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New Study Will The Look Into The Effects Of Synthetic Steroids

...ped. Currently the best treatments are to give the mother synthetic steroids and to prolong the pregnancy for as long as possible. Sheep will be studied to learn how synthetic steroids given during pregnancy may act in the brain to alter regulation of blood pressure, affect the development of the kidneys ...

Unwed mothers find it difficult to attract potential life partner

...nlikely. The results point out that an unmarried mother was more likely to marry a man who was significantly older – at least six years older – than she. Overall, the results show that women who bear children out of wedlock do not fare well in the marriage market. Unwed mothers are disadvantaged economi...

Women might be at increased risk of HIV during pregnancy

...ings present a public-health problem, both for the mother and possibly for her unborn infant. It would therefore be prudent for women to be aware of this potential risk of HIV acquisition during pregnancy, and to promote safe sex, or sexual abstinence where feasible....

Terminally Ill deserves a better quality of Life

...-old Vivek passed away happy after seeing his poor mother and siblings getting one meal everyday and his wish of giving them a tour of Delhi was fulfilled. "There are no words of consolation that one can offer. Giving them dignity and relief from pain is the only thing one can do," said Gupta. "In most c...

Breast feeding can prevent HIV infection transmission

...he most beautiful periods in the life for both the mother and child where the bond for each other develops. ... feature, an attempt is made to make the expectant mother understand the various aspects of breast-feeding and its importance....

Controversy Surrounding The HIV Positive Reports Of One-Year Girl In Kerala

...d why this happened to their daughter. The child’s mother is worried about the lack of proper available treatment for the disease. The parents have been tested negative that has prompted the doctors to look out for other potential areas from where the infection could have been contracted. The incident has...

Anonymous Sperm Donor Traced On Internet

...Though the boy’s genetic father was anonymous, his mother knew the donor’s date and place of birth and his college degree. Using another online service, Omnitrace.com, he bought the names of all who had been born in the same place on the same day. Only one man had the surname he was looking for, and within ...

Dead Palestinian Boy Saves Lives Of Six Others

...al Centre in the Israeli town of Petah Tikvah, her mother seated by her bed holding her hand. Samah got a new heart last week, a heart that once belonged to a Palestinian boy//. At the same age as Samah, Ahmed al-Khatib was fatally shot during clashes in the west Bank city of Jenin last Thursday when Israe...

Imbalance In Gender Ratio Addressed By Religious Leaders

... a healthy child amounts to murder and insult to a mother who is revered in Indian tradition as being next only to god. Pre-conceptual sex selection, female infanticide and foeticide have contributed to the sex ratio declining in some parts of the country to 800 girls for every 1,000 boys. Punjab and Harya...

Programs for development of health in poor countries not effective

...signed to take action on five key fronts: reducing mother and infant deaths, tackling child poverty, preventing the spread of HIV/AIDS, and controlling malaria and tuberculosis. Current approaches must change if the goals are to be achieved more quickly. In curbing the spread of HIV/AIDS, treatment with f...

UK Govt Says On Course For National Chlamydia Screening

...sex. Chlamydia can also be passed from an infected mother to her baby during vaginal childbirth. Any sexually active person can be infected with chlamydia. The greater the number of sex partners, the greater the risk of infection. As the cervix of teenage girls and young women is not fully matured, they a...

Lip Piercing Can Be Fatal

The mother of a 17-year-old teenager named Daniel Hindle of C...iel got his lip pierced was not to blame. Daniel's mother Christina Anderson said that when her son died she had believed that the body piercing was the cause...

Scientist affirm mother’s advice

...e leading cause of the common cold.// So, if your mother always warned you to wrap up warm to avoid catching a cold, it seems she may have had a point. Scientists say they have the first proof that there really is a link between getting cold and catching one. Their study findings will appear in this we...

Caesareans In U.S. At All-Time High

...terus — a potentially lethal complication for both mother and child — in about 1 percent of such cases, worried doctors. Some hospitals have banned vaginal deliveries after C-section, or VBAC. The VBAC rate has dropped to 9.2 percent of births after a previous Caesarean in 2004, compared with 28.3 percent i...

Food Habits Could Change Your Genes

...uld be influenced by food supplements eaten by its mother just prior to or during the early stage of pregnancy. This study was conducted by researchers led by Randy Jirtle of Duke University Medical Centre in Durham, North Carolina. In the new study, the researchers injected L-methionine, a common amino a...

Scientist Affirm Mom’s Advice - Keep Yourself Wrapped Up To Avoid Cold

...the leading cause of the common cold. So, if your mother always warned you to wrap up warm to // avoid catching a cold, it seems she may have had a point. Scientists say they have the first proof that there really is a link between getting cold and catching one. Their study findings will appear in this...

Placenta Problems In Pregnancy Linked To Early Heart Disease

...oping fetus // eives oxygen and nutrients from the mother and gets rid of waste products. Doctor Joel Ray and his team at the University of Toronto studied over a million women who were free from cardiovascular disease before they had their first baby.. They followed what happened to the women for an aver...

Breast-fed Children Weather Digestive Disease

...t milk also contains certain immune cells from the mother that might confer protection against gluten intolerance, they said. The World Health Organization (WHO) recommends women breastfeed babies for at least six months. -- IANS...

Breastfeeding: A Boon For Cealiac Disease

...supported for the first year or longer if both the mother and child desire. Breastfeeding has been known to offer a host of benefits to the child and mother. Children who are breastfed have a lower incidence and severity of conditions such as diarrhoea, bacterial meningitis, and ear infections. Breastfeedi...

Domestic Violence: The Silent Killer of Women Worldwide

...high tide for the woman, a time when the expectant mother should be protected and nurtured in every way. Nearly 4 to 12% of the women reported episodes of getting beaten up during pregnancy. More than a half of them were either kicked or punched in their abdomen, inducing a miscarriage. Nearly 90% of them h...

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