Placental Problems in Women Linked With Caesarean Section
...via and placental abruption during the subsequent pregnancies of women who previously had a caesarean section. ...aevia and placental abruption in singleton, second pregnancies after a caesarean delivery in the first pregnancy. Data provided by the US National Centre for Hea...Spit Test Kit on the Cards to Ascertain Pre-eclampsia Risk
...n be averted with a simple saliva test. One in ten pregnancies is fraught with such risks and one in fifty, suffers a virulent repercussion of pre-eclampsia. This test in its development phase in the United Kingdom, addresses the risks of pre-eclampsia in the initial stages itself so that repercussions on the ...Late Clamping of Umbilical Cord may Reduce Anemia in Children
...g of the umbilical cord of newborns from full-term pregnancies (that is, infants born after a nine-month pregnancy) two minutes after the infant is expelled from the womb makes no difference to hematocrit or hemoglobin levels of the umbilical cord vein compared to clamping the cord within 20 seconds. Thus, the s...Research Favors Aspirin In Prevention Of Pre-Eclampsia
... high blood pressure, affects between 5% and 8% of pregnancies and may cause abdominal pain, headaches and swelli...re-eclampsia before, those women carrying multiple pregnancies and women over 35 years of age."...UK too Will Insist on Folic Acid in Bread
...omen adhere to this advice. Also, up to half of pregnancies are unplanned, meaning women may miss the opportun...and Hydrocephalus, which said about 85 per cent of pregnancies affected by neural tube defects ended in abortion. Andrew Russell, its chief executive, said: "We ...Delivering Baby, the Natural Way.
... labor and birth and those women with more complex pregnancies may need a doctor too."...Sleep Apnea Increases Risk of Diabetes and Hypertension in Pregnant Women
...ay open. The researchers analyzed data from all pregnancies associated with sleep apnea, gestational diabetes ...ional diabetes, 67 had sleep apnea. Of the 200,902 pregnancies with pregnancy-induced high blood pressure, 166 had sleep apnea. The repetitive decrease in oxyge...Sheep Offer Model for Undernourishment in Pregnant Teen Girls
...se studies may also have implications for managing pregnancies of adolescent human females, who, in increasing numbers worldwide, are bearing offspring before they have finished growing. A team of scientists, headed by Dr. Jacqueline Wallace of the Rowett Research Institute in Aberdeen, Scotland, found that li...Malaria and HIV Jointly Affects Pregnant Women and Their Infants
...ominantly prone to PAM whereas women in subsequent pregnancies become protected against PAM. But HIV virus leads to the hammering of protection and makes them as vulnerable as first-time mothers. To discover how HIV affects PAM, Kain and his team collected samples from women in the first pregnancy as well as f...Toolkit to Assess Reproductive Health Needs of Displaced Women
...reproductive health concerns such as ensuring safe pregnancies and deliveries, and responding to and preventing violence against women. CDC decided to develop the toolkit in 2003 after receiving repeated requests for assistance to assess reproductive health needs in conflict settings. The toolkit includes step...March of Dimes Praises Folic Acid Fortification
...orn each year with an NTD, and additional affected pregnancies result in miscarriage or stillbirth. The most common NTD is spina bifida, a leading cause of childhood paralysis. Another NTD is anencephaly, a fatal condition in which a baby is born with a severely underdeveloped brain. Maternal and child health ...HIV and AIDS Pregnancies Considerably Reduced- South African Health Minister
...re is a considerable decrease in the HIV and AIDS pregnancies among the women of South Africa. No figures were given. "This is mainly as a result of our continued focus on prevention as the mainstay of our response to combat HIV and lead to an HIV-free society," Minister told parliament during a speech on her...Men and Women Change Attitudes to Sex When in an Intimate Relationship
... more likely one is to see the penalty of unwanted pregnancies and sexually transmitted diseases, he said. Men in our sample appear to walk a fine line between wanting the risky sex that society says they should have and paying the price for having had it, he said. Not surprisingly, women were more likely t...Police Recover Remains of Fetuses from Haryana Maternity Home
...rmine the sex of unborn fetuses and termination of pregnancies based on gender, unscrupulous medical practitioners still carry out this highly profitable, but unethical business. According to the Government data, Rajasthan, Punjab, Haryana, Gujarat, Himachal Pradesh and Chandigarh have heavily skewed sex rati...Placental Problems in Women Linked With Caesarean Section
...ia// and placental abruption during the subsequent pregnancies of women who previously had a caesarean section. ...aevia and placental abruption in singleton, second pregnancies after a caesarean delivery in the first pregnancy. Data provided by the US National Centre for Hea...Doctors Warned Against Encouraging Elective Caesareans
...concerned with the placenta. Based on a million pregnancies recorded by the US National Center for Health Stat...pregnancy complications. 'More than 1 percent of pregnancies with a prior caesarean section had one of these events, which had a 50 percent increase compared to ...New York Governor to Introduce Bill to Strengthen Abortion Rights
...include a provision allowing for abortions late in pregnancies to protect a woman’s health. New York state laws on the books also treat abortion as a homicide, but with broad exceptions that allow the procedure in many cases. Spitzer’s proposal would remove abortion from criminal statutes and make it a ma...Stillbirth Figures Stand Still
...atistics of the early 1990’s. More than one in 200 pregnancies resulted in stillbirth, the survey showed. The investigation into Maternal and Child Health (CEMACH) revealed that there were 3,600 stillbirths in 2005. This trend appeared to be common with the below 20 age group, the above 40 and amongst the et...Legalization of Abortion in Mexico City Raises Heckles
...and the Caribbean, where women who interrupt their pregnancies are still sent to jail,' said activist Elba Garcia, 24, who rode a flatbed truck in an abortion rights caravan through downtown Mexico City on Monday. The New York-based Center for Reproductive Rights, the legal arm of the reproductive rights movemen...One-fifth of Obese Women Undergo Caesarean Due to Uterus Failure
...g overweight women must be classified as high risk pregnancies and appropriate antenatal care should be provided so they receive the optimum care during maternity." Source-Eurekalert/B...