Beyond Tom Cruise - the bigger ultrasound picture
..., businesses are inappropriately offering keepsake fetal ultrasound without medical benefit. The AIUM devel...s, obtain a picture of the fetus, or determine the fetal gender without a medical indication is inappropriate and contrary to responsible medical practice. A...Johns Hopkins study suggests link between caffeine dependence and family history of alcoholism
...uences, including spontaneous abortion and reduced fetal growth. Government health agencies in the United States, Canada and the United Kingdom have issued health warnings about limiting the use of caffeine during pregnancy. The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has advised pregnant women to "avoid caffein...Chemical used in food containers disrupts brain development
...er possible long-term health risks associated with fetal exposures to BPA have also been discussed in recen...lopment equivalent to the third trimester of human fetal development through to the first few years of childhood. Although best known for its function as a ...AIUM discourages the sale and use of ultrasound equipment for personal use in the home
...ltrasound has never been shown to have any adverse fetal effects, the use of ultrasound at home by untraine...s, obtain a picture of the fetus, or determine the fetal gender without a medical indication is inappropriate and contrary to responsible medical practice. A...Twins' lower IQ levels than single-born children not down to social factors
...womb than other children and are prone to impaired fetal growth....New 'eye movement' test may help treat fetal alcohol syndrome
... of tests that can be used as diagnostic tools for fetal alcohol syndrome and all of the other behavioural disorders classified under the broader term fetal alcohol spectrum disorder is tremendously valuable," says Dr. Reynolds, who is part of a $1.25-milli...Studies clarify risk factors for mother-to-child transmission of hepatitis C virus
...a risk factor in both studies) and use of internal fetal monitoring devices (a risk factor in the U.S. stud...support existing recommendations to avoid internal fetal monitoring and prolonged laborin infected women," wrote the U.S. authors. In an accompanying editori...Growth patterns into childhood reveal risk of coronary heart disease later in life
...s award-winning research program that examines the fetal origins of chronic disease in adults. "Rapid weight gain may lead to a high level of body fat in relation to muscle. This may explain why this growth pattern is related to insulin resistance and, thus, coronary heart disease." Researchers found n...Research on premature birth boosted with $10 Million NIH grant
... uterine stretch, maternal psychosocial stress and fetal physiological stress, more understanding is needed to implement effective interventions. Prakash Nadkarni, M.D., associate professor of anesthesiology and EPH, and Kei Cheung, assistant professor at Yale Center for Medical Informatics and Genetics,...Even very low levels of environmental toxins can damage health
...n low level exposure to passive smoking can reduce fetal growth. "The public depends on decision makers, scientists, and regulators to restrict exposure to widespread toxins that have known or suspected serious potential health effects," say Wigle and Lanphear....Call for research funding to prevent pregnancy complications
...ted out the important role of risk assessment with fetal fibronectin and cervical length as strong predictors of preterm birth. He also outlined what legislators can do to improve overall pregnancy outcomes and long-term women's health. "We know now that complicated pregnancies have long-term consequences ......on in the time necessary to take MRI images of the fetal brain. "One of the challenges of imaging the fetal head is that the fetus can move during the study, so it is often difficult to obtain the three diffe...Real-time MRI helps doctors assess beating heart in fetus
... can provide real-time measurements of volume in a fetal heart, and may better enable physicians to plan ca... represent an advance over the current technology, fetal echocardiography. "With echocardiography, the heart looks like a shadow. It looks more like a heart ...Adult sickle cell drug proves effective in young children
...ffects of the disease by increasing and sustaining fetal hemoglobin production, was achieved in all study participants. Patients treated with hydroxyurea also weighed more and were taller than untreated children with the disorder their growth rates were even comparable to those of normal children. Anothe......ue to abnormal underdevelopment of sections of the fetal heart during the first eight weeks of pregnancy. Hypoplastic left heart syndrome can be fatal without treatment. Dr. Kreutzer will discuss cardiac cauterization interventional procedures for patients with single ventricle. While the normal heart has ...Prenatal exposure to famine increases risk of schizophrenia
...t with previous research suggesting a link between fetal nutritional deficiency and schizophrenia, accordin... none of which are yet firmly established, include fetal nutritional deficiency. A previous study found that there was twice the risk of schizophrenia among ...Adult lifestyle biggest risk factor for diabetes, study finds
...d development in the womb, and that poor growth in fetal and infant life is associated with impaired insulin secretion and sensitivity. However, not all of these studies have not had access to complete data on later life. "Our study, which has examined people from birth to adulthood, suggests that the li...How risky are twin pregnancies?
... pregnancies and found a surprisingly high rate of fetal death: ten unexpected intrauterine deaths occurred... The authors conclude that "despite intensive fetal surveillance, structurally normal monochorionic diamniotic twin pregnancies are complicated by a hi...Ill-health and unhappiness among the risks for older mothers
...42 years, more than half all pregnancies result in fetal loss. Complications for the mother include hypertension, which occurs in 35% of women aged 50 or over having egg donation, and there is also an increased risk of maternal mortality. "In the UK between 2000 and 2002, about 1 100 children lost thei......g a novel bioreactor she developed that mimics the fetal environment. When implanted back into the animals, the bioengineered vessels functioned like natural arteries. Unlike the cells in these experiments, however, human artery cells do not possess enough life cycles to be grown into functional arteries. ...