News tagged with labour room

Laboring without the labor bed: It's a good thing

A University of Toronto pilot study that re-conceptualized the hospital labour room by removing the standard, clinical bed and adding relaxation-promoting equipment had a 28 per cent drop in infusions of artificial oxcytocin, ...

Medicine & Health / Other

created Jul 06, 2009 | popularity 3.5 / 5 (2) | comments 2




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Stroke: Restructuring the brain

(Medical Xpress) -- Neuroscientists are exploring the structural changes in the brain’s white and grey matter that underlie learning. Understanding the precise cellular nature of those changes may improve ...

Medicine & Health / Neuroscience

created Dec 06, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0 | with audio podcast

New study on maternity care published

(Medical Xpress) -- The result of a major study comparing two methods of maternity care, commissioned by the HSE and conducted by the School of Nursing and Midwifery, Trinity College Dublin, has been published recently in ...

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created Nov 18, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Turkish womb transplant promises hope for women

Lying on a hospital bed in her laced violet nightgown, Derya Sert is the first woman in the world to receive a womb from a deceased donor, raising hopes for millions of women to bear a child.

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created Oct 01, 2011 | popularity 3.5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

How single stars lost their companions

(PhysOrg.com) -- Not all stars are loners. In our home galaxy, the Milky Way, about half of all stars have a companion and travel through space in a binary system. But explaining why some stars are in double ...

Space & Earth / Astronomy

created Sep 15, 2011 | popularity 3.3 / 5 (3) | comments 1 | with audio podcast

Before DNA: 20th-century forensics

Historians tend to see the birth of DNA fingerprinting in 1985 as a watershed in forensic investigation - the moment that gave birth to the systematic crime scene analysis we associate with TV programmes like ...

Other Sciences / Other

created Sep 06, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

British lawmakers in rare debate on abortion law

(AP) -- British lawmakers are reconsidering the country's approach to abortion, igniting a debate over whether clinics that are paid to carry out abortions should also be allowed to give advice to women unsure how to handle ...

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created Sep 06, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 1

Britain shocked by hacking into slain girl's phone

(AP) -- Britain's long-running phone hacking scandal has taken a sickening twist, with claims that a tabloid newspaper hacked into the phone mail of an abducted teenage girl and may have hampered the police ...

Technology / Other

created Jul 05, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Fukushima raises questions about new Finnish reactor

More than 5,000 hard-hat workers swarm over a sprawling nuclear facility in western Finland to build OL3 -- touted as the safest nuclear reactor in the world -- a claim which has come under scrutiny following ...

Technology / Energy & Green Tech

created Jun 21, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Japan uses colour dye to trace nuclear leak

Emergency crew at Japan's tsunami-hit nuclear plant used a colour dye Monday to trace the source of a radioactive leak as lower business confidence signalled the disaster's economic impact.

Space & Earth / Environment

created Apr 04, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 1

Oxytocin medication often unnecessary in normal deliveries

It is standard practice in Swedish delivery rooms to use oxytocin to stimulate a labour that has been slow to start or has grind to a halt for a few hours. However, it is also fine to wait for a further three hours in first-time ...

Medicine & Health / Medications

created Nov 16, 2010 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0


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