What Doctors Don't Tell YouClomid (clomiphene) is a powerful and longstanding infertility drug but of late, research has been suggesting that it can cause birth defects. ...
Women who smoke while pregnant run a greater risk of giving birth to a baby with limb defects. The risk seems greater among women who smoke more than 10 cigarettes a day. ...
Expectant mothers are already encouraged to take folic acid from one month before birth to help prevent neural tube defects. But new research also shows that folic acid could have the added benefi ...
Taking folic acid (one of the B vitamins) can protect you from producing a baby with spina bifida. ...
Premarin is one of the range of hormone replacement therapy (HRT) drugs. As such, it is given three pages of closely-typed text in the American drugs bible, the Physicians' Desk Reference 1995, wh ...
Doctors helping to deliver a handicapped baby might now be breaking the law. ...
Children conceived by ICSI (intracytoplasmic sperm injection), the IVF treatment of choice when the man is very infertile, may suffer some development problems at around one year. ...
Most of us who have delayed childbearing live with the spectre of Down's Syndrome and many congenital deformities automatically increasing with our advancing age, particularly for first birth. In ...
Additional side-effects of angiotensin-receptor blockers (ARBs) include:
Chorion villus sampling, that wonder prenatal diagnostic test that supposedly avoided the problems of amniocentesis, could be causing severe limb deformities, particularly when carried out very ea ...
