New DNA Test Offers Miscarriage Clues
Twenty percent of all pregnancies end in miscarriage and recurrent miscarriage happens to about 5% of all couples trying to have a family.
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Lack of Oxygen In-Utero Linked to ADHD
Having the correct amount of oxygen delivered to growing organs and
cells of the fetus are important to healthy fetal development, but researchers at Kaiser Permanente suggest oxygen levels are important in functional development as well.
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Treatments Options for Ectopic Pregnancy
Ectopic pregnancy is one of the main causes of death during pregnancy and fertility is at stake for survivors.
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Human Somatic Cells and Oocytes Age Differently - Study
Human somatic cells and reproductive cells use distinctive organic
mechanisms that exhibit a thin line of similarities between the kinds of
genes needed to keep oocytes strong and fertile and the genes that
extend life expectancy.
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Babies Born to Emotionally Distant Dads Face Tough First Year
Paul Raeburn's book highlights the lack of scientific research on the father-child connection and confirms the value of this relationship.
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Fetal Alcohol Syndrome Test on the Horizon
Researchers have found evidence of gestational alcohol intake in the first infant bowel movement.
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Chemotherapy During Pregnancy: No Developmental Problem Risk
Using chemotherapy during pregnancy for the treatment of cancer comes
with great concern for the health of the fetus. Researchers have
recently completed a study involving a small number of children born
after in-utero exposure to chemotherapy.
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“Black Box” of Embryo Implantation Discovered and Filmed
In spite of a wealth of medical knowledge surrounding reproduction, one aspect of embryo development, implantation, has remained a mystery. But researchers now say they've filmed it in action.
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Age and Female Fertility: New Discoveries
General medical knowledge for the past 50 years has maintained that a woman's fertility drastically declines after age 35. This has caused many women in their late 30's and early 40's to go running to a fertility doctor at the first sign of difficulty conceiving.
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Chemotherapy Has Bigger Impact on Fertility
New research indicates that chemotherapy has a bigger impact on female fertility than many reports reveal. The new research results could give doctors and patients more
appropriate and realistic information on the long-term effects of
chemotherapy on fertility.
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Functional Vaginas May Bring Fertility to Girls Born Without
With Mayer-Rokitansky-Küster-Hauser syndrome (MRKH), girls are born without vaginas.
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Parents: Put Down Your Devices
A pediatrician and a psychologist fear our children may pay the ultimate price of tech-savvy parents.
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Doctors Group OKs Warm Water Soak During Labor, Not Delivery
A warm water soak in the early stages of labor are likely to prove beneficial to the mother but they find no evidence that giving birth underwater benefits either mother or baby.
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Microscope Shows Sperm's Final Push to Fertilization
No one had ever witnessed this event before but it could become instrumental in improving the success rate of in vitro fertilization (IVF).
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Prolonged Temporary Employment Can Delay Pregnancy
Researchers now think there is an association between a woman's employment status and the age at which she has her first child. A woman who works at temporary jobs is less likely to have her first child by the age of 35, according to a new study.
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Fiber Mesh Fabric Prevents Pregnancy and HIV
According to a research study published in PLoS One, the fibers can be modified to release medications immediately or over the course of a few days ' ideal for women seeking pregnancy and HIV protection other than the condom.
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Coughs, Sneezes Spread Flu Germs Farther Than Expected
The gas cloud that forms after a cough or a sneeze is a lot more
complicated than originally thought, according to a team of researchers
at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT).
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New Study: Brain Function and Fertility
A recent study brings scientists a step closer to understanding the critical connection between brain function and fertility.
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Autism and Glutamate Receptors
Using data on the action of mGlu5 receptors on the cell's surface, pharmaceutical companies developed drugs that would lower the volume of the surface receptors and control autistic behavior.
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Mom and Dad Experience Brain Changes After Baby
The brains of the homosexual fathers changed most of all, responding to their child’s signals the way heterosexual mothers and heterosexual fathers responded.
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Male Infertility: Scientists Insert Nanoparticles into Sperm
Researchers at Oxford University have developed a new way to insert
special nanoparticles into sperm. This new technique could someday help
doctors discover, diagnose and treat the underlying causes of
infertility.
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Things We Just Don’t Know About Making Babies
A group of researchers at the Yale University School of Medicine used the internet to find out what American women of reproductive age think they know about making babies.
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Swedish Uterus Transplant: First Successful Embyro
The Swedish team of medical specialists has just announced that the first embryo implant has taken place. Others will follow in the coming months.
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Oxytocin May Help Children with Autism
A single dose of oxytocin enhances brain activity while children with autism engage in social information, according to results of a recent study performed by researchers from Yale University.
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Ring Finger Length and Future Health Problems
For ages, the length of the ring finger has been the topic of medical attention, but ring finger length is mentioned in history far before modern medicine. Culturally, men with longer ring fingers were considered more fertile and thus more sought after as life-long mates.
