4-D Ultrasound | Breakthroughs in Diagnostic Imaging

Wendy Denmead couldn't believe her eyes during her most recent obstetrician visit. "With the 4-d ultrasound, it's like you're peeking right inside the womb. Wendy was truly able to get up close and personal with her baby, watching its every move...

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Beauty Guide For Pregnant Moms

“I am still worried about how the baby is developing,” says expectant mom, Lori Minkin. Lori is 5 months pregnant. Like all expectant moms, she is concerned that her baby is growing and is healthy. Before becoming pregnant Lori regularly hit...

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Birth Control Injection - Depo Provera

What is the Depo Provera?

Depo Provera is a birth control injection that a woman get every 3 months. It consists of a synthetic form of the female hormone progesterone.

Conception Date and Development

A new study shows that the month of conception may impact future academic achievement of children. Scientists at the Indiana University School of Medicine have observed a connection between academic progress and the time of year a child was...

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Condom Concerns

According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the battle towards prevention of sexually transmitted diseases needs to move front and center. Sexually transmitted disease prevention is a crucial issue, particularly since the rates...

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Discovery Links Pre-Eclampsia to Diet

Women with the condition pre-eclampsia have been found with red blood cells containing unusually high levels of a compound found in unpasteurized food, according to research published in the journal Reproductive Sciences. The findings are...

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Eating Less Extends Fertility

Eating less and more healthily may be just the ticket for women to add years to their fertile lives - as well as boosting their sex drive and sexual satisfaction, which are part and parcel of fertility. This is true if a study done recently...

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Embryonic Stem Cells

Embryonic stem cells have been making headlines recently. But among the talk, there is rarely a pause to explain what embryonic stem cells are, what makes them unique, and why they stir up so much debate.

Emergency Contraception Study

It's one of the most controversial medical issues: the use of the morning after pill as en emergency contraception method to prevent pregnancy. There is significant opposition to the drug treatment designed as an emergency contraception method,...

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Fertility Drugs Raise Cancer Risk

Taking medications to enhance fertility appears to increase the chance of developing uterine cancer in particular, as well as some other forms of the disease, according to a very large, long, recently completed study. Drugs that stimulate...

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Ice Cream and Infertility

Isn’t it great when medical research validates our vices? Like, the research recently released that dark chocolate is good for the cardiovascular system and the brain. Well, more good news tonight for women: eating ice cream could actually help...

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In Vitro Fertilization (IVF) - Making Futures Possible

Today, thanks to the miracle of science, thousands of couples desperately wanting children, who can't conceive naturally, are able to become parents. "In the in vitro fertilization process women are given hormonal treatments to try to stimulate...

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In-vitro Baby Born from Immature Frozen Egg

On June second, the first baby conceived from an egg that was matured in the lab before undergoing in-vitro fertilization was born in Canada and is progressing normally. The mother, as well as three other women, became pregnant through a...

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Infertility Treatment Jeopardize Pregnant Women's Health

Having three or more miscarriages and undergoing hormone treatment for infertility increase pregnant women’s risk for pre-eclampsia, a condition of high blood pressure during pregnancy, a recent investigation shows.

In the study,...

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Infertility and Cancer Risk

There is new evidence to suggest that women who have a history of infertility may be at increased risk for several types of female cancers. Are the treatments the source of the problem?

Inflammatory Bowel Disease

Inflammatory bowel disease can make life miserable for people who suffer from it. It is inconvenient to the point of adversely affecting the quality of life. “Because of inflammatory bowel syndrome, for my entire life, wherever I went I had to...

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Labor Pain control study

There is important new research which shows women can safely get significant labor pain relief early on in the course of labor. More than 3.5 million women go into labor each year, and almost half get an epidural anesthetic. Now this new study...

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Labor and Epidurals

Michelle Haziza is overwhelmed with joy at the arrival of her baby boy. But, at first, during the early stages of labor, she was overwhelmed with pain. "The pain was just so bad, it was unbearable, that I couldn't handle it." says Michelle. As...

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Maternal Age

What is the maximum possible maternal age, after which having a baby is simply out of the question? This is the question being raised in a major medical journal, especially in light of advanced maternal ages among women. More and more women are...

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Menstrual Migraine Treatment

There is new research tonight that provides powerful evidence of a treatment that works to prevent menstrual migraines in many women. Approximately half of all women who seek clinical treatment for migraines have reported an association between...

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Obesity Gene Also Codes for Polycystic Ovary Syndrome

The gene that codes for susceptibility to obesity also predisposes a woman to polycystic ovary syndrome (PCOS), a common cause of infertility, a recent study discovered.
   
The study, done by Tom Barber and his...

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Obesity and Impotence

There's good news and bad news for men suffering from impotence. The bad news, it appears that obesity is a significant contributing factor--a concern given the overall fattening of America. According to the authors of the new study, obesity...

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Paternal Discordance

The question of the day is, “Who’s your daddy?” A new study out says many dads are unknowingly raising someone else’s kids. The findings come from several international studies, including many done here in the U.S., between 1950 and 2004. The...

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Pesticides Found in Pregnant Women

Researchers have found the presence of numerous harmful pesticides in the placentas of pregnant women. According to a study by the University of Granada, fifteen different substances linked to pesticides have been found in pregnant women....

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Protein Boosts Sex Hormones, Suggesting Infertility Therapy

Giving a special hormone to infertile women can dramatically increase their production of sex hormones, which may lead to a new infertility treatment for women with low sex hormone levels, a recent study demonstrated.
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Scientists Clone Vital Sperm Protein

A protein vital for male fertility has been cloned, produced and purified, a recent study reported. The findings may open up new pathways in male fertility treatment and methods of male contraception.
   
The study,...

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Sperm Quality Worsens With Obesity

Obese men are three times more likely than normal-weight men to have low sperm counts and to have sperm that don't "swim upstream," a recent study showed. "There is a strong relationship between overweight and obesity and altered sperm...

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Stress and infertility

Are stress and infertility linked? Is the ability to conceive impacted by the pressures that people have to deal with in their daily lives? At the age of 36 Deborah Horskey was faced with a brutal reality. Her biological clock had been fast...

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Understanding Endometriosis | Symptoms, Causes, Treatments

What is the Endometriosis?

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Unicellular Test Lets Doctors Weed Out Mutated Embryos

A technique that allows doctors to find dangerous "microdeletions" in human embryo chromosomes can be used to reject embryos prone to developing cancer and other diseases in later life and to implant only healthy embryos, according to a recent...

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Using Frozen Embryos Increases Pregnancy Chances

The regular use of carefully chosen frozen embryos left over from fertility treatments dramatically increases the pregnancy success rate among infertile couples, a British clinic has found.
    
The new regimen holds...

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