Children's Hospital Boston presents at the 2006 Pediatric Academic Societies annual meeting
... 30, 2006 Presentation time: 9:15 AM Although teen pregnancy has declined over the past 15 years, similar decli... Hospital Boston investigated predictors of repeat pregnancy among 275 adolescent mothers receiving care in 2 urban hospital-based teen-tot clinics. The teens un...Researchers report technique for freezing and preserving genetically enhanced pig embryos
...se many embryos are needed to produce a successful pregnancy in surrogate female pigs, this new procedure will enable workers to collect an adequate number of altered embryos and store them until they can be transplanted to a surrogate. Swine embryos have been difficult to freeze and preserve because of their ...ACS weekly press package April 24th, 2006
...s are carriers, there is a 1 in 4 chance with each pregnancy that their child will have Canavan Disease. A carrier screening test is available(more information at www.ninds.nih.gov/disorders/canavan/canavan.htm ). Mutations in that single gene lead to the malfunctioning of an important brain enzyme called as...Carcinogens from parents' tobacco smoke found in their babies' urine
...st urine from newborns whose mothers smoked during pregnancy contained as much as one-third more NNAL compared to the babies in the current study. The newborn infants, however, took in the carcinogen directly from their mothers through their placentas rather than by breathing second-hand smoke in the air in th...Full year of treatment helps infants and children with toxoplasmosis
...tic program for screening for toxoplasmosis during pregnancy in the United States. The Genetics Newborn Screening Advisory Group noted that the rationale for screening for toxoplasmosis was as compelling as the rationale for detection of genetic diseases for which screening is now mandated in many states....Penn receives $4 million to establish a Center of Excellence in Environmental Toxicology
...n particular, has high rates of asthma and adverse pregnancy outcomes, such as low birthweight and birth defects, all problems that can have an environmental connection. Penn's Center of Excellence in Environmental Toxicology will not be housed in any one building. Rather, it will draw on the expertise of 50 ...OHSU studying drug for bone-deforming disorder
...Parents with OI have a 50 percent chance with each pregnancy of having an affected child and most children with the disorder have inherited it from a parent. About a fourth of all children with OI are born into families with no history of the disorder. Janet Reeder, M.S., PA-C, a former faculty member of the O...Schepens scientists are first to discover angiogenesis switch inside blood vessel cells
...ood flow after injury, prepares a woman's body for pregnancy and increases circulation in a damaged heart. But, it can also nourish cancer tumors and damage delicate retinal tissues when uncontrolled. The angiogenic process is triggered by what the body perceives as a need for additional blood flow. In the c...Study finds that a woman's chances of having twins can be modified by diet
...ngs of this study suggest that women contemplating pregnancy might consider substituting meat and dairy products with other protein sources, especially in countries that allow growth hormone administration to cattle," said Dr. Steinman. Dr. Steinman has been studying factors that cause or contribute to twinni...New research links placenta praevia directly to assisted reproductive techniques
...1,349 women who had conceived spontaneously in one pregnancy and after assisted fertility in the other. Regardless of whether it was the first or second pregnancy that was conceived through ART we found a nearly three-fold higher risk of placenta praevia. This su...Light-to-moderate prenatal alcohol exposure can lead to cognitive deficits 10 years later
Many people are aware that heavy drinking during pregnancy can result in Fetal Alcohol Syndrome. Recent ana..., many more children are exposed to alcohol during pregnancy who do not meet criteria for FAS yet experience deficits in growth and cognitive function." "Intelle...Low-to-moderate prenatal alcohol exposure lowers IQ at age 10
... researchers have found that heavy drinking during pregnancy leads to lower intelligence in children, fewer stu...tetricians about drinking when they are planning a pregnancy or when they learn that they are pregnant. Many women know about fetal alcohol syndrome and the effe...First study to show IVF single embryo transfer as successful as double transfer in older women
...omen undergoing IVF is just as likely to result in pregnancy and a live birth in those aged 36 to 39 as it is i...t we demonstrated for the first time was that the pregnancy rate, and in particular, the cumulative pregnancy rate, was very similar in the age group 36 to 39 t...Infant bone growth and maternal vitamin D levels during pregnancy influence future fracture risk
...ractures depends on how the bones developed during pregnancy and childhood, according to Dr. Kassim Javaid of t...orn to mothers with higher vitamin D levels during pregnancy have stronger skeletons (conference abstract OC9). Focusing on subjects from the Southampton Women's...Researchers identify protein associated with severe preeclampsia
...mpsia typically develops in the third trimester of pregnancy and is characterized by high blood pressure, edema and protein in the urine," explains the study's senior author S. Ananth Karumanchi, MD, a nephrologist in the Center for Vascular Biology at BIDMC and Assistant Professor of Medicine, Obstetrics and ...Teenage and 60-year-old mums are consequences of evolution
...arly twenties, yet Western society regards teenage pregnancy as a 'problem' and cannot cope well with them. W...s, and with fertility treatments for those seeking pregnancy in their 30s and 40s. We need to look at things not just in terms of the 21st century, but in the ov...New egg freezing technique offers hope to hundreds of women
...ival rate for the freeze-thawed oocytes and a high pregnancy rate of nearly 42% after the oocytes had been fertilised and implanted in the women. This pregnancy rate is practically the same as the rate we can achieve in our clinic using fresh oocytes." The Cryo...Study contradicts USA warning that an antidepressant can cause congenital abnormalities
...lenge because many patients opt for termination of pregnancy due to fear of congenital malformations. The FDA w...prospective follow-up study that collected data on pregnancy outcomes after medication with paroxetine in 119 women between 1990 and 2005. "Our national Teratolo...Three million babies born using assisted reproductive technologies
...tween countries. Dr de Mouzon said: "The average pregnancy rate for each cycle using fresh embryos was 25.1% ...ever, this has not resulted in a sharp drop in the pregnancy rate except in the USA, indicating that efficacy is improving. The average number of embryos transf...Baby girls born to mothers burdened by stress may be at risk for fibromyalgia
... Stressful or traumatic events experienced during pregnancy can have long-lasting effects on the fetus, yet th...of these studies' findings follow: Stress during pregnancy may put baby girls at later risk for fibromyalgia New research suggests girls who were born follow...