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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. ...
NEW YORK (Reuters Life!) - Girls in the United States are hitting puberty at an earlier age with overweight youngsters tending to develop earlier, according to a U.S. study. Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center researchers compared 1,200 girls aged 7 and 8 ...
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Traffic injuries among children ages 4 to 6 declined in New York State in the wake of a law requiring them to be strapped into car booster seats, researchers reported Monday. Most U.S. states now require that ...
SANAWAN, Pakistan (Reuters Life!) - A Pakistani woman stranded by the country's worst floods in 80 years gave birth to twin boys Monday, bringing joy to soldiers and villagers struggling amidst death and destruction. The floods have killed 1,600 people and affected ...
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Girls in the U.S. may be continuing to hit puberty at earlier ages, according to new research. The findings suggest earlier development than what was reported in a 1997 study and show a worrying pattern, say the ...
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - You don't need to delay a second pregnancy if you've had a miscarriage, Scottish researchers said Friday. In fact, women who got pregnant within six months of their miscarriage were more likely to go on to have ...
KUALA LUMPUR (Reuters) - A Malaysian state is to allow Muslim girls under the age of consent of 16 years to wed in a bid to stem unwed pregnancies, angering the country's women's activists and politicians. The Islamic council in the southern ...
NEW YORK (Reuters Life!) - Although acupuncture is promoted as a way to induce labor in women who go past their due date, a Danish study had added to evidence casting doubt on its usefulness. Researchers from Aarhus University Hospital found that ...
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Many men suffer emotionally when their partner loses a pregnancy, new research shows. But they recover more quickly from their distress than women do, the study shows. Not too long ago, experts thought that a man didn't ...
NEW YORK (Reuters Life!) - Pregnant women need no longer give up their morning cup of coffee. A research review by The American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists had found that moderate caffeine consumption probably won't increase the risk of a miscarriage ...