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Postpartum anxiety delays puberty in offspring

Medicine & Health / Research

created Jun 10, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Hormonal changes early in pregnancy cause maternal postpartum anxiety and behavior changes that can lead to a delayed onset of puberty in both birth and adoptive daughters, according to a new study conducted in mice.





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Study: Cancer may pass from mother to unborn child

Medicine & Health / Cancer

created Oct 14, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- A new study has provided genetic evidence for the first time that it is possible for a mother to transmit cancer to her unborn child via the placenta.


Delayed cord clamping

Medicine & Health / Other

created Apr 16, 2008 | popularity 3.5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Should you clamp the umbilical cord within a minute of birth or wait two or three minutes?


Afghan woman gives birth to headless conjoined twin: doctor

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created Sep 14, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

An Afghan woman has given birth to a baby boy attached at the chest to a headless conjoined twin, a doctor at a hospital in northern Afghanistan said Monday.


Tunisian woman expecting 12 babies: reports

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created Aug 18, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 2

A Tunisian woman is due to give birth to 12 babies, which could be a world record, press reports said Tuesday, quoting doctors.


Extreme nausea and vomiting varies among pregnant women from different countries

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created Apr 25, 2008 | popularity not rated yet | comments 1

Mothers born in India and Sri Lanka are three times more likely to suffer from extreme nausea and vomiting in pregnancy (hyperemesis gravidarum) than ethnic Norwegians. This finding comes from the Norwegian Institute of Public ...


Researchers investigate prenatal smoking link with antisocial behavior in children

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created Feb 02, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

A Cardiff University research project has for the first time studied whether smoking during pregnancy can directly make children more likely to behave anti-socially.


C-sections a critical factor in preterm birth increase

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created May 28, 2008 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Cesarean sections account for nearly all of the increase in U.S. singleton preterm births, according to an analysis of nine years of national birth data.


Less child mortality among taller women in developing countries

Medicine & Health / Health

created Feb 02, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Each centimeter/inch counts for women in developing countries. This is the outcome of research by Christiaan Monden of Tilburg University and Jeroen Smits of Radboud University Nijmegen in the Netherlands, which was recently ...


New study finds home birth safe

Medicine & Health / Health

created Sep 18, 2009 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (6) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- A new study by McMaster University researchers has found low-risk women who have midwives in attendance during birth have positive outcomes regardless of where the delivery takes place.


'You will give birth in pain': Neanderthals too

'You will give birth in pain': Neanderthals too

Other Sciences / Archaeology & Fossils

created Apr 21, 2009 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (11) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- Researchers from the University of California at Davis (USA) and the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in Leipzig (Germany) present a virtual reconstruction of a female Neanderthal ...



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