Hormones can change the breast’s genetic material
Melbourne scientists have discovered how female steroid hormones can make dramatic changes to the genetic material in breast cells, changes that could potentially lead to breast cancer.
Researchers from the Walter and Eliza Hall Institute...
Fertility, childbearing and gynaecological cancer
The need to consider fertility sparing treatment for women with gynaecological malignancy has gone up over the years as women are increasingly delaying conception. In the UK, there are annually over 1000 women with...
Midwife-led birth centers improve outcomes and lower health care costs
As health care costs and the rate of cesarean births for expecting mothers have escalated over the past two decades in the United States, a new study released today shows that women who receive...
Placental complications linked to hyperemesis gravidarum in the second trimester
Pregnancies complicated by hyperemesis gravidarum in the second trimester of pregnancy are at a much higher risk of associated placental dysfunction disorders such as placental abruption and small for gestational age babies (SGA), finds...
Second trimester markers for Down’s syndrome
A new analysis has found that some second trimester markers for Down’s syndrome that are detected by ultrasound are more telling than others. Published online in Ultrasound in Obstetrics & Gynecology, the study’s results...
H1N1 flu shots are safe for pregnant women
Norwegian pregnant women who received a vaccine against the 2009 H1N1 influenza virus showed no increased risk of pregnancy loss, while pregnant women who experienced influenza during pregnancy had an increased risk of miscarriages...
Exposure to antiepileptic drug in womb linked to autism risk
Children whose mothers take the antiepileptic drug sodium valproate while pregnant are at significantly increased risk of autism and other neurodevelopmental disorders, suggests a small study published online in the Journal of Neurology Neurosurgery...
Prenatal inflammation linked to autism risk
Maternal inflammation during early pregnancy may be related to an increased risk of autism in children, according to new findings supported by the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (NIEHS), part of the National...
Jet fuel, plastics exposures cause disease in later generations of children
Washington State University researchers have lengthened their list of environmental toxicants that can negatively affect as many as three generations of an exposed animal’s offspring.
Writing in the online journal PLOS ONE, scientists led by...
Spotting fetal growth problems early could drop rate of stillbirths
Growth restriction in an unborn child is the single largest risk factor for stillbirth, especially when it goes unrecognised before birth, yet it is currently missed in most pregnancies.
The authors of the study say...
