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Emergency Contraception Does Not Reduce Unintended Pregnancy Rate

...isting trials on a topic. In 2001, about half of pregnancies in the United States were unintended, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Now, the United States is working to lower the unintended pregnancy rate to 30 percent by 2010. Princeton University demographer James Trussell says ea...

Improper Abortions- Kenyan Teenagers At Risk

...er cent), pelvic abscess (10 per cent) and ectopic pregnancies (8 per cent). The study also found that, the m...s such as a perforated uterus, infections, ectopic pregnancies and infertility. AN...

Sons Gone Up In Smoke

...These results were reached by the analysis of 9000 pregnancies at the hospital between 1998 to 2003. The conclusions extended to passive smokers too- such mothers-to- be lessened their chances of getting boys. So who is the culprit and how does he work? Nicotine among others, say the scientists. Accordingly,...

New York Health Department Distributes Five Million Condoms in a Month

...stribution campaign also aims to prevent unplanned pregnancies and curb the spread of other sexually transmitted infections. Source-Kaiser Family Foundation/B...

Womb Transplant Pregnancy Success

...ave become pregnant. Professor Brannstrom said the pregnancies are now at about 120 days and would last another 2...an. The team had previously achieved successful pregnancies after womb transplants in mice. Peter Bowen-Simpkins, a spokesperson for the Royal College of Obs...

Being Sad Can Kill You

... more doctors should be aware of depression during pregnancies and that women on anti-depressants should not automatically stop taking them when they conceive. "I don't think women with a history of depression should discontinue their medication. I think they should go to a perinatal specialist who can recomm...

'School Sermons' Need a Comeback

...pport of old wisdom, in order to deal with teenage pregnancies and substance abuse-major public health challenges// of today. Improving pupil-teacher relationships and raising a teenager’s self-confidence by changing the very ethos(institutional culture) of a school will do the trick, say the researchers. In ...

Madhya Pradesh to Stop Sex Education in Schools

...ansmitted diseases, besides preventing unwarranted pregnancies during adolescence. Source-IANS...

Proteins in Microparticles Identified in Women With Preeclampsia

...m patients with preeclampsia who had uncomplicated pregnancies delivered at term by cesarean section. They found that microparticles released from the placenta contain a protein that regulates clot formation (plasminogen activator inhibitor-1). They also found that microparticles contain soluble Flt-1, which ...

A New Form of Spectroscopy to Assess Reproductive Potential of Embryo

...ed a metabolic profile of embryos that resulted in pregnancies as well as ones that did not. 'We found that proton NMR, a non-invasive nuclear magnetic resonance form of spectroscopy, will determine the metabolic profile of the embryo and accurately predict its reproductive potential,' said Seli, who plans to ...

Women Who Deny or Hide Pregnancies Get Little Psychiatric Care

Women who go to great lengths to hide their pregnancies or even convince themselves they are not pregnant ...e “relatively insensitive” to seeing these unusual pregnancies as a possible trigger for psychiatric evaluations. The small number of referrals may “indicate an ...

Research Improves Kidney Transplant Chances for Sensitized Patients

...ng they are on the list. Due to prior transplants, pregnancies or blood transfusions, these patients have developed antibodies that make it very difficult to match them with donor organs. Researchers at Emory University have developed a decision process, based on innovative technology, that may help to level t...

The Second Born Twin At Greater Risk

...ational Statistics (ONS). The data about 1377 twin pregnancies were thoroughly analyzed. Other factors like the duration of gestation, methods of delivery, mother’s age, race, the association between birth order and risk of death were extensively studied. In the end, it was concluded that complications arising...

Study to Look at Aspirin as Aid to Conception, Healthy Pregnancy

...regnant are not able to conceive, 15-31 percent of pregnancies that do occur end in miscarriage, and 8-15 percent of pregnancies that continue beyond 20 weeks end in premature birth, putting these infants at risk for increased he...

Family Planning Method is as Effective as the Contraceptive Pill

...d during the fertile period, the rate of unplanned pregnancies per year was 0.4% and 0.6% respectively. Out of al...B method, different ways of classifying unintended pregnancies and other methodological problems. “To be able to make an informed choice when selecting a family ...

Home-going Delayed for Miracle Baby

... Preterm births occur in about 12 percent of all pregnancies in the U.S., according to the National Institute of Health. AN...

A Combined Research for Producing Chlamydia Vaccine Begins

...ons including pelvic-inflammatory disease, ectopic pregnancies and infertility.' Bernard Arulanandam, an associate professor of biology who began studying Chlamydia six years ago, guides Murthy’s research. 'With the recent success of the human papilloma virus vaccine, developed to prevent cervical cancer in ...

More Women Opting for Caesarean, Unaware of Consequences

...uterus is a weak spot," Vetter said. In subsequent pregnancies there is a greater risk of placenta accreta (abnormally firm attachment of the placenta to the uterine wall) and uterine rupture. During a normal, vaginal birth, maternal-behaviour and bonding hormones are released. A c-section interferes with thi...

New Approach to Routine Prenatal Genetic Testing

...ogists (ACOG) that call for risk assessment of all pregnancies for fetal chromosomal abnormalities. Previous guidelines recommended testing women 35 years and older using amniocentesis or chorionic villus sampling, both considered invasive procedures that carry risks. ACOG now recommends screening before the 2...

Standard Therapy More Effective in Common Fertility Disorder

...t translate into a significantly greater number of pregnancies for the combination group. Dr. Legro said that these findings were consistent with earlier studies that also reported an increase in ovulation from the combined therapy and that these early observations had led to researchers’ initial enthusiasm f...

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