Copyright 2009 Medical News Today Latest Pregnancy / Obstetrics News From Medical News Today. http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/sections/pregnancy/ admin@medicalnewstoday.com (MNT Admin) editors@medicalnewstoday.com (MNT Editors) en-us Mon, 06 Jul 2009 02:00:00 PDT http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/156455.php http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/156455.php A group of international experts will meet at the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists (RCOG) on the occasion of South Asia Day to discuss ways to achieve Millennium Development Goals 4 (reduce child mortality) and 5 (improve maternal health). This historic conference gathers together specialists in obstetrics and gynaecology, midwives, health care providers and policy makers to share experiences and discuss strategies to improve women's health in South Asia. Women's Health / Gynecology Mon, 06 Jul 2009 02:00:00 PDT http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/156456.php http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/156456.php New strategies to reduce maternal death in Bangladesh will be presented at the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists (RCOG) South Asia Day. The conference gathers together a group of international experts to discuss ways to achieve Millennium Development Goals 4 (reduce child mortality) and 5 (improve maternal health). The maternal mortality ratio has significantly declined in Bangladesh, from 512 deaths per 100,000 live births in 1996-2000, to 3. Pregnancy / Obstetrics Mon, 06 Jul 2009 02:00:00 PDT http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/156457.php http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/156457.php Women in Nepal face the highest risk of maternal death in South Asia. The country's high rates of maternal death and reproductive morbidity will be discussed at the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists (RCOG) South Asia Day. The conference gathers together a group of international experts to discuss ways to achieve Millennium Development Goals 4 (reduce child mortality) and 5 (improve maternal health). Pregnancy / Obstetrics Mon, 06 Jul 2009 02:00:00 PDT http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/156458.php http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/156458.php Despite recent internal conflict, Sri Lanka has emerged as a success story in promoting safer childbirth. The country's significant decline in maternal deaths will be presented today at the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists (RCOG) South Asia Day. The conference gathers together a group of international experts to discuss maternal and child health in South Asia. Presenters at the conference describe Sri Lanka as a model for cost-effective healthcare. Pregnancy / Obstetrics Fri, 03 Jul 2009 02:00:00 PDT http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/156279.php http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/156279.php A mother's weight and the amount she gains during pregnancy both impact her daughter's risk of obesity decades later, according to a new study by Alison Stuebe, M.D., assistant professor of obstetrics and gynecology at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill School of Medicine. "The findings are especially important because of the growing epidemic of obesity in women," Stuebe says. Obesity / Weight Loss / Fitness Fri, 03 Jul 2009 01:00:00 PDT http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/156235.php http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/156235.php The largest study to date of endometriosis in pregnant women has found that the condition is a major risk factor for premature birth, the 25th annual conference of the European Society of Human Reproduction and Embryology heard. Dr. Pregnancy / Obstetrics Thu, 02 Jul 2009 07:00:00 PDT http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/156207.php http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/156207.php Governor M. Jodi Rell announced that the State of Connecticut is receiving $3.75 million federal grant to expand access to health care in Hartford for low-income women nearing childbirth to ensure their newborns get a healthy start. "Our children are our most precious resource and the health of a child is intrinsic to the health of the mother," stated Governor Rell. Pregnancy / Obstetrics Thu, 02 Jul 2009 06:00:00 PDT http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/156125.php http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/156125.php Inter Press Service News Agency examines the prevalence of obstetric fistula in the southern region of Senegal. According to state reproductive health officials in the town of Kolda, 58 percent of births take place at home without medical assistance. Pregnancy / Obstetrics Thu, 02 Jul 2009 06:00:00 PDT http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/156146.php http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/156146.php Michigan from 1992 to 2007 experienced improvements in rates of teenage pregnancies, smoking among pregnant women, and six other indicators of maternal and infant health, though there was an increase in out-of-wedlock births and low-birthweight infants, according to a Michigan League for Human Services report issued Tuesday, the Pregnancy / Obstetrics Thu, 02 Jul 2009 05:00:00 PDT http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/156176.php http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/156176.php Today, the Prime Minister, Gordon Brown, said he was determined to keep the issue of maternal mortality high on the agenda of the G8 summit in Italy next week. Speaking after meeting with midwives and doctors from the Global Maternal Mortality Campaign, the Prime Minister said: "It's outrageous that one woman dies every minute in childbirth, despite an agreement to tackle this in 2000. Pregnancy / Obstetrics Thu, 02 Jul 2009 03:00:00 PDT http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/156130.php http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/156130.php Complications during pregnancy may increase the risk of having a child with autism, according to American researchers. The team reviewed 64 studies of prenatal risk factors for autism. It is the first time a meta-analysis of the relationship between pregnancy-related factors and risk of autism has been carried out. The analysis is published in the July issue of the British Journal of Psychiatry. Over 50 prenatal factors were examined. Pregnancy / Obstetrics Thu, 02 Jul 2009 02:00:00 PDT http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/156102.php http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/156102.php Survivors of childhood cancer run particular risks when pregnant and should be closely monitored, the 25th annual conference of the European Society of Human Reproduction and Embryology heard today (Wednesday 1 July). Dr. Cancer / Oncology Thu, 02 Jul 2009 02:00:00 PDT http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/156103.php http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/156103.php For the first time, researchers have been able to identify genetic predictors of the