Williams Manual of Obstetrics: Pregnancy Complications, Twenty-Second Edition
CBC.ca (Free subscription) | 11/19/2009
Women with multiple sclerosis who are pregnant are at slightly higher risk for some pregnancy complications but are no more likely to have other problems compared with women in the general population, a new U.S. study suggests.
Reuters UK (Free subscription) | 11/18/2009
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Good news for women with multiple sclerosis (MS) who are pregnant or thinking about becoming pregnant. A study published Wednesday shows that while women with MS have a somewhat heightened risk of certain pregnancy complications, by and large, their pregnancies are as healthy as other women's.
PREGNANCYWEEKLY'S BLOG (Free subscription) | 11/14/2009
Nicotine patches and gum seem to be safe and effective in pregnant women, according to a new study. Such patches and gum have been shown to help non-pregnant adults stop smoking, study co-author Dr. Geeta K. Swamy told Reuters Health. However, women and their obstetricians have been uncertain about their safety and effectiveness during pregnancy. Dr. Swamy, from Duke University Medical Center in Durham,...
Business Wire (Free subscription) | 11/05/2009
TEL AVIV, Israel--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Compugen Ltd. (NASDAQ:CGEN) announced today that it has signed a research and license agreement with a leading diagnostic company covering CGEN-226, a novel biomarker candidate for early detection of preeclampsia. Preeclampsia is the most common of the dangerous pregnancy complications, occurring in 5-8% of all pregnancies, with potentially very serious effects for...
Fitness Watch (Free subscription) | 11/02/2009
Well why not? They gained too many non-pregnancy pounds first. "Most obese women gain more weight than is recommended during pregnancy, and may find those pounds tough to shed in the long run, a new study suggests. In a study of 1,656 obese women who gave birth over five years, researchers found that about three-quarters gained more than 15 pounds during pregnancy -- which at the time was the...
Reuters UK (Free subscription) | 10/30/2009
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Could high blood pressure-related complications during pregnancy be tied to thinking skills in children years later?
Diabetes Update (Free subscription) | 10/26/2009
I frequently receive emails asking me about Gestational Diabetes (GD), which is the term used for diabetes that is diagnosed only after a woman, previously considered normal, displays abnormal glucose tolerance test results during pregnancy. Because obstetricians do a very good job of diagnosing and treating GD, I have not discussed it on my web site. If you are pregnant and have GD your doctors are...
Poverty News Blog (Free subscription) | 10/26/2009
It's not often that you hear someone asking for less funding, but health experts say that the great amount of funding for AIDS have left other diseases in Africa ignored. Hundreds of thousands of people die of malaria or from pregnancy complications on the continent, yet those illnesses receive only a fraction of the funding that AIDS does. In fact, AIDS health aid has more money than many government...
PREGNANCYWEEKLY'S BLOG (Free subscription) | 10/20/2009
Researchers have long seen signs of autism in children born prematurely, and some studies have suggested that such signs can develop into full-blown autism in childhood. A study out Monday suggests that complications during pregnancy and early life may be responsible for this early risk. It's unclear just how many children born prematurely will develop autism. The study, in the November issue of Pediatrics,...
MediaBistro.com (Free subscription) | 10/19/2009
Pic by Broadcasting & Cable . We're three games into the NLCS and "Goatee Gamble," and with two Phillies' wins, we're also that much closer to seeing a clean-cut Chuck Todd again... For those of you just tuning in, the conditions of the dueling White House correspondents' bet are: if the Dodgers win the National League Championship Series, ABC's Jake Tapper grows a goatee and if the...
Poverty News Blog (Free subscription) | 10/15/2009
"Stand Up, Take Action" is an event that focuses on the Millennium Development Goals, 7 goals that governments across the world promised to achieve by 2015. There have been mixed results, and that is a big reason for the event, to show political leaders that the the people want them to take the goals seriously. Many observers have said that the biggest thing standing in the way of meeting...
Medical News Today (Free subscription) | 10/15/2009
In the New York Times' "Personal Health" column on Tuesday, Jane Brody examined treatment options for women with uterine fibroids -- benign tumors of the reproductive tract that can cause prolonged menstrual periods, chronic pelvic pain or pressure, pressure on the bladder, infertility, miscarriage or other pregnancy complications.
Baby Parenting UK Blog (Free subscription) | 10/14/2009
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Health News (Free subscription) | 10/09/2009
A new electronic tool that will put family medical history at doctors' fingertips – alerting them to a patient's increased risk for birth defects or pregnancy complications - will be developed through a three-year cooperative agreement with a $1.2 million grant from the Health Resources and Services Administration, Genetic Services ...
Chic (Free subscription) | 10/07/2009
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