Breaking news on pregnancy
Satellite Program Overviews Health Initiatives That Address Pregnant Women And Healthy Babies published
Thu, 09 Sep 2010 06:00:00 PDT
The Alabama Department of Public Health is offering a Satellite Conference and Webcast program that will provide an overview of infant mortality issues that have faced Alabama for many years. The program, titled "Infant Mortality: Issues and Initiatives in Alabama," is scheduled for Wednesday, Sept.15, from 2 to 4 p.m. (Central)...
Drug-Resistant Malaria Suggests A Health Policy Change For Pregnant Women And Infants published
Thu, 09 Sep 2010 03:00:00 PDT
Malaria remains a serious global health problem, killing more than one million people per year. Treatment of the mosquito-borne illness relies on antibiotics, and the emergence of drug-resistant malaria is of growing concern...
American Academy Of Pediatrics Issues Recommendations To Curb Children's Exposure To Sex In The Media published
Thu, 09 Sep 2010 03:00:00 PDT
Pediatricians, parents and media companies need to be more cognizant of the sexual material that children and teens are exposed to through television, music, the Internet and other media, according to a new policy statement from the American Academy of Pediatrics, HealthDay/USA Today reports. These media may be contributing to the fact that the U.S...
Research Ties High Weight Gain During Pregnancy To Overweight Children published
Thu, 09 Sep 2010 03:00:00 PDT
Infants born to women who gain too much weight during pregnancy are more likely to become overweight children and adults, according to a growing body of evidence challenging earlier arguments that weight is mainly influenced by genetics, New York Times columnist Jane Brody writes...
Risk Of Gestational Diabetes, Cesarean Section, Reduced In The Obese By Bariatric Operations published
Thu, 09 Sep 2010 00:00:00 PDT
Obese women who have bariatric surgical procedures before pregnancy were three times less likely to develop gestational diabetes (GDM) than women who have bariatric operations after delivery, according to new research findings published in the August issue of the Journal of the American College of Surgeons...
The Risk Of Childhood Cancer Following Fetal Exposure To Radiation published
Wed, 08 Sep 2010 05:00:00 PDT
Fetal exposure to radiation and the risk of childhood cancer: what is the likelihood of a risk? A new study published in this week's PLoS Medicine aims to evaluate the possibility that exposure of a fetus to computed tomography or radionuclide imaging performed during pregnancy might increase subsequent risk of childhood cancer...
'Impatience' With Labor, Low VBAC Rates Tied To C-Section Increase, Study Finds published
Wed, 08 Sep 2010 04:00:00 PDT
The rising U...
Health Law Rollout Effects: Delivering 'Accountable' Care, Device Tax, Nursing Mothers published
Wed, 08 Sep 2010 04:00:00 PDT
Today's updates on the continuing implementation of the health law include Medicare chief Don Berwick's behind the scenes push for 'accountable care organizations,' tax anxiety in the medical device industry, and the promise of new help for pregnant women...
Ahead Of U.N. MDG Summit, Media Outlets Examine Various Aspects Of Goals published
Wed, 08 Sep 2010 04:00:00 PDT
Ahead of the U.N. Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) Summit on September 20-22, the media examines different aspects of the MDGs. The Daily Nation reports on a United Nations Development Program report which showed poverty eradication remained one of Kenya's greatest challenges to meeting the MDGs. "'Poverty is still at 2006 levels...
AHRQ Releases New Spanish Language Guides For Patients published
Wed, 08 Sep 2010 03:00:00 PDT
HHS' Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality today released a series of free evidence-based guides designed to help Spanish speakers understand and compare the risks, benefits and side effects of treatments for eight health conditions. The guides provide valuable information that patients can use in talking with their clinicians...
Alternative Birthing Rooms Safe For Mom, Baby published
Wed, 08 Sep 2010 03:00:00 PDT
Giving birth in an alternative setting within a hospital - like a bed-free birthing room or one designed to be "homelike" is just as safe for healthy women as laboring in a traditional hospital bed and women who use these rooms are nearly twice as likely to be satisfied with their birth experiences, according to an updated Cochrane review...
Babies Born Past Term Associated With Increased Risk Of Cerebral Palsy published
Wed, 08 Sep 2010 02:00:00 PDT
While preterm birth is a known risk factor for cerebral palsy, an examination of data for infants born at term or later finds that compared with delivery at 40 weeks, birth at 37 or 38 weeks or at 42 weeks or later was associated with an increased risk of cerebral palsy, according to a study in the September 1 issue of JAMA...
Smoking Damages Men's Sperm And Also The Numbers Of Germ And Somatic Cells In Developing Embryos published
Wed, 08 Sep 2010 02:00:00 PDT
Two new studies have shed more light on how smoking may damage fertility, and give further weight to advice that mothers and fathers-to-be should stop smoking before attempting to conceive. The research is published online in the reproductive medicine journal Human Reproduction (Wednesday 8 September)...
