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Risk Factors of Drinking Before, and During, Pregnancy

... available to women that such a high proportion of pregnancies are unplanned." Furthermore, she added, the women who had planned their pregnancies were significantly less likely to drink alcohol during the first trimester than women who did not pl...

The Pill Comes Under the Spotlight

...s from clinical studies that show the incidence of pregnancies to// have increased by twice over the last 10 year...ng the pill for a year. Newer pills allow over two pregnancies in a similar group of women. Experts say this may be partly because new pills have fewer hormones ...

FDA To Reconsider Standards for Reviewing Low-Dose Oral Contraceptives

...sed to a given product and the number of unplanned pregnancies that result. According to FDA documents, the ag...he Journal reports. FDA said that the number of pregnancies in clinical trials has increased in new oral contraceptives with lower dosages of estrogen and proge...

Counseling Helps Young Women Cut Drinking, Improve Contraception Use

...near future. But Floyd says about half of all U.S. pregnancies are unplanned. “If a woman is drinking at risky levels and doesn’t know she is pregnant, the fetus has been exposed to ethanol, a teratogen, in that first eight to 12 weeks when all the fetal organ systems are developing,” Floyd said. A teratogen i...

Folic Acid Supplementation in Bread: Boon to Neonates and Curse to Pensioners

...ng run. The pain of the neonates Every year 750 pregnancies are terminated due to reports of neural tube effects and around 150 kids are born with spina bifida. If a women was to take 400 micrograms of folic acid from the time they stop contraceptive measures till the 12th gestational week. Since in UK 50%...

NHS Suggests Doctors To Treat More Patients At Home

...ring with life-threatening conditions like ectopic pregnancies and blood clots on the lung - the report added. Many doctors, who fear the drive to get patients treated in the community is accelerating in an effort to close down district general hospitals, greeted the recommendations yesterday. The report a...

Underweight Moms: Weighed Down by the Risk of Miscarriages

...st trimester). They also studied 6,000 women whose pregnancies continued successfully to full term. The team from London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine found that women who were underweight stood a greater chance of miscarriage. Women were clubbed as underweight when their Body Mass Index (BMI) was l...

'Prevention, Cultural Changes Must Lead AIDS Battle'

...ual health and the benefits of preventing unwanted pregnancies in combating the disease. Each day, 1,500 childr...ption is already preventing about 170,000 unwanted pregnancies annually that would have resulted in HIV-positive infants. The group says that number could be doubl...

Pregnant Women With Placental Infection Have Doubled Risk of Recurrence

...e women who developed the infection in their first pregnancies tended to have longer labors, premature water breaking, labor induction, use of internal monitors and longer second stages of labor, among other factors, compared with noninfected women. All of these differences were statistically significant, the re...

Steep Rise in Number of Babies Born Out of Wedlock

.... This study has found that the number of teen-age pregnancies has dropped last year. The single women who gave birth to babies out of wedlock were mostly either waiting to get married or in a living together arrangement. Stephanie Ventura, the co-author of the study said, "A lot of people think of teenagers...

Sex Education Not Effective In UK

...een playing the major influential factor for early pregnancies and suggests the parents to talk to their children more on sex. "It is clear that economic circumstances still largely determine the likelihood of teenage pregnancy. To have a stronger impact, alternative interventions should be considered." – says a...

Hypertension During Pregnancy Increases Later Heart and Kidney Disease Risk

...and stroke—were compared to those of women who had pregnancies without hypertension (normotensive) or who had nev...ion) was 1.5 times higher. Women with hypertensive pregnancies were also 1.5 times more likely to develop high blood pressure after age 40. Hypertension during p...

One-Third of Scottish Pregnancies, a Mishap

A study has found that nearly one-third of pregnancies in Scotland have been accidents, throwing a big //surprise to prospective parents, who are totally unprepared for it. Researchers analyzed the surveys of almost 4,000 women who participated in prenatal classes at an Edinburgh hospital, and additio...

Late-life Pregnancies Risky, but Births are Good: Study

...o their babies. That doesn't mean that late-life pregnancies should not be attempted, researcher Russell Kirby of the University of Alabama at Birmingham said. Kirby was a researcher on one of the few other published studies to examine birth outcomes among women 50 and older. Researchers from Israel's Sheba ...

Maternity leave mooted for South African girls

...y problem and formulate guidelines on dealing with pregnancies in schools. There has since also been talk of sp... (25 dollars) per month. The theory linking teen pregnancies to state support has been around for some time, as South Africa's attempt to explain the ongoing hig...

‘Comprehensive Sex Education’ Favored Against ‘Abstinence-Only’ Progams

...t avoiding sex , which includes methods to prevent pregnancies and sexually transmitted diseases. "Abstinence-only programs, while a priority of the federal government, are supported by neither a majority of the public nor the scientific community," they said. The Abstinence-only sex education is not as ...

Amniocentesis Safer for Pregnant Women

...commonly prescribed invasive test performed during pregnancies in the United States. Most women fear them while doctors// recommend them based on guidelines from the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists. These guidelines stem from past research studies and recommendations by the CDC that were base...

Sex Among Teens More Rampant says Irish Reports

...s).There is 70% chance of ending up with unplanned pregnancies and the chances of going through the trauma of abortions gets tripled. Although women between the ages of 18 and 24 admitted that they do use contraception, an elusive 10% admitted that they don't usually when under the influence of alcohol or drug...

Cause of ‘Down Syndrome’ cannot be pinned down to maternal age aloe

...later age can be riskier than late second or third pregnancies . A larger gap between pregnancies too seem too favor Down’s Syndrome. Down Syndrome is the result of the genetic abnormality trisomy ...

C-Section A More Common Choice Nowadays

...ser chances of having vaginal births in subsequent pregnancies becase they tend to request repeat elective caesarean delivery. According to two consultant obstetricians and a professor in obstetrics and gynaecology who wrote in this week's British Medical Journal, argue that without increases in junior doctors'...

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