First pregnancies reported using a new, needle-free device for administering hormones to IVF women
...echniques in terms of number of eggs collected and pregnancy rates. This is the first time that the J-Tip has been used in reproductive medicine and we can report the first pregnancies achieved using this system. The study shows that the J-Tip is capable of delivering hormones in a new and less invasive way....Dont turn to assisted reproduction too quickly warns US expert
... fertility rates overall. "On average the time to pregnancy increases with the age of the woman. The percentag...n the number of menstrual cycles needed to achieve pregnancy and in the probability of being classified as clinically infertile a definition applied after a yea...Women with a history of pregnancy complications should receive screening
...ests that women with a history of complications in pregnancy may be at increased risk of diabetes and heart dis...ealth education. Women who develop diabetes during pregnancy (a condition known as gestational diabetes) are at increased risk of diabetes and should be screened...Prenatal zinc supplementation could impair childhood mental development
...ions to improve maternal nutritional status during pregnancy on a broad range of outcomes including infants' development."...Complex physical learning may compensate for prenatal alcohol exposure, study shows
...evelopmental disorders. Simply not drinking during pregnancy could prevent such damage, but a 1998 survey by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention found both increasing rates of drinking by pregnant mothers and FAS in the last 15 years. "The disorders associated with fetal exposure to alcohol are, by ...American Thoracic Society Journal news tips for August (second issue)
...vestigating the effects of maternal smoking during pregnancy in children from 12 Southern California communities,the researchers found that the lack of a common genotype called glutathione S-transferase (GST)M1 in the children appeared to play a significant role in the development of asthma and wheezing among ...Testing earlier for gestational diabetes a smarter way to screen pregnant women
...nant women for gestational diabetes at 16-weeks of pregnancy is a more efficient way to screen for the disease ...cause most doctors believe that screening later in pregnancy is more accurate. However, he said, "Screening at 16 weeks is a better predictor of gestational diab...Heart, heart-lung and lung transplant recipients can have successful pregnancies
...rson, from 25 transplant centers nationwide on the pregnancy outcomes of 42 female organ recipients, including ...that mothers who have health problems going into a pregnancy generally are at greater risk to have some deterioration in health. "Some transplant centers have ...Study shows oral contraceptive use by young women does not contribute to weight gain
...trics and Gynecology "Oral contraceptives prevent pregnancy the same way in teenage women as they do in adult women," said Richard Legro, M.D., co-investigator and associate professor of obstetrics and gynecology, Penn State College of Medicine. "However, we know very little about how a teenager's metabolism ...One in one hundred babies in the US are involved in a car crash while in the womb
...same age range, the researchers caution that early pregnancy may not be known or pregnancy status accurately reported from the data system. Other research by the authors was cited suggesting ...FDA approves Avapro for treatment of diabetic kidney disease in people with high blood pressure
...p than the control group. In addition, as soon as pregnancy is detected, patients should discontinue Avapro therapy (see boxed WARNING regarding Use in Pregnancy in full prescribing information). In earlier clinical hypertension trials, there were no significant differences in adverse events between Avapro an...New medical study finds safe, effective relief for morning sickness in unique honey ginger tonic
...hoice of treating the nausea and vomiting of early pregnancy with things like soda, crackers or crushed ice, which are only marginally helpful, or trying prescription or over-the-counter medications, which may have potential side effects. The September/October issue of Alternative Therapies in Health and ...Nighttime is the right time to prevent preterm labor with aspirin
...used lower aspirin doses, started therapy later in pregnancy or gave it at different times of the day. The doub...stresses that women should not take aspirin during pregnancy without a doctor's supervision. Although the low dose used in this study appears safe, higher doses...Equation rivals ultrasound in calculating birth weight
...ey delivered prematurely, smoked cigarettes during pregnancy or had medical complications Characteristics used to estimate fetal birth weight included thegestational age at delivery, maternal height, maternal weight, third-trimester weight gain rate, number of priorchildren and fetal sex. Using these six varia...New test predicts pregnancy problems long before they happen
...e preeclampsia is to eliminate its cause, which is pregnancy itself," says lead author Ramon C. Hermida, Ph.D.,...T), can be used as early as the first trimester of pregnancy to identify 93 percent of women at high risk for blood pressure complications several months later. ...Mothers who drink during pregnancy may increase children's cancer risk, study shows
Women who drink alcohol during pregnancy may put their daughters at a higher risk of breast.... "Our study shows that alcohol consumption during pregnancy is likely to increase not just the mother's breast cancer risk, but her daughter's as well." Hilak...Drinking during pregnancy: Information may not be enough
...e medical and official position on drinking during pregnancy has been to recommend abstention. A Danish study...jority of the women considered some alcohol during pregnancy to be acceptable. Numerous studies have clearly shown that heavy drinking during pregnancy is the l...Supportive mothers ease harm of prenatal alcohol exposure
...ren whose mothers drank alcoholic beverages during pregnancy have difficulty relating to their mothers and may ...ad stopped drinking, their drinking patterns after pregnancy were not related to coping skills or attachment behavior, despite previous research that has shown t...Children exposed to alcohol before birth show deficits
...the age of 14, children whose mothers drank during pregnancy fell behind in weight, head circumference, height and skinfold thickness compared with those whose mothers abstained. The size of the growth deficits was directly related to the amount of alcohol consumed. The clinical implications for the children's...Children's Hospital Boston releases results at the American Academy of Pediatrics Annual Meeting
...luid, umbilical cord blood and the placenta during pregnancy can be engineered into increasingly specific types of fetal tissues that may be useful in repairing life-threatening congenital defects. The study will be presented at the AAP 2002 National Conference in Boston by Dario Fauza, MD, from the Surgical R...