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Sacking of pregnant women raises concern

An increasing number of women are complaining to the Human Rights Commission about being sacked because they're pregnant. The commission says it's received 84 complaints in the past two years from women who have been sacked or tre [...]

Posted On : Feb, 21 2012 | Comments : 0

Pregnant Women Over 50 'Do Pretty Well' Study Finds

The average age of women becoming mothers has risen in the United States, and in the last 20 years, a few women have even entered motherhood in their 60s. By implanting embryos produced by in-vitro fertilization using egg cells donated by [...]

Posted On : Feb, 03 2012 | Comments : 0

Pregnant women told to get whooping cough booster

The government’s Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices released its updated 2012 immunization schedule for older kids and adults today based on changes that were approved at its annual meeting last October. The schedule was p [...]

Posted On : Feb, 01 2012 | Comments : 0

Caring for women before pregnancy is critical for healthy ba...

When she was the state's maternal child health epidemiologist about a decade ago, Pamela Xaverius recalls being disturbed by the poor birth outcomes in parts of the state and feeling helpless because she could do nothing to improve th [...]

Posted On : Jan, 16 2012 | Comments : 0

Pregnant Women With Lymphoma Can Have Good Outcomes

SAN DIEGO – Women diagnosed with lymphoma during pregnancy stand a good chance of carrying a healthy child to term even when they opt for treatment during the second or third trimester, according to a retrospective multicenter analy [...]

Posted On : Jan, 13 2012 | Comments : 0

Obese women 'should lose weight' before having a baby

As obesity rates are rising, more women are falling pregnant while already overweight and obese, putting themselves and their baby's health at risk. Advice from the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists (RCOG), in a patien [...]

Posted On : Dec, 23 2011 | Comments : 0

Pregnant Women Don’t Need To Carry America’s Obesity Epidemi...

There’s a growing body of research on how obesity can be ‘programmed’ in the womb—and a growing campaign to thwart America’s obesity ‘epidemic’ by targeting pregnant women. We’re all for pub [...]

Posted On : Dec, 20 2011 | Comments : 0

All pregnant women should take vitamin D, coroner says

North London coroner Andrew Walker said action should be taken to reduce the risk to others after he held an inquest last week into the death of a three-month-old boy. In his letter to Andrew Lansley, Mr Walker said Milind Agarwal was tak [...]

Posted On : Dec, 13 2011 | Comments : 0

Arsenic in Rice May Pose Risk for Pregnant Women

Pregnant women who eat rice regularly may expose themselves and their fetuses to too much arsenic, possibly putting them at risk of premature births, researchers from Dartmouth College said. A test found that pregnant women who ate ric [...]

Posted On : Dec, 06 2011 | Comments : 0

Vitamins can help women get pregnant, study suggests

VITAMIN pills can help women conceive, according to a fertility study. Almost twice as many patients who took the tablets during fertility treatment had babies compared to those not on supplements. It worked out at a 60% success rate, ins [...]

Posted On : Dec, 02 2011 | Comments : 0

Pregnancy weight gain for obese women: What is safe?

There's no consensus on how much weight an overweight or obese woman should gain during pregnancy--in 2009 the Institute of Medicine changed its guidelines, lowering it to 11 to 20 pounds for obese moms-to-be, but not everyone agrees. [...]

Posted On : Nov, 30 2011 | Comments : 0

Hepatitis B on rise among pregnant women

The incidence of hepatitis B virus (HBV) among pregnant women in Viet Nam has been increasing in recent years and timely detection is necessary to prevent it from being transmitted from mothers to newborns, says a health expert. Dr Ngo [...]

Posted On : Nov, 28 2011 | Comments : 0

Women drinking, smoking in pregnancy

Australian women continue to smoke cigarettes and drink alcohol during pregnancy, a new study reveals. Research by the Australian Institute of Family Studies has found 18 per cent of women smoked and 38 per cent of women drank alcohol whi [...]

Posted On : Nov, 15 2011 | Comments : 0

Research Finds Screening Pregnant Women for Autoimmune Thyro...

Thyroid autoimmunity also puts the mother at increased risk of developing postpartum thyroiditis and hypothyroidism in the future. While screening of high-risk women for thyroid dysfunction is recommended, universal screening of pregnant [...]