What Doctors Don't Tell You* Avoid Doppler, particularly the duplex variety for detecting the baby’s heartbeat and pulse; the ‘Doptone’ fetal-pulse detector is a commonly used handheld device. The B-mode has a higher safety margin
Several cases of children born from assisted conception developing tumours have come to light. ... ...
The biggest risk you may face of having a deformed or retarded child could be when taking the prenatal diagnostic tests themselves. ... ...
Living near a landfill could raise the risk of fetal abnormalities, according to a new study.
Children born after assisted reproduction, where the technique known as intracytoplasmic sperm injection is used, are twice as likely to have a major birth defect, and 50 per cent more likely to h ...
Chemotherapy for cancer in childhood can affect the fertility of men and women or even cause birth defects. ...
Although the issue of declining male sperm count has been hotly debated in the medical press, mounting evidence points to pesticides. A workshop helped in Copenhagen in early 1995, at the request ...
MERCURY: Californian dentists must display the health risks
One of the US's biggest manufacturers of dental amalgam a mercury based product used for silver fillings is to issue health warnings on its product. ...
