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NEW YORK (Reuters) - Some studies have suggested that working the night shift may raise a pregnant woman's risks of preterm delivery or having an underweight baby, but a review says that if those effects exist, they are likely to be small.After ...
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - New research on the links between seizure medication and pregnancy complications highlights the hard choices that pregnant women with epilepsy must make.Scientists from the University of Bergen in Norway found that women with epilepsy are more likely ...
CHICAGO (Reuters) - More than 2.6 million pregnancies a year end in stillbirth, a tragedy which mostly hits women in poor countries and accounts for more deaths than AIDS and malaria combined, researchers said on Wednesday.A series of studies published in the ...
BERLIN (Reuters) - Doctors in Germany have captured a live birth by open MRI (magnetic resonance imaging) for the first time, offering insight into potential pregnancy complications, Berlin's Charite hospital said on Wednesday."The main reasons for the research are to answer the ...
NEW DELHI (Reuters) - India has halved the number of women who die during childbirth, but experts warned on Wednesday a lack of facilities is likely to stop the country from meeting global goals for improving maternal health before 2015.Countries agreed to ...
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Even if they aren't staffed to handle emergency cesarean sections, hospitals should respect a woman's informed choice to have a vaginal birth after cesarean (VBAC), new guidelines say.VBAC is known to increase the risk that the scar ...
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Women who suffered a stillbirth during their first pregnancy are more likely than other women to lose their second pregnancy as well, a new study suggests.The study, which examined births among all Scottish women who had their ...
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - The gout drug colchicine is safe for women to take during pregnancy, report researchers from Israel.In addition to the debilitating joint disorder gout, the inflammation-fighting drug colchicine has been used for decades to prevent and treat familial ...
KIGALI (Reuters) - At midnight Valentine Uwingabire's back began to hurt. Her husband ran to tell Germaine Uwera, a community health worker in their village in the fertile foothills of Rwanda's Volcanoes National Park.Equipped with a mobile phone from the local health ...
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - The number of Cesarean sections performed at hospitals across British Columbia is highly variable, Canadian researchers have found.Even when accounting for differences in women's preferences and conditions that could complicate vaginal delivery, C-section rates varied from less ...
