Topic: Pregnancy And Childbirth
MILWAUKEE (Reuters) - Wisconsin police charged a 33-year-old Milwaukee woman with murder on Monday over accusations she cut a full-term fetus from its mother's womb in an attempt to steal the baby and claim it as her own.Annette Morales-Rodriguez faces two counts ...
Women whose mothers took a synthetic estrogen called DES before it was discontinued in 1971 have been found to suffer from a variety of fertility problems and cancers, according to a major new study.The study appearing in Thursday's New England Journal of ...
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - "The Office" actress Jenna Fischer gave birth to a baby boy on September 24, her spokeswoman said on Monday.Fischer, 37, who is married to screenwriter Lee Kirk, welcomed son Weston Lee, the first child for the couple, People ...
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Despite concerns that a mother's infections during pregnancy may raise her baby's risk of cerebral palsy, common colds and stomach flu were not tied to the birth defect in a new study.Other more serious infections, and factors ...
STOCKHOLM (Reuters) - Treating pregnant cancer patients with powerful chemotherapy drugs appears not to harm their unborn children, but pre-term delivery to avoid subjecting them to chemotherapy does, according to a study by cancer experts on Tuesday.Scientists who studied the health and ...
STOCKHOLM (Reuters) - Treating pregnant cancer patients with powerful chemotherapy drugs appears not to harm their unborn children, but pre-term delivery to avoid subjecting them to chemotherapy does, according to a study by cancer experts on Tuesday.Scientists who studied the health and ...
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - So much for chastity in the world of the "Twilight" vampires.The movie trailer for "The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn -- Part 1" has been released, and it shows that the franchise's heroine Bella Swan and her vampire lover ...
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Women who use common painkillers like ibuprofen and naproxen early in pregnancy may have an increased risk of miscarriage, a study published Tuesday suggests.Researchers found that of nearly 52,000 Quebec women who had been pregnant, those who'd ...
Sierra Leone's free health care plan for pregnant women and young children is dysfunctional and hobbled by corruption and a lack of accountability, Amnesty International said Tuesday."The health care system remains dysfunctional in many respects," Erwin van der Borght, Amnesty International's Africa ...
A sterilising agent for home humidifiers probably caused the mysterious deaths of four pregnant women, an official with a South Korean health agency said Thursday.The Korea Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (KCDC) began investigating after 28 cases of lung disease with ...