Archive for the ‘Pregnancy’ Category
Monday, March 3rd, 2008
UK parliament's Commons International Development Committee (CIDC) said in a new report released yesterday, to coincide with Mothering Sunday, that there is a lack of political will to reduce maternal deaths in the developing world, where there has been little change in the last 20 years to tackle the problem.
There ...
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Monday, February 25th, 2008
Premature birth can have serious effects on the development and growth of children. In many parts of the world, preterm deliveries are increasing in frequency. In a study published in the February 2008 issue of the American Journal of Obstetrics & Gynecology, researchers from the University of Porto Medical School ...
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Thursday, February 21st, 2008
A study by the University of Iowa published in the journal Social Psychiatry and Psychiatric Epidemiology reports that low-income women in Iowa are much more likely to suffer from postpartum depression than wealthier women.
University of Iowa psychologist Lisa Segre and colleagues studied 4,332 new mothers from four Iowa counties. The ...
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Thursday, February 21st, 2008
New research published in BJOG: An International Journal of Obstetrics and Gynaecology has reported obesity, and having previously given birth, as the two largest risk factors for blood clots in the lungs during pregnancy (antenatal pulmonary embolism).
Blood clotting in the lungs is the most important cause of death directly related ...
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Thursday, February 21st, 2008
Researchers from the University of Leeds' Leeds Institute of Molecular Medicine recently said they are closer to developing a test that can predict preeclampsia, BBC News reports. The researchers in a study recently published in the journal Hypertension in Pregnancy said they have identified different chemical levels in blood plasma ...
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Monday, February 18th, 2008
bout one-third of births in the U.S. were by caesarean section in 2005, according to a recently released report by HHS' Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, United Press International reports (United Press International, 2/15).
The report found that 1.3 million births in the U.S. were by c-section in 2005, up ...
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Thursday, February 7th, 2008
A recent article in the Archives of General Psychiatry reports that women who undergo an extremely stressful event during the first three months of pregnancy have an increased risk of having children who develop schizophrenia.
Researcher Ali S. Khashan of the University of Machester, England and colleagues note that there is ...
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Thursday, November 1st, 2007
A new paper to be published in The Obstetrician & Gynaecologist ( TOG ) discusses the treatment of women with cornual (interstitial) pregnancies.
A cornual pregnancy is a rare type of ectopic pregnancy which occurs when the fertilised egg implants in that part of the fallopian tube buried deep in the ...
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Sunday, October 28th, 2007
The National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence (NICE) of the UK draft guidance is at odds with official guidance and has added confusion to the whole issue. In this week's British Medical Journal (BMJ) two experts debate the topic.
The Individual Woman Should Decide
Pat O'Brien, Consultant Obstetrician, Institute for ...
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