Archive for the ‘Pregnancy’ Category
Saturday, October 27th, 2007
New research published in the October issue of the Journal of the American College of Surgeons suggests that pregnant women suspected of having appendicitis are often misdiagnosed and undergo unnecessary appendectomies (removal of the appendix) that can result in early delivery or loss of the fetus. The study points to ...
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Thursday, October 25th, 2007
The world's maternal mortality ratio (the number of maternal deaths per 100 000 live births) is declining too slowly to meet Millennium Development Goal (MDG) 5, which aims to reduce the number of women who die in pregnancy and childbirth by three-quarters by 2015.
While an annual decline of 5.5% in ...
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Monday, October 1st, 2007
A new Kaiser Permanente study, the first integrated survey of maternal depression, shows that more than one in seven women are depressed at some time during the nine months before becoming pregnant, during pregnancy, or in the nine months after childbirth. The study, which appears in the October 2007 issue ...
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Sunday, September 30th, 2007
A large observational study that tracked women from nine months prior to pregnancy through nine months after delivery has revealed that the number of women diagnosed with depression actually decreases slightly during pregnancy, then rises after delivery. The study also confirmed that many women who experience depression ...
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Friday, September 28th, 2007
In a move the UK government says aims to offer women more choice, local maternity units are being converted to services run by midwives. How safe they are is discussed in the British Medical Journal (BMJ), this week's issue. Two experts debate the topic - one in ...
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Friday, September 28th, 2007
A new Kaiser Permanente study, the first integrated survey of maternal depression, shows that more than one in seven women are depressed at some time during the nine months before becoming pregnant, during pregnancy, or in the nine months after childbirth. The study, which appears ...
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Sunday, September 23rd, 2007
New research in primates suggests that infants and children who carry a certain gene variant may be more vulnerable to the ill effects of fetal alcohol exposure.
Reported online in Biological Psychiatry, the findings represent the first evidence of a genetic risk for fetal alcohol spectrum disorder - a condition that ...
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Sunday, September 23rd, 2007
New data, generated in mice by Richard Proia and colleagues at the National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, provides a potential reason for early pregnancy loss in humans.
Female mice lacking a protein known as sphingosine kinase 1 (Sphk1) and expressing reduced levels of Sphk2 (Sphk1-/-Sphk2+/- mice) were found to be infertile. ...
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Thursday, September 20th, 2007
Scientists in California are reporting an advance toward rapid testing for pre-natal detection of Down syndrome and other birth defects that involve an abnormal number of chromosomes.
In a study scheduled for the Oct. 1, 2007 issue of ACS' journal, Analytical Chemistry, Stanford University bioengineering professor and Howard Hughes Medical Institute ...
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