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Cell Phones Risky During Pregnancy?
May 21, 2008 -- Mothers who use cell phones during pregnancy -- and let their small children use cell phones -- increase their child's risk of serious behavior problems by 80%. Or maybe not. "This is just a statistical association. We don't know if it is causal or not," study researcher Jorn Olsen,
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C-Section Tied to Childhood Asthma?
May 21, 2008 -- Cesarean section rather than vaginal deliveries may raise the risk of childhood asthma and allergies by interfering with the child’s immune system development, according to a new study. Researchers say previous studies have suggested that babies born via C-section are more likely to
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Pregnancy Stress Ups Kids' Asthma Risk
May 19, 2008 -- Stressful events experienced during pregnancy may be passed on to babies as an increased risk for asthma and allergies. That is the finding from an ongoing study by researchers at Harvard Medical School examining the impact of parental stress on child asthma risk in an inner city pop
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Pregnancy: High-Normal Blood Sugar Risky
May 7, 2008 -- Babies born to women with even slightly higher-than-normal blood sugar levels are at increased risk for a range of pregnancy and delivery-related complications, findings from an international study confirm. The large study examined the risks associated with having elevated blood sugar
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Antidepressants Linked to Preterm Birth
May 5, 2008 (Washington) -- Taking antidepressants in pregnancy may raise the risk of giving birth prematurely, researchers report. But left untreated, depression may also increase the chance of preterm birth, says researcher Katherine Wisner, MD, professor of psychiatry, ob-gyn, and women's studies
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Ominous Rise in Pre-Pregnancy Diabetes
April 28, 2008 -- Diabetes before pregnancy -- linked to miscarriage and birth defects -- has doubled in six years. The finding comes from analysis of data on more than 175,000 pregnant women treated in Kaiser Permanente hospitals from 1999 through 2005. The researchers focused on the 2,784 births t
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Mom's Diet May Influence Her Baby's Sex
April 22, 2008 -- In addition to being the most important meal of the day, breakfast may help determine your unborn baby's sex. In a newly reported study, women who ate breakfast cereal gave birth to more boys, while those who skipped breakfast had more girls. Women who ate more total calories also
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Weight, Sex Affect Early Preterm Survival
April 16, 2008 -- For babies born extremely early, new research shows that four factors -- aside from the baby's gestational age -- may affect their odds of survival if given intensive care. The four factors are: Sex (survival is better for girls) Single birth or multiple birth (survival is better f
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Pregnancy Smoking May Hurt Baby's Heart
April 7, 2008 -- Women who smoke in the month before getting pregnant or during the first trimester of pregnancy may be more likely to have babies with congenital heart defects. That news appears in the April edition of Pediatrics. Congenital heart defects are the most common type of structural birt
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Exercising for Two: Workout Helps Fetus
April 8, 2008 -- Exercising during pregnancy may not only benefit mom, it may also get baby off to a healthier start. A new study shows that pregnant women who exercised for at least 30 minutes three times a week had fetuses with lower heart rates during the final weeks of development. Although it w
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