Walking Or Bed Rest OK For First Stage Of Labor, UT Southwestern Research Shows
...f analgesia for pain and the percentagesof forceps deliveries and Caesarean sections. "Labor and delivery outcomes were unrelated to walking, and infants'outcomes were also similar in the two study groups," Bloom concluded. "Walkingneither enhanced nor impaired active labor and was not harmful to the mo...Federal, private funding to establish inflammatory disease center at UNC
...educe the incidence of premature, low birth weight deliveries by 18.2 percent,"he said. "This would save almost 32,000 lives a year and a billion dollars inintensive-care unit costs."......gue that obstetricians rarely attend uncomplicated deliveries and that this may drive some female obstetricians ...er are exposed to both traumatic and uncomplicated deliveries and also deal with women who have had caesarians post-operatively, write the authors. This, they sa...Post-cesarean delivery dilemma: to cesarean again, or not?
...ecommending that women who'd had previous cesarean deliveries consider vaginal birth; at other times, another ce...recommended it more and more. The rate of cesarean deliveries peaked in 1988 at 24.7 percent, the study notes. Data published in the 1980s and early 1990s deta...Risk of uterine rupture during labor higher for women with a prior cesarean delivery
...y. The rate of uterine rupture for repeat cesarean deliveries without labor for women having a previous C-section was 1.6 per 1,000 women. Uterine rupture was highest where prostaglandin, a naturally-occurring substance in the body administered to induce labor, was used for the second birth -- 24.5 per 1,000 ......re low. Likewise, the volume of low birthweight deliveries per physician varied, with the "very high"supply regions having fewer low birthweight infants per neonatologist than the "very low" supply regions. The weakly positive correlation between neonatologists and neonatal mid-level providers per live birth...High rates of caesarean section do not reflect women's preferences
... finding is many of the patients who had caesarean deliveries never went into labour. Caesarean delivery was decided on before admission in 23% of women in the public sector and 64% of women in the private sector. Many Brazilian obstetricians may believe that a caesarean section is actually safer for the newbor...Cycled light promotes growth in pre-term infants
...m pregnancy is 37 to 40 weeks gestation. Pre-term deliveries are costly both financially and emotionally for families, and the infants are at risk for multiple health and developmental problems. By creating an environment that may encourage growth, the Duke research suggests, these pre-term complications may b...No greater risk if physician delivers fewer babies
...hysicians into 3 groups: low volume (fewer than 12 deliveries per year; 72 physicians, 549 births); medium volume (12-24 per year; 34 physicians, 871 births); and high volume (25 or more per year; 46 physicians, 3024 births). Both before and after adjusting for several maternal and infant characteristics, the a...Reproductive tourism: Italy faces 'womb drain' as ART becomes better in other European countries
...reased to 27%, but the average numbers of multiple deliveries has decreased to 26%. There has been a trend towards a reduction in the numbers of embryos transferred in each cycle. This is very good news. Overall, the report provides evidence that the quantity and quality of ART in Europe is increasing."...Grant of 20 million to establish the Schistosomiasis Control Initiative
..., it will add an annual drug treatment to the food deliveries provided by the World Food Program, an organization that reaches several million children. Dr Alan Fenwick, Director of the Schistosomiasis Control Initiative, comments: "The misery and ill health caused by schistosomiasis is so unnecessary. There ...Device measures force used to deliver a baby
...approved pilot study, testing the device during 15 deliveries performed by physicians and a midwife. The partici...inventors, using the device in a lab in which mock deliveries are performed using a baby-size doll. Generally, physicians or midwives apply minimal force on the c...Women feel unprepared for operative deliveries
...sses do not adequately prepare women for operative deliveries (caesarean sections, use of ventouse or forceps), according to study in this week's BMJ. Researchers interviewed 27 women who had undergone operative delivery in the second stage of labour at two UK hospitals between 2000 and 2002. Many women felt un...Risk of stillbirth on weekends
...orn on weekdays. Preferential timing of high-risk deliveries and differences in quality of perinatal care may be factors that contribute. A new study in the Canadian Medical Association Journal, Michael Kramer an internationally recognized researcher in this area and colleagues examined over 3 million birth...Manual techniques may ease tough deliveries without need for episiotomy
...Gurewitsch estimates, and up to a quarter of these deliveries can result in an injury to the baby's brachial ple...e severe "stuck shoulder" births at Hopkins during deliveries between 1993 and 2003, and evaluated records from legal cases nationwide in which babies sustained p...Study suggests brain haemorrhage in babies over age one month unlikely from traumatic delivery
...d subdural haemorrhages: three were normal vaginal deliveries (6% risk), five were delivered by forceps after an attempted ventouse delivery (28% risk), and one had a traumatic ventouse delivery (8% risk). All babies with subdural haemorrhage were assessed clinically but no treatment was needed. All babies with...Fetal heart monitoring ineffective at diagnosing cerebral palsy
...e last hour of the first stage of labor in vaginal deliveries or the hour prior to delivery in cesarean deliveries. "We may need to go back to the drawing board," Althaus said. ...Cutting-edge science offers improved care for liver diseases
...he team collected UCB samples from full-term human deliveries (in Japan) with informed consent, and cultured the isolated cells with a combination of relevant growth/differentiation factors. UCB cells were transplanted into SCID mice carrying a gene modeling chronic liver injury. SCID mice are used to examine...Good results with only one egg in in-vitro fertilization
...the Sahgrenska Academy in Gothenburg have compared deliveries in two groups of women who underwent IVF. Half of.... "The results show that there were nearly as many deliveries in both groups: 42.9 percent of the women in the two-embryo group gave birth, compared with 38.8 per...Inadequate sleep in late pregnancy may influence labor and delivery
...rs and were 4.5 times more likely to have cesarean deliveries than women who averaged seven or more hours of sleep. Women who averaged between six and seven hours of sleep per night were 3.7 times more likely to have a cesarean delivery. The study appears in the December issue of the American Journal of Obstet...