What Doctors Don't Tell YouTerbutaline infusion normally reserved for treating asthma and bronchitis is being used on women in the US to help their pregnancies go to term. It has extended some high risk pregnancies by 30 d ...
Perhaps Mother Nature got it right after all. It seems pregnant women are supposed to become anemic in order to give birth to large, healthy babies. ...
The epilepsy drug phenytoin can cause brain damage in babies if taken during pregnancy, according to a Canadian study. ...
Ever since palaeolithic artists carved those voluptuous Venus figures, fertility symbols have been fat. In these earliest representations of women, the female sexual features the breasts and mons ...
New evidence suggests that severe emotional stress during early pregnancy can cause congenital malformations. ...
The mainstay of modern obstetric diagnosis is the ultrasound scan (or sonography). Similar to radar, real-time scanners employ very-high-frequency pulsed sound waves (3.5-7 mHz, or 3.5-7 million cycles per second)
Pregnant women are less likely to suffer pre eclampsia very high blood pressure if the father of the child is also a regular lover. ...
Medicine is finally waking up to the benefits of pre conceptual care. ...
The number of women giving birth over the age of 35 is steadily increasing. According to one estimate, by the year 2000, 40 per cent of births in the UK will be to women of 30 or over ( J Langford ...
Women who take Prozac (fluoxetine) while pregnant are more than twice as likely to give birth to a baby with minor defects. ...
