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 ...
Early amniocentesis the prenatal test for Down's syndrome is so dangerous that Dutch researchers may abandon their trials into the procedure because it is not "ethically justified" to continue. ...
Pregnant women who use margarines and other processed foods that contain trans fatty acids derived from partially hydrogenated vegetable oils may be seriously damaging the development of their children.
Most cough suppressants sold at the pharmacy contain dextromethorphan and now this seemingly benign ingredient has been found to be a possible cause of birth defects. ...
For the few people in any doubt, the risks of smoking carry on into later life and quitting smoking will help you to live longer no matter when you give up. ...