Morning Sickness, Still No Relief published
Wed, 08 Sep 2010 02:00:00 PDT
There are currently no reliably safe and effective treatments for morning sickness, according to Cochrane researchers who conducted a systematic review of the available evidence. There was very limited evidence for all pharmaceutical and alternative medicines tested. Morning sickness is the term used to describe vomiting and feelings of nausea in pregnant women...
Low Pre-Natal Vitamin D Doubles Schizophrenia Risk published
Tue, 07 Sep 2010 00:00:00 PDT
Newborn babies with low levels of vitamin D have an increased risk of developing schizophrenia later in life, researchers at the Queensland Brain Institute have found. The research team used tiny samples of blood taken as part of routine screening from newborn babies in Denmark...
Psychological Violence During Pregnancy Linked To Postnatal Depression Risk published
Mon, 06 Sep 2010 12:00:00 PDT
Psychological violence by an intimate partner during pregnancy, independent of physical violence, has been linked to a higher risk of developing postnatal depression, also known as postpartum depression, according to an article published in the medical journal The Lancet...
VOA News Examines U.S. Global Health Initiative published
Mon, 06 Sep 2010 01:00:00 PDT
VOA News examines President Barack Obama's $63 billion Global Health Initiative (GHI), noting the initiative's emphasis on cost-effective strategies to improve child- and maternal-health as well as programs to fight HIV/AIDS, tuberculosis (TB) and malaria...
Pediatric Weight Expert Provides Obesity Trinity Answers published
Mon, 06 Sep 2010 00:00:00 PDT
In a first person paper published in the August 27, 2010 issue of Childhood Obesity, Dr. Melinda Sothern, Director of Health Promotion and Professor of Public Health at LSU Health Sciences Center New Orleans, provides three ways to de-program the 1950s obesity trinity underlying the current obesity epidemic in the United States and protect future generations from its health consequences...
5 Postpartum Tips From Dr. Machelle Seibel, Founder Of HealthRock And Professor Of Obstetrics And Gynecology published
Sun, 05 Sep 2010 00:00:00 PDT
After your baby's birth (postpartum), the body begins the restoration process and starts to regain strength and return back to its pre-pregnancy shape. Many women experience a range of issues postpartum; just think of what your body has been through in the last nine months...
Peeling Back DNA Packaging To Gain Insight Into Cells published
Sat, 04 Sep 2010 01:00:00 PDT
Scientists have built a clearer picture of how lengthy strands of DNA are concertinaed when our cells grow and divide, in a discovery could help explain how cell renewal can go wrong. Scientists have identified thousands of proteins that play a key role in compacting DNA - a crucial process by which DNA is shortened up to 10,000 times to fit inside cells as they split into two...
U.N.-NGO Meeting Concludes With Participants Calling On World Leaders To Do More For MDGs published
Fri, 03 Sep 2010 06:00:00 PDT
A group of more than 350 non-governmental organizations (NGOs) concluded a U.N. forum in Melbourne, Australia, on Wednesday with a call for world leaders to step up their commitments to achieving the U.N. Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), the Australian Associated Press/Sydney Morning Herald reports (Rose, 9/1). "In a wide-ranging declaration adopted at the end of the three-day meeting ...
'The Determinants Of A Successful Pregnancy' - ESHRE's First Workshop In Croatia published
Fri, 03 Sep 2010 02:00:00 PDT
The workshop provides a forum for clinicians and scientists to share research results and discuss new developments: ESHRE Campus symposium, Dubrovnik, Croatia, 24-25 September 2010...
Study Links Fluoride To Pre-term Birth And Anemia In Pregnancy published
Fri, 03 Sep 2010 02:00:00 PDT
Fluoride avoidance reduced anemia in pregnant women, decreased pre-term births and enhanced babies' birth-weight, concludes leading fluoride expert, AK Susheela and colleagues, in a study published in Current Science (May 2010)...
Calif. Allows Safety-Net Coverage Cost Increases; Georgia Illegal Immigrant Dialysis Agreement Reached published
Thu, 02 Sep 2010 05:00:00 PDT
The Los Angeles Times: "As state leaders blast giant health insurers for raising rates, Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger's administration has quietly allowed hefty increases for thousands of sick or jobless Californians who must rely on expensive safety-net coverage -- if they want insurance at all...
Quidel Announces FDA Clearance Of Its RapidVue(R) HCG Pregnancy Lateral Flow Diagnostic Test published
Thu, 02 Sep 2010 00:00:00 PDT
Quidel Corporation (NASDAQ: QDEL), a leading provider of rapid diagnostic testing solutions, announced that it has received 510(k) clearance from the United States Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for the sale of Quidel's RapidVueŽ hCG test, a lateral flow pregnancy immunoassay for the qualitative detection of human Chorionic Gonadotropin (hCG)...
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