Topic: Pregnancy And Childbirth
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Babies born to snuff-using mothers were more likely to have breathing problems than those whose mothers smoked while pregnant, according to a Swedish study.Snuff -- ground tobacco that is high in nicotine but doesn't generate the same additional ...
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - The arraignment for a California mom accused of pushing her 7-month-old baby to his death from a parking structure was postponed on Thursday after a doctor found her mentally unfit to go to court.A doctor who examined Sonia ...
CHICAGO (Reuters) - Unintended pregnancies, which make up nearly half of all pregnancies in the United States, are increasingly concentrated among low-income women, a study showed on Wednesday.Unplanned pregnancies have skyrocketed among poor women in recent years even as such pregnancies among ...
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - "30 Rock" creator and star Tina Fey gave birth to a girl on Wednesday, People magazine has reported.Penelope Athena Richmond is the second child for Fey, 41, and her composer husband, Jeffrey Richmond, 50.The Emmy-winning writer/performer and author ...
Women are dying needlessly in childbirth from treatable medical conditions because of "substandard care" in hospitals, a group of doctors said Wednesday.The article in the British Medical Journal (BMJ) by six obstetricians pointed to a "worrying trend" in the causes of maternal ...
Tests that measure DNA in a pregnant woman's blood work well for telling the sex of a baby after seven weeks' gestation without posing danger to the fetus, a US study said Tuesday.The meta-analysis of previous studies on the topic suggests that ...
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Blood drawn from expectant mothers could offer parents an earlier sneak peek at their baby's sex than methods currently used in the U.S., researchers said Tuesday.The test may be particularly valuable for families that harbor sex-linked genetic ...
NAIROBI (TrustLaw) - "Nobody wants a woman who passes stools all the time and smells," whispered Farhiya Mohamed Farah, explaining why her husband divorced her when she was pregnant with their second child.Farah, developed a hole between her vagina and rectum, causing ...
NEW YORK (TrustLaw) - Child marriage, which steals the innocence of millions of girls worldwide and often condemns them to lives of poverty, ignorance and poor health, is one of the biggest obstacles to development, rights groups say.A girl under the age ...
CHICAGO (Reuters) - Critics say a controversial new study that linked high exposure to electromagnetic fields during pregnancy to asthma in children is flawed and ignores many prior studies that suggest such exposures are harmless.The study by researchers at Kaiser Permanente in ...
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