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Some groups of migrant women in Australia are at a higher risk of medical interventions in childbirth that may lead to health problems for the mother or child, a new study has found. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-05-migrant-women-unassisted-birth.html Obstetrics & gynaecology Mon, 06 May 2013 08:41:50 EST news287048311 (HealthDay)—After five years of leveling off, the U.S. infant mortality rate is finally on the decline again, a new government report shows. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-04-infant-mortality.html Health Wed, 17 Apr 2013 10:20:01 EST news285411553 (HealthDay)—Nearly 20 percent of American teens who give birth have already had one or more babies, a federal study released Tuesday says. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-04-births-teen-girls-high-cdc.html Pediatrics Tue, 02 Apr 2013 13:10:01 EST news284125717 (Medical Xpress)—The average number of children women have over their lifetimes appears to be rising or to have stopped its decline in many countries characterized by low birth rates in the last decades. In many countries, including Germany, the US, the UK, and Japan, cohort fertility has been rising recently for those women born in the 1970s when compared to earlier generations. This is the result of new projections performed by the Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research (MPIDR) in Rostock, Germany, for 37 developed countries with a prolonged history of fertility below the replacement-level of 2.1 children per woman. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-03-trend-falling-cohort-birth-reverses.html Health Fri, 22 Mar 2013 10:08:14 EST news283165586 (HealthDay)—Rates of premature death in counties across the United States are the lowest in 20 years, but people in the least healthy counties are more than twice as likely to die early as those in the healthiest counties, according to a new report. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-03-healthy-county.html Health Wed, 20 Mar 2013 17:50:05 EST news283019833 Independent maternal demographic factors such as social status, ethnicity and maternal age can predict the likelihood of operative births in the UK, according to a new study published today (20 March) in BJOG: An International Journal of Obstetrics and Gynaecology. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-03-demographic-factors-births-uk-women.html Obstetrics & gynaecology Wed, 20 Mar 2013 13:11:49 EST news283003902 (AP)—The Philippine Supreme Court temporarily halted the implementation of a law that provides state funding for contraceptives, legislation opposed by the dominant Roman Catholic Church but supported by reproductive health activists. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-03-philippine-court-halts-contraceptives-law.html Health Tue, 19 Mar 2013 05:00:02 EST news282887448 Motor vehicle crashes involving mothers-to-be account for more than half of all New Zealand's foetal deaths due to maternal injury, new University of Otago research reveals. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-03-car-overlooked-killer-unborn-babies.html Health Tue, 12 Mar 2013 08:13:50 EST news282294823 Low birth weights are more prevalent among Brazilians with African ancestry and may be attributed to less use of prenatal care facilities and where those ethnic groups live, according to a new study. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-02-african-ancestry-babies-prenatal-brazil.html Health Tue, 26 Feb 2013 16:20:28 EST news281118022 (HealthDay)—Teen birth rates have dropped yet again, reaching a historic low, and the number of babies being born early or with a low birth weight has also declined, a new U.S. government report shows. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-02-teen-births-cdc.html Health Mon, 11 Feb 2013 10:23:29 EST news279799894 The risk of developing multiple sclerosis (MS) is highest in the month of April, and lowest in October, indicates an analysis of the available evidence, published online in the Journal of Neurology Neurosurgery and Psychiatry. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-11-pregnant-women-vitamin-d-supplements.html Neuroscience Wed, 14 Nov 2012 18:30:02 EST news272129714 Traditionally, age demographics in each of South Dakota's 66 counties would resemble a pyramid: wide at the bottom for people in their younger years and narrow at the top for the older population. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-10-population-strain-counties-quality-life.html Health Wed, 24 Oct 2012 09:10:01 EST news270285213 U.S. births fell for the fourth year in a row, the government reported Wednesday, with experts calling it more proof that the weak economy has continued to dampen enthusiasm for having children. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-10-baby-births-4th-year.html Health Wed, 03 Oct 2012 04:08:13 EST news268456081 The aging of the U.S. population will have broad economic consequences for the country, particularly for federal programs that support the elderly, and its long-term effects on all generations will be mediated by how—and how quickly—the nation responds, says a new congressionally mandated report from the National Research Council. The unprecedented demographic shift in which people over age 65 make up an increasingly large percentage of the population is not a temporary phenomenon associated with the aging of the baby boom generation, but a pervasive trend that is here to stay. