Marijuana use could cause tubal pregnancies
...ease Control and Prevention, about 100,000 ectopic pregnancies occur in the United States each year (out of more than 6 million total pregnancies) and account for about 9 percent of all pregnancy-related deaths in the country. Risk factors include pelvic inflammatory disease, which can scar the fallopian tubes, ...Folic acid vitamin use by women reaches all-time high, March of Dimes survey finds
...e born with these defects, and additional affected pregnancies result in miscarriage or stillbirth. To help prevent NTDs, the March of Dimes says, all women capable of becoming pregnant should consume a multivitamin containing at least 400 micrograms of folic acid every day beginning before pregnancy, ...Joslin Diabetes Center launches research section on developmental and stem cell biology
...ich occur two to five times more frequently in the pregnancies of women who have diabetes, result from failure to induce specific genes needed to prevent cell death and induce differentiation at the very earliest stages of embryonic development. Her laboratory has shown that pathways activated by excess glucose ...Gestational diabetes not found to alter the metabolic processes in obese pregnant women
...ve with type 2 diabetes (n=1). Other than GDM, the pregnancies were uncomplicated. Eight other women were recruited, none of whom had a history of abnormal glucose tolerance either before or during a previous pregnancy (i.e., the NGT group). All subjects were planning to conceive as soon as the baseline pre-preg...Chlamydia in men now also linked to infertility new findings
...k as there was no difference in the outcome of the pregnancies between IgG positive or negative couples. (150 of the 244 couples achieved pregnancy 58.7% spontaneously and 41.3% via treatment). The finding that infection or the presence of Chlamydia antibodies in the infertile men is linked to reduced fertility...Risk of preeclampsia rises sharply with increased pre-pregnancy body mass index
...isk. Preeclampsia affects about 7 percent of first pregnancies nationwide, and is characterized by high blood pressure and protein in the urine. The condition has negative sometimes lethal consequences for the mother and fetus by causing reduced blood flow to organs. Having had preeclampsia also increases mate...Pre-term labor drug sensitizes brain to pesticide injury
...re labor occurs in approximately 20 percent of all pregnancies in the United States. Of those, an estimated 1 million women annually are treated with terbutaline or related drugs to halt the early contractions. The drugs administered to pregnant women also penetrate to the fetus where they affect brain developme...Freeze-dried sperm can fertilize rabbit oocytes
...t was still-born, a common outcome of single-birth pregnancies in rabbits. The researchers believe that improvements in their procedure will someday enable freeze-dried sperm of mammalian species to be stored indefinitely at room temperatures....Toxin combo common in fish appears capable of impairing motor skills
...re exposed to both toxicants during their mothers' pregnancies slipped significantly more often than their control counterparts. Exposure to either of the chemicals alone did not significantly impact performance. However, Schantz said, the tests showed that PCB exposure contributed more than did the m...Preventative bed rest during pregnancy may be more harmful than helpful
... University, consisted of 141 women with high-risk pregnancies who were treated with hospital bed rest. According to the results of the $1.7 million study, bed rest contributes to weight loss in the mother (when weight gain is imperative at later stages of pregnancy) which in turn is associated with an increased...Equine cloning's triple play sheds light on calcium, cell signaling, human disease
...gnancy rate of transferred clone embryos. Only two pregnancies lasted two weeks without manipulating calcium levels.Nineteen pregnancies lasted two weeks or more with calcium treatments. Of 21 pregnancies detected at two weeks, 11 lasted...Advances in equine cloning may aid insight into human diseases
... growing and behaving normally. After prototypical pregnancies for equines, the births of the foals in May, June and July last year were normal and unassisted and the each foal stood within 20 minutes of birth....Substances found in blood may predict development of preeclampsia
...of blood vessels. Pregnant women who carry normal pregnancies to term also have sFlt-1 in their blood. In these...evels beginning in the 13th to 16th weeks of their pregnancies and lower VEGF levels during and shortly before preeclampsia. Dr. Levine explained that he and hi...Two-drug approach might shorten painful labor, reduce Caesarean sections
...sed for many years in other countries to terminate pregnancies early. Since the late 1990s, several clinical investigators have reported that RU 486 can be used to induce delivery at term pregnancy. It has been found to effectively induce labor and delivery within three days of administration, but "with no clear...Teenage pregnancy may put girls at risk for osteoporosis
...n the United States, and one-half million of these pregnancies result in live births. In addition to the socio-economic challenges that often accompany early parenthood, pregnant teens face dramatic nutritional demands. A recent study by researchers with the Center for Human Nutrition at the Johns Hopkins Bloomb...New advances in thrombosis help further understanding of disease prevention
... number of previous pregnancy losses and length of pregnancies before previous losses (three or more pregnancy losses in first trimester, two or more losses in second trimester, or one or more losses in third trimester), and type of thrombophilia. Treatment with enoxaparin was given throughout the pregnancy and...Doppler ultrasound predicts risk of miscarriage
...Consultants in Oak Brook, Ill. "Over 99 percent of pregnancies with an abnormal Doppler pattern do not continue." The Doppler test measures the speed of red blood cells moving through vessels to determine pressure dynamics within the embryo's heart. Miscarriage is the most common complication of human gestat...UGA scientist to study effect of air quality on unborn babies
...lood and urine samples from the women during their pregnancies and postdeliveries. And they'll collect samples of meconium, a baby's first feces, and umbilical cord blood from the newborns. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention will analyze the samples. "This study will help us understand the magnitude...International scientific body calls for ban on human reproductive cloning
...f Sciences. "Experience has shown that most cloned pregnancies fail or result in stillborn or deformed offspring. Even if these problems can be solved, serious ethical problems will remain that no one can ignore." "Human reproductive cloning is already illegal in some countries," Qur adds, "but other countries h...... 33 transfers of early embryos into surrogates, no pregnancies were established, Dr. Schatten and his colleagues reported. Among the key structures involved in cell division is the mitotic spindle, which functions to precisely align and separate chromosomes. However, in cells originating as a result of nuclear-t...