Sugary drinks during pregnancy may elevate asthma risk in kids
After their first and second trimesters, mothers who participated in the study completed questionnaires about their food and beverage consumption, including regular soda and fruit drinks.
Expecting mothers, take note! Here's how exposure to smoke during pregnancy can harm your baby
The team conducted a study on 376 newborns and obtained detailed information from parents about smoking exposure during pregnancy and in the home at three and 15 months of age.
Dec 07, 2017, 12:59 PM IST
Stress hormone higher in pregnant women with PTSD
Researchers found that those with a dissociative type of PTSD, which is often related to childhood abuse or trauma, had up to 10 times higher cortisol levels than their peers.
Dec 06, 2017, 11:40 AM IST
HC allows 13-year-old rape victim to abort 26-week old foetus
The law does not allow abortion after 20 weeks of pregnancy.
Dec 05, 2017, 21:01 PM IST
Pregnant and obese? Your baby could be unusually large, says study
The current study, involving 443 obese and 2,320 non-obese mothers and their babies, showed differences in the infants as early as the second trimester.
Dec 05, 2017, 13:03 PM IST
Less sleep related to gestational diabetes in pregnant women
Sleep is a very important lifestyle change besides diet and exercise which can do wonders to the blood sugar levels.
Dec 05, 2017, 11:21 AM IST
Study finds stress during pregnancy affects baby's size
Maternal stress during gestation causes numerous effects on infant physiology that extend well into adulthood.
Nov 29, 2017, 18:26 PM IST
Immunotherapy drug shows promise in treating rare pregnancy cancer
The findings suggest that immunotherapy could be used as a safer alternative to conventional treatment for the disease.
Nov 27, 2017, 13:25 PM IST
Aspirin during pregnancy could double the risk of cerebral palsy in babies
For the study, published in the International Journal of Epidemiology, the researchers examined 1,85,617 mothers and their babies.
Nov 26, 2017, 13:40 PM IST
Smoking e-cigarettes during pregnancy could cause birth defects
E-cigarettes pose health risks despite being widely considered a safer alternative to tobacco cigarettes. Researchers exposed frog embryos and samples of mammalian neural crest cells to saline infused with e-cigarette vapour.
Nov 19, 2017, 16:40 PM IST
No need to delay conception after a miscarriage, suggests study
The World Health Organization (WHO) currently recommends waiting at least 6 months before attempting another pregnancy.
Nov 16, 2017, 18:05 PM IST
Gestational diabetes, high BP during pregnancy may increase heart disease risk
The results found that even the fathers of the new born babies were also relatively affected by the chances of heart diseases and hypertension risks in their later lives.
Nov 16, 2017, 08:48 AM IST
Postpartum depression common among fathers too, but goes undetected: Study
The study of 447 new fathers showed that the established method of detecting depression EPDS (Edinburgh Postnatal Depression Scale) works poorly on men.
Nov 07, 2017, 18:48 PM IST
Vaccine for streptococcus could prevent over 100,000 stillbirths globally: Research
One in five pregnant women carries the bacteria, which can cause meningitis and also life-threatening septicaemia – blood poisoning – in them and their baby.
Nov 06, 2017, 12:49 PM IST
Bizarre! Woman becomes pregnant while already pregnant – Here's what happened
Superfetation, a rare condition, is the occurrence of a second conception during pregnancy, giving rise to embryos of different ages in the uterus.
Nov 03, 2017, 10:26 AM IST
Teenaged mothers at heart disease risk later in life
Women whose first births occurred at older ages had lower average risk scores the lowest cardiovascular risk, however, was among women who had never given birth.
Nov 02, 2017, 14:42 PM IST
Delaying umbilical cord clamping can prevent deaths of premature babies: Study
Globally, about 15 million babies are born before 37 weeks gestation annually and one million die.
Nov 01, 2017, 10:22 AM IST
Consumption of fish during pregnancy can curb baby's risk of asthma
The study, published in the Journal of Allergy and Clinical Immunology: In Practice, was conducted in three groups of women in their third trimester.
Oct 31, 2017, 17:25 PM IST
Study associates infertility in women to higher risk of premature death
The study followed more than 78,000 women for 13 years, 14 percent of whom reported infertility, an inability to conceive for one year or more.
Oct 31, 2017, 10:49 AM IST
A glass of red wine every week may improve chances of pregnancy: Study
Researchers found that those who consumed more than five servings of red wine a month enjoyed a higher ovarian reserve – a measure of a woman’s reproductive health.
Oct 30, 2017, 10:28 AM IST