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-09-population-aging-long-term-implications-economy.html Health Tue, 25 Sep 2012 15:11:49 EST news267804692 (Medical Xpress) -- If a woman were to consume in the form of food the amount of energy she uses, and were to follow the fertility patterns seen in other species, she would weigh as much as two elephants, and would continue to bear children up to the age of 70. This is because, generally, the more energy an organism uses, the bigger it is, the longer it lives, and the later it reproduces. But is this true of humans? After all, humans satisfy their appetite for energy through electrical outlets and other industrial sources. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-07-electric-meter-birth.html Medical research Wed, 04 Jul 2012 08:20:02 EST news260607934 The state funding of fertility treatment through public reimbursement policies has a direct influence on national birth rates. Lower levels of reimbursement are correlated with higher unmet needs for treatment, while more generous reimbursement policies increase access to treatment and may even make a measurable contribution to national birth rates. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-07-higher-reimbursement-positively-national-birth.html Other Mon, 02 Jul 2012 04:32:25 EST news260422336 (HealthDay) -- During assisted reproductive technology, increasing maternal age and number of cycles is linked to lower live-birth rates with the use of autologous oocytes, but not donor oocytes, according to a study published in the June 28 issue of the New England Journal of Medicine. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-06-art-live-birth-approach-natural-fecundity.html Obstetrics & gynaecology Thu, 28 Jun 2012 04:40:02 EST news260075950 States that prescribe abstinence-only sex education programs in public schools have significantly higher teenage pregnancy and birth rates than states with more comprehensive sex education programs, researchers from the University of Georgia have determined. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-11-abstinence-only-abstinent-behavior.html Health Wed, 30 Nov 2011 03:30:01 EST news241843806 The economy may well be the best form of birth control. U.S. births dropped for the third straight year - especially for young mothers - and experts think money worries are the reason. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-11-birth-young-women-tied-economy.html Health Thu, 17 Nov 2011 13:00:23 EST news240757204 (Medical Xpress) -- Fourteen states now mandate partial or comprehensive health insurance coverage of fertility treatment. These mandates have resulted in more women using assisted reproductive technologies (ART). http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-10-states-fertility-treatment-coverage-births.html Health Fri, 21 Oct 2011 08:06:18 EST news238403166 A new study recently published in the American Journal of Transplantation reveals that the ability to successfully carry a pregnancy after kidney transplantation is very high, with 73.5% live birth rates. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-10-successful-pregnancy-kidney-transplant.html Other Thu, 20 Oct 2011 11:23:05 EST news238328532 The post-war trend of falling birth rates has been reversed across Europe, according to a new study. However, despite an increasing emphasis on family and fertility policies in Europe, this recent development involves social, cultural and economic factors more than individual policy interventions. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-06-fertility-europe-.html Health Fri, 17 Jun 2011 11:57:54 EST news227530530 After a gradual decline from 1990 to 2004, a new study published online in Birth: Issues in Perinatal Care finds that United States births occurring at home increased by 20 percent between 2004 and 2008. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-05-home-births-percent.html Health Fri, 20 May 2011 05:25:40 EST news225087920 An analysis of over 400,000 IVF cycles in the UK has shown that doctors should aim to retrieve around 15 eggs from a woman's ovaries in a single cycle in order to have the best chance of achieving a live birth after assisted reproduction technology. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-05-eggs-birth-ivf.html Other Wed, 11 May 2011 03:48:13 EST news224304463 With new information available, authors of a Cochrane Systematic Review have revised their conclusions about the relative effectiveness of two different treatments used to help women become pregnant. They now conclude that giving women gonadotrophin-releasing hormone (GnRH) antagonists leads to similar live-birth rates compared with GnRH agonists. Previously they had concluded that women who used antagonists tended to have lower birth-rates than those using agonists. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-05-fertility-treatment-safer-drug-women.html Medications Wed, 11 May 2011 03:38:29 EST news224303777 Immigrants living less than five years in Canada are less likely than their Canadian-born counterparts to have premature babies regardless of where they live, according to a new study by St. Michael's Hospital. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-04-immigrants-premature-babies-years-canada.html Health Thu, 28 Apr 2011 12:00:05 EST news223209279