Small babies who gain weight too fast have higher BP as adults
...anding of the factors that contribute to it during pregnancy and early childhood, says Law....Alcohol preferences among pregnant Native and African American urban women
Alcohol consumption during pregnancy places the fetus at risk of Fetal Alcohol Syndrome...Many people are aware that drinking alcohol during pregnancy can place the developing fetus at risk of Fetal Alcohol Syndrome (FAS), the largest preventable caus...Using cocaine during pregnancy may damage developing fetuses, causing lifelong learning disabilities
New Haven, Conn. Taking cocaine during pregnancy causes possibly permanent changes in an area of the brain that governs short term memory leading to symptoms that are very much like attention deficit hyperactivity disorder, Yale researchers have found in two recent studies. The research team in t...Pregnancy and childbirth a major cause of death among Afghan refugee women
...alth care for women of reproductive age results in pregnancy and childbirth being major risk factors for death among these Afghan women. There are an estimated 3.6 million Afghan refugees, the largest refugee population in the world. Linda Bartlett and colleagues from the National Centres for Disease Contro...Cycled light promotes growth in pre-term infants
...erm if born before 37 weeks gestation. A full-term 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 res...Scleroderma research receives a boost from multiple NIH grants
...ells move between mother and child during pregnancy and may remain in either or both. This project studies blood cells from scleroderma patients and controls to determine their origin and role in the development of scleroderma. T Cells in the Pathogenesis of Systemic Sclerosis, Chr...New report links birth defects, premature birth to being overweight before pregnancy
"Weight before pregnancy matters," Says March of Dimes task force SAN DIE...tion and Optimal Human Development. "Weight before pregnancy matters much more than people realize, even health professionals," says Richard J. Deckelbaum, M.D.,...Oral diabetes drug shows promise in preventing miscarriage in common infertility disorder
...in has not been shown to cause any problems during pregnancy in animal studies, its use throughout pregnancy has not been rigorously studied in human beings. ...Research links level of spina bifida defect and need for shunt after newborn surgery
...l nervous system, a developmental failure early in pregnancy leaves an opening in part of the bone and tissue covering the fetuss spinal cord. Depending on the severity of the defect, the newborn may suffer paralysis, bowel and bladder problems, and fluid pressure on the brain. Surgery performed on newborns wi...Suicide the leading cause of death among young adults in China
...mes greater than from medical complications during pregnancy and childbirth. The overall suicide rate in women was 25% higher than in men, mainly because of the large number of suicides in young rural women. Rural rates were three times higher than urban rates-a difference that remained true for both sexes, fo...Cedars-Sinai researchers to present findings at Amerian College of Cardiology Scientific Meeting
...syndromes, atrial fibrillation, imaging protocols, pregnancy and heart disease, urgent vascular conditions, and clinical trials. PEPTIDE VACCINE Cedars-Sinai cardiac researchers, working in collaboration with Swedish investigators, have developed a novel vaccine to prevent plaque buildup in genetically engin...Parents can help black teen girls talk about condom use
... females who rarely talked with the partners about pregnancy and STD prevention were also 50 percent less likely to report condom use during recent sexual episodes, says Richard A. Crosby, Ph.D., of the Rollins School of Public Health and the Emory Center for AIDS Research in Atlanta. This finding is consiste...3D ultrasound telehealth system first commercial test at Indian reservations
...en means problems arent detected until late in the pregnancy when treatment is more difficult, costly or complicated. Pine Ridge and Rosebud had mean infant mortality rates considerably higher than the United States latest rate of 8.5 per 1,000 live births from 1990-1994, with rates of 25.1 and 18.5 respectiv...Intensity modulated radiation therapy at Fox Chase Cancer Center
... similar to what is used to monitor a fetus during pregnancy and is used every day during the radiation treatment. We use multiple tools each day of treatment in order to locate the prostate and spare any healthy surrounding tiss!ue undo exposure to radiation. And as the radiation technology is becoming more ...Long-term use of oral contraceptives could increase risk of cervical cancer for women with HPV
...V infection to balance the benefits (prevention of pregnancy and cancers of the ovary and uterus) and harms of long-term oral contraceptive use, and suggest that long-term users of oral contraceptives should be included in cervical screening programmes." In an accompanying Commentary (p 1080), David Skegg fro...Sexual revolution and teenagers is explored in ASAs magazine, Contexts
...xual intercourse dropped 5.7 percent, and the teen pregnancy rate was down 14 percent. Risman and Schwartz found that, while the data show declining sexual activity, claims of a sexual conservatism among teens is somewhat exaggerated if not misinterpreted. Several rigorous studies indicate that the number of...Parents recognise benefits of postmortems
...ent counselling service after losing a baby during pregnancy or infancy about their experience and views of the postmortem examination. Of the 166 women who completed the questionnaire, 81% agreed to a postmortem examination on their baby. The most common reasons given for agreeing to an examination were wanti...Simple blood test may be able to predict risk of preeclampsia
...blood test conducted during the first trimester of pregnancy may be able to identify women at risk for preeclam...pants who delivered single children in their first pregnancy and identified 45 cases of preeclampsia. They compared data on those women with information from 90...Excessive weight gain during pregnancy can increase breast cancer risk, study finds
...try. Information about breast cancer diagnosis and pregnancy weight gain were obtained from a national cancer r...study participants. Significant weight gain during pregnancy may cause changes in breast tissue that increase susceptibility to breast cancer in later liferoughl......or bipolar disorder, being pregnant or at risk for pregnancy (planned or otherwise), and use of other drugs or remedies with psychoactive properties, among others. Patients were randomly assigned to receive St. John's wort (900 mg to 1,500 mg per day), sertraline (50 mg to 100 mg per day) or placebo. Each trea...