potential success or failure of IVF treatment in blood. Dr. Cathy Allen, from the Rotunda Hospital, Dublin, Ireland, told the 25th annual conference of the European Society of Human Reproduction and Embryology today (Wednesday 1 July) that her research would help understand why IVF works for some patients but not for others. Pregnancy / Obstetrics Thu, 02 Jul 2009 01:00:00 PDT http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/156078.php http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/156078.php Teva Pharmaceutical Industries Ltd. (Nasdaq: TEVA) announced that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration has granted approval for the Company's Abbreviated New Drug Application (ANDA) to market a generic version of Ortho McNeil Janssen's oral contraceptive, Ortho Tri-Cyclen® Lo. Shipment of this product, for which Teva's trade name is Tri-Lo Sprintec, has commenced. Pregnancy / Obstetrics Wed, 01 Jul 2009 07:00:00 PDT http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/156011.php http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/156011.php Transferring just one embryo at a time to a woman's womb after embryos have undergone preimplantation genetic diagnosis (PGD) and freezing at the blastocyst stage has become a real option after researchers achieved pregnancy rates that were as good as those for blastocysts that had not had a cell removed for PGD before freezing. Fertility Wed, 01 Jul 2009 06:00:00 PDT http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/156010.php http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/156010.php Researchers have found evidence that chronic disease in either a mother or father can create unfavourable conditions in the womb that are associated with the development of polycystic ovarian syndrome (PCOS) in daughters. In another study, researchers found that brothers of women with PCOS and insulin resistance are themselves at greater risk of developing insulin resistance or diabetes, suggesting that factors associated with the condition can be passed down to sons as well as daughters. Women's Health / Gynecology Wed, 01 Jul 2009 05:00:00 PDT http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/156006.php http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/156006.php Women who have a diminished number of eggs in their ovaries, either because they are older or for some other reason such as ovarian surgery, may be more at risk of a trisomic pregnancy than women with an ovarian reserve within the normal, fertile range. Trisomic pregnancies occur when the embryo has three copies of a chromosome rather than the normal two. The most common trisomy is Down's syndrome or trisomy 21. Fertility Wed, 01 Jul 2009 05:00:00 PDT http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/156018.php http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/156018.php A major new trial recently published in the journal Fertility and Sterility shows that for couples beginning infertility treatments, an accelerated path to in-vitro fertilization (IVF) can offer a shorter time to pregnancy, cost savings of nearly $10,000, and a lowered risk of multiple births. For the first time, these results demonstrate that the long held treatment combining fertility injections with insemination (IUI) does not have a place in infertility treatments today. Fertility Wed, 01 Jul 2009 05:00:00 PDT http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/156022.php http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/156022.php Wide gaps in quality outcomes for women persist, not only when compared to men, but among hospitals and states, according to a new study released by HealthGrades, the leading independent healthcare ratings organization. The Sixth Annual HealthGrades Women's Health in American Hospitals study identifies patient outcomes for maternity care and inhospital treatment of 16 procedures/diagnoses concerning women's health. Women's Health / Gynecology Wed, 01 Jul 2009 04:00:00 PDT http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/156009.php http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/156009.php Women with cystic fibrosis can have fertility treatment to help them have babies without any long-term adverse effects on either themselves or their children, according to new research presented at the 25th annual meeting of the European Society of Human Reproduction and Embryology in Amsterdam. Until relatively recently, cystic fibrosis (CF) was a death sentence and most people with the disease died by the time they reached their teenage years. Cystic Fibrosis Tue, 30 Jun 2009 07:00:00 PDT http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/155879.php http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/155879.php Visitors can see how their stress levels could affect the heart rate of their unborn baby and find out why pregnant women should reduce their anxiety, at a new exhibit at the Royal Society Summer Science Exhibition, which opens today (30 June 2009). The researchers behind the exhibit, from Imperial College London, hope that it will raise families' awareness of the importance of reducing levels of stress and anxiety in expectant mothers. Pregnancy / Obstetrics Tue, 30 Jun 2009 05:00:00 PDT http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/155777.php http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/155777.php Federally mandated health insurance coverage of in vitro fertilization for women of childbearing age "could lower the extraordinary health care costs associated with the birth of triplets or more" and "even the reproductive odds, giving the middle-class and lower-income Americans access to treatment that is currently reserved for the well-off or the unusually well insured," according to a Fertility Tue, 30 Jun 2009 05:00:00 PDT http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/155847.php http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/155847.php Dutch researchers have found the first evidence that a process of inactivating the X chromosome during embryo development and implantation, which was known to occur in mice but unknown in humans, does, in fact, take place in human female embryos prior to implantation in the womb. Fertility Tue, 30 Jun 2009 03:00:00 PDT http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/155773.php http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/155773.php Ultra-fast freezing of ovarian tissue from women who have lost their fertility as a result of cancer treatment can lead to it being used in transplants with the same success rate as fresh tissue, a researcher told the 25th annual conference of the European Society of Human Reproduction and Embryology 29 June. Dr. Sherman Silber, Director of the St. Louis Infertility Centre, St. Fertility Tue, 30 Jun 2009 03:00:00 PDT http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/155788.php http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/155788.php Swedish researchers have discovered that babies born by Caesarean section experience changes to the DNA pool in their white blood cells, which could be connected to altered stress levels during this method of delivery, according to the July issue of Acta Paediatrica. Pregnancy / Obstetrics