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Laboratory Testing Can Identify Risk of Pre-Term Labor and Delivery

...r fetal fibronectin can predict whether a pregnant woman is at risk for early labor and delivery. Those at ...ension. The current approach for finding whether a woman will go into premature labor is the use of a clinical scoring system, risk classification, and pati...

Morning after pill effective up to five days after having unprotected sex

...days after having unprotected sex!!Earlier, once a woman crossed the 3-day barrier, the options to escape pregnancy narrowed. These were, surgical abortion or the abortion pill RU- 486, use of which is not legal in many countries. The scientists studied 300 women after they had unprotected sex and distrib...

Ductal lavage may detect early breast cancer

...esence of markers for this process suggests that a woman has breast cancer or precancerous breast cells, ac...mar. If the lavage detected precancerous cells, a woman could be followed more closely to see whether she developed cancer, Sukumar explained. Based on the ...

“Don’t fear long haul flights!” Vascular surgeon tells travelrs

...ts, that there is nothing to fear. The death of a woman on board an airliner, while she was flying a long distance flight, has sparked off this sudden debate that long flights can be fatal to many people. Dr. Scurr says this fear is unfounded and that people are just over reacting.He says that clot forma...

No harm in reducing prenatal check up to 3 - 6 times says WHO report

...ort adds weight to the notion that if the pregnant woman has had safe deliveries in the past and if she can...6 times. The idea is not to discourage a pregnant woman from going to a doctor. Atleast 3 - 6 visits are a must. But to cut costs, time and energy it is a g...

Negligent doctors asked to cough up 3 lakhs for death of patient

...rupees as compensation to the family of a pregnant woman who died due to aftershock of spinal anesthesia.The issue of doctors coming under the umbrella of consumer protection act has been a very controversial one with legal luminaries having diametrically opposite views on this. However these days doctors ...

Genetic influence in menopause

... be possible that a DNA test may be able to tell a woman exactly when she will have her menopause and this may enable her to make more informed choices about when to start a family and how to plan her career. The average age of menopause is 51, but some women stop menstruating much earlier or much later. B...

Silicon eye implants

...d be doing the implant of these micro chips in one woman and two men suffering from retinitis pigmentosa .The whole procedure would be about 2-1/2-hour and will take place in Central DuPage Hospital in Winfield, Illinois, where two of the patients underwent procedures last year. FDA has authorised for a...

Acupuncture for conception

...e multiple problems when it comes to conception. A woman is born with a certain number of eggs, hundreds are lost with each menstrual cycle and those that are left after 35 years are more fragile, making fertilization and normal conception more difficult.// Because the body rejects embryos that aren't de...

Menopause considerations

...udy. A team of Dutch researchers has found that a woman with one or more first-degree relatives with a his...erent to that of non-twin sisters. An individual woman cannot accurately predict her age at menopause without knowing the particular genetic factors involv...

Osteoporosis Drugs: right time to take-off

... from it. It is estimated that at the age of 50, a woman has a 40 per cent chance of developing an osteoporotic fracture during her remaining lifetime. Drugs, which are used to treat osteoporosis, can be grouped into two classes. The first category comprises agents, which limit the rate of bone loss and ar...

Hormone contraceptives lead to bone problems

...e effect on the bones as menopause -- preventing a woman from making new bone fast enough to keep up with the level of bone loss. The most significant dangers linked to DMPA, say other experts, occur when taken by young women whose skeletons are not yet fully formed. Those problems include a high risk o...

Contraceptives decreases Libido

...ies - to peak around the time of ovulation, when a woman releases an egg and can conceive a baby.// It has... the pre-menstrual, or luteal phase, just before a woman begins her period. In all the researchers looked at 60 women aged 18 to 40, and asked them to try ...

The phenomenon of sexual attraction

...also said the oral contraceptive pill could stop a woman producing pheromones and undermine her ability to pick up the right chemical signals from men. Scientists believe pheromones may help people choose biologically compatible mates....

Woman gets cancer from transplanted kidney

...self several years after her transplant. // The woman has made a full recovery, but her case underscores the importance of closely following patients after organ transplantation, according to researchers led by Dr. Sigurdur Bodvarsson of the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Analysis of the cancer cell...

FDA Approves Birth Control Skin Patch

... the fourth week. The treatment-free week allows a woman to have her period. Dangers associated with its use are similar to those of taking birth control pills, including greater risk of blood clots, heart attack and stroke. As with birth control pills, smokers are warned against using Ortho Evra due to ...

Good News For Women With Gestational Diabetes

When an expectant woman has diabetes during her pregnancy, the special form of the disease, called gestational diabetes, puts both mother and her baby at risk. Moms can develop high blood pressure or preeclampsia.// Their newborns are at risk for lung problems and occasiona...

Antenatal kerosene exposure endangers child's sight

...h as lead and mercury considered safe for an adult woman might not be safe for her unborn child....

Inherited gene important in ovarian cancer

...tion in a gene called BRCA1.// In these cases, the woman usually has a strong family history of the disease. We know that BRCA1 prevents tumours from developing, although it's not yet known in detail how it works. Now doctors at the University of Iowa have shown that BRCA1 malfunctions in up to a quarter...

Robots craft medical history

...sted in removing the gall bladder of a 68-year old woman using a remote controlled robot. This is termed as the world's// first long-distance operation in the medical history. The operation took place at the European Institute for TeleSurgery in Strasbourg. According to Jacques Marceausx it is a phenomen...

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