurtured in the mother's womb. Pregnancy c...entire time frame of 40 weeks; from the minute the fetus is conceived to the moment of the birth. Being pregnant is a totally different feeling for the woul...

Exposure to tobacco smoke causes genetic damage in fetus

... pregnancy causes genetic damage in the developing fetus that can be detected at birth. Stephen G. Grant, Ph.D., associate professor of environmental and occupational health in the University of Pittsburgh Graduate School of Public Health re-examined data from the earlier study and shows that passive - or...

Women Less Likely To Conceive Post-Caesarean

...perm and an ovum in the uterus, the formation of a fetus that is nurtured in the mother's womb. Pregnancy c...entire time frame of 40 weeks; from the minute the fetus is conceived to the moment of the birth. Being pregnant is a totally different feeling for the would...

Womb may have impact upon Blood Pressure

...ier in human life. Scientists believe that when a fetus is undernourished, it diverts resources to areas i...nd skeletal growth is a good measure of the rate a fetus is growing, said Mark Hanson, director of the Center for the Fetal Origins of Adult Disease at Engla...

Worried About The Sensitive Skin Of Your 2 Year Old? Fetal Skin Cells To Offer Help

...ft. The skin cells that are taken from an aborted fetus and grown in the lab into a sheet-like covering, is said to act like a “biological Band-Aid”. The fetal cells were expected to act like a traditional graft, knitting together with the edges of the wound and being incorporated as part of the patient's...

New Information On Virus Goes Against The Age-Old Theory

...ces are not dangerous include the development of a fetus during a woman’s pregnancy and the production of milk by lactating women. The researcher and others had made an attempt to profile the host-virus system using the electrical engineering concepts of signal and image processing. Ultimately, the int...

Drugs As Alternative To Surgery After Miscarriage

...of pregnancies. With miscarriage, in some cases, a fetus dies in the womb, explained the study’s first auth...istics, and Prevention Research. In other cases, a fetus may no longer be present, and women may carry a placenta and sac of amniotic fluid. In all of thes...

Using Eyes As The Line Of Reference For Fetal Brain Imaging

...e challenges of imaging the fetal head is that the fetus can move during the study, making it difficult to obtain the required imaging views, especially when study time is prolonged. However, by drawing a line of reference through the eyes, and performing subsequent imaging along that plane, the three imag...

A call to epileptic mothers to help reduce birth defects

...rescribed class of medications. The risks to the fetus from anticonvulsant drug use occurs very early in the pregnancy and is compounded by the fact that nearly 50 percent of pregnancies in the United States are unplanned, leaving women unaware and unprepared for the potential risks. The Epilepsy Found...

Limb Regeneration In Humans: A Future Possibility

...orking out which genes govern wound healing in the fetus and which genes come into play in the adult, the team hopes to identify the genetic factors at work and develop drugs that would coerce the human body to heal itself when damaged. The work could mean that people who are severely scarred ...

Three Sisters Have One Baby and Make History

...vum ( or egg) and their eldest sister carried the fetus in her womb to complete the pregnancy. The egg w...ryo in her womb. The twin sister who carried the fetus said 'But I would definitely do it again if she wanted another baby. I just carried the baby for Al...

Abortion Does Not Increase Risk Of Depression In Women

...neous abortion is the loss of pregnancy, where the fetus cannot survive or is born before the 20th week of pregnancy. It occurs in about 15-20 per cent of all recognized pregnancies. Almost 80 per cent of the miscarriages occur in the first 12 weeks of pregnanc....

Sharp Increase In Morning-After Pill Sales Among British Women

...perm and an ovum in the uterus, the formation of a fetus that is nurtured in the mother's womb. Pregnancy c...entire time frame of 40 weeks; from the minute the fetus is conceived to the moment of the birth....

Autism nothing more than an extreme form of male brain development

...research has also pointed out that exposure of the fetus to male sex hormones such as testosterone during pregnancy can significantly affect these brain development patterns. Male fetuses produce these hormones from their testes, and female fetuses from their adrenal glands. The possibility of female ch...

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