Gurgle.com Explains How to Spot the Signs of Antenatal and Postnatal Depression

While many women will have heard of the 'baby blues' and postnatal depression, some may be surprised to hear that depression during pregnancy is also quite common - this is referred to as 'antenatal depression.' Gurgle.com tells you how to spot the signs, discover the causes and find out how you...

Doctors Warn of Deficiencies in Antenatal HIV Testing

Last month, the BMJ reported that rates of mother to child transmission of HIV are dramatically reduced by antiretroviral use, caesarean section, and avoidance of breastfeeding. However, none of these interventions can take place without awareness of the mothers HIV status, argue two senior doctor...

Group B Strep Screening Guidelines Sparing Newborns

...l and Prevention while conducting the study. "Recommendations for universal antenatal screening were rapidly adopted, and this corresponded with further declines...ly tested negative for GBS at 35 to 37 weeks of pregnancy. "Although the antenatal screening strategy has been very successful, we are also exploring ways tha...

Andrews Women's Hospital Receives National Recognition At Achieving Success In Women's Health Conference

...ter for easy access -- offers comprehensive maternity services, the area's largest Level III Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU), gynecologic care, an antenatal testing center, and a Midwife Center. Specialty services include a nurse navigator for breast cancer patients and services for reproductive medicine. ...

The Children's Mutual and Bounty Announce Arrival of New Child Trust Fund Partnership

...on on a wide range of issues affecting families. Bounty's pro-active involvement with new parents through its online community and offline activity in antenatal units and maternity wards puts the organisation in touch with 90% of all pregnant families in the UK. Post birth, The Children's Mutual is now the cho...

Multiple Doses of Steroids Don't Help Preemies

...The results of this trial will change clinical practice worldwide," she said. "It will conclusively stop practitioners from giving multiple courses of antenatal corticosteroids." The report was published in the Dec. 20/27 issue of The Lancet . Dr. William F. Walsh, chief of nurseries and a specialist in...

More can be done to prevent lung disease in Southeast-Asian babies

...hts an important gap in South-East Asian hospitals in the practice of using antenatal corticosteroids prior to preterm birth. "For infants born premature, the...sia, the Philippines and Thailand throughout 2005. They found the use of antenatal corticosteroids to be one of the least performed beneficial interventions i...

National study shows magensium sulfate reduces risk of cerebral palsy in premature births

...sium sulfate administered to women delivering before 32 weeks of gestation reduced the risk of cerebral palsy by 50 percent. The Beneficial Effects of antenatal Magnesium Sulfate (BEAM) trial was conducted in 18 centers in the U.S., including Northwestern Memorial, and is the first prenatal intervention ever f...

Maternal malaria researcher wins prestigious international prize

... Burma where they saw many pregnant women dying from malaria. By organising antenatal consultations for all pregnant women to screen their blood every week durin...quickly and treat them before they developed into severe infection. "The antenatal screenings were very time intensive, but the system worked beautifully," sa...

Factors affecting survival, disability of extremely premature infants identified

...weight, gender, whether the baby is a twin and whether the mother was given antenatal steroid mediation to aid the babys lung development are all factors that af...nhanced if they were of older gestational age, their mothers had been given antenatal steroids, they were female, they were singletons rather than part of a mult...

Antenatal in Medical Technology

National Study Shows Magnesium Sulfate Reduces Risk of Cerebral Palsy in Premature Births

...sium sulfate administered to women delivering before 32 weeks of gestation reduced the risk of cerebral palsy by 50 percent. The Beneficial Effects of antenatal Magnesium Sulfate (BEAM) trial was conducted in 18 centers in the U.S., including Northwestern Memorial, and is the first prenatal intervention ever f...

New UNAIDS Report Offers Encouraging News, But Most HIV-Positive Mothers Still Not Getting the Care & Treatment They Need

...r of new infections among children declined from 460,000 in 2001 to 420,000 in 2007, and that HIV declined in pregnant women age 15 to 24 who attended antenatal clinics in 11 of the 15 countries analyzed. However, with 2.5 million children living with AIDS and most of them infected through mother-to-child tran...

Antenatal in Medical Dictionary

Hydronephrosis

...l pelvis collecting ... Postnatal management of antenatal hydronephrosis ... antenatal (before birth) hydronephrosis (fluid-filled enlargement of the kidney) ... The treatment of antenatal hydronephrosis depends on the underlying cause. ...

Hearing screening

...; TC requirements and recommendations for hearing screening ... ... baby's Hearing Screening Test: ... Where does hearing fit with other antenatal and newborn screening ? ... How is hearing screening provided in your area? ... operating successful universal newborn hearing screening ...

Glucose

...ith prediabetes have blood glucose levels higher than normal but not high ... Glucose control ... Continuous glucose monitoring as part of antenatal care for women with diabetes ... Questions Over Value Of Glucose Monitoring For Non-insulin Using Diabetes ... Abstract and Introduction: The ...

Fetal

...re birth. The plural is fetuses. In humans, the fetal stage of prenatal development starts at the beginning of the 11th week in... Prenatal or antenatal development is the process in which an embryo or fetus (or foetus) gestates during pregnancy, from fertilization until birth. Often, the terms fe...

Fetal

...re birth. The plural is fetuses. In humans, the fetal stage of prenatal development starts at the beginning of the 11th week in... Prenatal or antenatal development is the process in which an embryo or fetus (or foetus) gestates during pregnancy, from fertilization until birth. Often, the terms fe...

Fetal development

... Prenatal or antenatal development is the process in which an embryo or fetus (or foetus) gestates during pregnancy, from fertilization until birth. Often, the terms ...

Antenatal in Biological News

Study finds 'rescue course' of antenatal steroids improves outcome in premature babies

WASHINGTON, DC In a study to be presented today at the Society for Maternal-Fetal Medicine's (SMFM) annual meeting, researchers will unveil findings that show that premature babies born before 34 weeks have a 31 percent reduction in serious complications when given a "rescue course" of Antenatal ...

Debate on admin. of magnesium sulfate to pregnant women to prevent cerebral palsy in pre-term infants

...ingham, offers his clinical opinion on the use of MgSO4 to prevent cerebral palsy. He notes that "three large, randomized placebo-controlled trials of antenatal magnesium sulfate (MgSO4) for fetal neuroprotection have recently been conducted and reported. The results of these trials provide strong support for ...

Preterm birth: Magnesium sulphate cuts cerebral palsy risk

...ful molecules that can damage or kill cells, and it improves blood flow under some circumstances. The researchers reviewed data from five trials of antenatal magnesium sulphate therapy, which together included 6,145 babies. Overall 63 women at risk of very preterm birth had to be given magnesium sulphate to...

Maternal health problems in Myanmar widespread

...pregnancy and displaced women were more than 5 time as likely to receive no antenatal care. Human rights violations, like displacement and forced labor, were are...ties in eastern Burma. Mullany, along with colleagues, documented access to antenatal care, skilled attendants at birth, postnatal care, family planning services...

Antenatal in Biological Technology

New England Journal of Medicine Study Highlights Need for Rapid, PCR-based Group B Streptococcus (GBS) Testing at Time of Admission for Labor and Delivery

... SUNNYVALE, Calif., June 24 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Cepheid (Nasdaq: CPHD ) today noted that a new article, Evaluation of Universal antenatal Screening for Group B Streptococcus, published in the June 2009 issue of the New England Journal of Medicine concluded that rapid, PCR-based testing ...