Breastfed Children Have Fewer Mental Health Issues
Children who are breastfed are less likely to suffer from behavioral or mental health issues than that who are not breastfed, finds a new study....
View ArticleCDC Releases New Infant Mortality Data
The United States ranked 29th in the world in infant mortality in 2004, compared to 27th in 2000, 23rd in 1990 and 12th in 1960, according to a new report from CDC?s National Center for Health...
View ArticleTrying to Take Back Childbirth
Growing Number of Women Want Birth to Be a Natural Process, Not a Medical One http://abcnews.go.com/Health/ReproductiveHealth/Story?id=5462833&page=1
View ArticleStudy links sexual content on TV to teen pregnancy
Sexual content on television is strongly associated with teen pregnancy, a new study from the RAND Corporation shows. Researchers at the nonprofit organization found that adolescents with a high level...
View ArticleMany C-Sections Can Be Avoided By Waiting Out Stalled Labor, UCSF Study Shows
Pregnant women whose labor stalls while in the active phase of childbirth can reduce health risks to themselves and their infants by waiting out the delivery process for an extra two hours, according...
View ArticleStudy: High-tech interventions deliver huge childbirth bill
Childbirth is the leading reason for hospitalization in the USA and one of the top reasons for outpatient visits, yet much maternity care consists of high-tech procedures that lack scientific evidence...
View ArticlePrenatal Exposure To Famine May Lead To Persistent Epigenetic Changes
A study initiated by researchers at Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health and the Leiden University Medical Center in the Netherlands suggests that prenatal exposure to famine can lead to...
View ArticleWhen Research is Flawed: Critiques of Influential Research Studies
(By Henci Goer) – In order to offer evidence-based maternity care, we need to keep up with the current research. Unfortunately, some research studies are poorly designed or biased – even when published...
View ArticleNatural Childbirth Moms More Attuned to Babies’ Cry
Mothers who delivered their babies vaginally appear to be much more sensitive to the cry of their own child within a few weeks of the birth compared with those who deliver by Caesarean section, a new...
View ArticleDown’s symptoms may be treatable in the womb
A pregnant woman who knows her unborn child has Down’s syndrome might one day be able to prevent some symptoms before giving birth. That at least is the hope raised by experiments in mice. When fetal...
View ArticleNo Benefit Shown From Drug Widely Used To Prevent Premature Births
When a pregnant woman goes into early labor, her obstetrician may give her drugs to quiet the woman’s uterus and prevent premature birth. New research shows, however, that one popular drug works no...
View ArticleBirth risks differ for Asian-Caucasian couples
New research indicates that the rates of cesarean deliveries, gestational diabetes, and other pregnancy-related outcomes differ among Asian, Caucasian, and interracial Asian-Caucasian couples. “Our...
View ArticleComparable Data On Maternal And Infant Health In Europe Available For The...
Promoting healthy pregnancy and safe childbirth is a goal of all European health care systems. Despite progress in recent decades, mothers and their babies are still very much at risk during the...
View ArticleIs Home Birth Safe?
Numerous studies have shown that for low-risk women home birth is indeed a safe choice. In fact, some studies have show that a homebirth can be a safer option than a hospital delivery for low-risk...
View ArticleIntegrating an eHealth Program for Pregnant Women in Midwifery Care: A...
Health messages may have the highest impact if they are given early in life. Therefore, the Dutch Ministry of Health identified pregnant women as a target population and initiated an innovative eHealth...
View ArticleHome births as safe as hospital
The latest research, published in BJOG: An International Journal of Obstetrics, focused on the Netherlands, where around 30 per cent of births take place at home. Of all births in England and Wales in...
View ArticleBPA, Chemical Used To Make Plastics, Found To Leach From Polycarbonate...
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/05/090521141208.htm A new study from Harvard School of Public Health (HSPH) researchers found that participants who drank for a week from polycarbonate bottles...
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