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Video Tracking System Identifies Healthiest Living Sperm
A multinational, multidisciplinary team of European researchers has
devised a three-dimensional (3-D) video tracking system that allows
observer to watch living sperm in motion.
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Do Raspberries Boost Fertility?
Two newspapers in the United Kingdom recently reported that eating raspberries could boost fertility; scientists now call these reports 'misleading.'
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Cluster of Rare Birth Defects in Washington
There's a mystery involving rare birth defects in a small rural area of Washington state that's pitting mothers and medical personnel against the state's health department.
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Help or Be a Helper: Which Word Choice Motivates Kids?
A team of psychologists says choosing the right word when asking for help from a child makes a difference.
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Testicular Tissue to Preserve Fertility for Boys with Cancer
An increasingly important aspect of cancer treatment in children is how cancer treatment today affects the child's ability to reproduce as an adult.
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Blue-Light Goggles in Development to Prevent Preterm Labor
Approximately 35% of all infant deaths in the US are linked to preterm labor. These grim statistics have led one professor on a quest to find a safe and effective way to prevent preterm labor.
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Scotland Considers Adding Gestation Length to School Records
Researchers in Scotland have proposed adding gestation length to a child's school records to identify the preemies so school teachers will know which kids might need a little special attention.
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Smoking During Pregnancy Not Linked to Autism
Tobacco smoke and the chemicals produced have long been linked to problems and conditions with the fetus. The conditions range from low birth weight, prematurity and in some instances birth defects.
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Danish Study: Lifestyle Choices Reduce Risk of Miscarriage
A research team based at the University of Copenhagen explored the incidence of miscarriage in Denmark to see if there might be ways to prevent them.
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Early Predictor for Postpartum Depression
A new study from Belgium studied positive feelings during pregnancy and the likelihood of postpartum depression.
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Assisted Conception: Childhood Cancer Risk
Children born as a result of assisted conception do not have a greater risk of cancer than are children conceived by spontaneous conception.
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Beta Cell Function Decline and Glucose Intolerance
Researchers from the Department of Internal Medicine at Keio University in Tokyo recently published a study in the Journal of Endocrinology regarding a possible cause or contributing factor in gestational diabetes.
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Benefits of Antiretroviral Drugs During Pregnancy
The findings of a recent study may quiet concerns that the babies of women who are HIV-positive during pregnancy will be more prone to birth defects if the mother takes antiretroviral drugs.
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Students Save Struggling Newborns Around the World
Four students enrolled in Stanford University's Design for extreme affordability course developed an innovative new incubator that mothers in remote villages around the world are using to save the lives.
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A New Life-Saving Device for Preemies
At Rice University in Houston, Texas one group of their students has turned to shoe boxes and aquarium pumps to bring the breath of life to babies born prematurely.
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Increased Risk of Autism for Children of Mothers with Lupus
Children born to mothers with Lupus are at twice the risk of developing autism spectrum disorders (ASD) than are those born to women without the disease, according to a new study.
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New Understanding of Preeclampsia May Lead to Future Drug Therapies
Preeclampsia 'has puzzled scientists for year." But lead research scientist's discoveries offer hope for drug therapies that could be used in the future to treat preeclampsia before any harm is done.
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Study Finds Rural India Maternal Health Program Ineffective
A high profile maternal health program in India fails to deliver on its promises to reduce infant and maternal deaths in rural areas, according to a new study. The program had intended to reduce mortality by encouraging women to deliver in private hospitals.
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Blood Test for Pregnant Women Shows RNA Activity in Fetus
Researchers at Stanford University in California have developed a test that uses a small sample of a pregnant woman's blood to monitor the RNA activity of a fetus throughout pregnancy.
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Exposure to BPA May Decrease Fertility in Women
The chemical BPA may cause infertility in women, according to a new study by Brigham and Women's Hospitals (BWM). The study, published online in the journal Human Reproduction, is the first research of its kind.
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Procedure to Reduce Postpartum Bleeding is a Step Closer to Reality
A procedure that promises to prevent the fatal loss of blood after childbirth (postpartum bleeding) in women residing in developing countries moves closer to becoming a reality.
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Taste Receptors on Testicles Linked to Fertility
Sometimes the most well-laid scientific plans can take a
surprising turn. That happened recently at Philadelphia's Monell
Chemical Senses Center, where a team of researchers was experimenting on
mice and their taste receptors.
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The Changing Shape of Female Fertility
According to research data compiled over 55 years, natural selection is moving from short, stout women to tall thin women ' a change that could have global implications, according to researchers.
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World's First Baby Born from Ovarian Tissue
A young girl in Belgium faced a lifetime of debilitating pain and organ damage due to sickle cell disease. Doctors proposed a stem cell transplant, which would save her life but destroy her ovaries.
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Babies May Gain Immunity at Conception
A recent study suggests a degree of immunity might also be conveyed to the baby at the time of its conception.
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