Topic: Nordic Countries
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Women who took medication to treat herpes infections during pregnancy weren't more likely to have a baby with birth defects than women who didn't take these drugs in a study of over 800,000 babies born in Denmark. ...
Poor hygiene led to the deaths of six newborn babies at a Johannesburg hospital in May, a health department investigation found Wednesday. "Our investigation showed that the cause of death for all six babies was related to an intestinal virus which is ...
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Good health and a long life may have more to do with how you grew up than how much education you have under your belt, research from Denmark hints. Studies, including the Danish one, have generally found ...
Nearly half of serious cases of attention deficit hyperactivity disorder in children are closely tied to social factors such as single parenting and poor maternal education, reports a new study. Genes can play an key role in the development of so-called ADHD, ...
The United States has scored poorly on a campaign group's list of the best countries in which to be a mother, managing only 28th place, and bettered by many smaller and poorer countries. Norway topped the latest Save the Children "Mothers Index", ...
The United States has scored poorly on a campaign group's list of the best countries in which to be a mother, managing only 28th place, and bettered by many smaller and poorer countries. Norway topped the latest Save the Children "Mothers Index", ...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Deaths of women in and around childbirth have gone down by an average of 35 percent globally, according to a study using new methods, but are surprisingly high in the United States, Canada and Norway. The researchers said on ...
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - There are about twice as many sets of triplets born in Norway every year compared to 40 years ago -- not including babies conceived with assisted reproductive technology (ART), new research shows. Once ART babies were added ...
In what doctors described Wednesday as a world first, a Danish woman has given birth to two children after her fertility was restored using ovarian tissue that was removed, frozen, thawed and then reimplanted after cancer treatment. It is being hailed as ...
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Pregnant women who take probiotic supplements starting in the first trimester are less likely to develop central obesity after they've given birth, according to a new study. Central obesity was defined as a body mass index of ...