http://medicalxpress.com/ en-us Medical Xpress internet news portal provides the latest news on Health and Medicine. In a nursery of a private maternity hospital in Athens, three mothers feed their newborns while another three babies nap nearby. The room has only a few cots, and yet a number lie empty. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-04-low-birth-greece-crisis.html Health Sun, 21 Apr 2013 07:20:02 EST news285745655 Rocket attacks in Sderot, Israel significantly increase the likelihood of miscarriages, according to a new study by Ben-Gurion University of the Negev (BGU) researchers. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-02-israel-rocket-miscarriage-likelihood.html Psychology & Psychiatry Fri, 22 Feb 2013 12:06:50 EST news280757200 (AP)—Four sisters who claimed in a lawsuit their breast cancer was caused by synthetic estrogen their mother took during pregnancy in the 1950s have reached a settlement with the drug company Eli Lilly and Co. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-01-apnewsbreak-settlement-pregnancy-drug.html Medications Wed, 09 Jan 2013 15:39:35 EST news276968360 (AP)—Testimony is set to begin in a federal lawsuit brought by four sisters who believe their breast cancer was caused by a drug their mother took during pregnancy in the 1950s. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-01-testimony-pregnancy-drug-case.html Medications Tue, 08 Jan 2013 04:33:44 EST news276842016 At first, the Melnick sisters thought it was just a cruel coincidence that two of them were diagnosed with breast cancer. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-01-trial-boston-pregnancy-drug.html Medications Thu, 03 Jan 2013 17:08:52 EST news276455326 (Medical Xpress)—Scientists have identified molecular signals that control whether embryos are accepted by the womb, and that appear to function abnormally in women who have suffered repeated miscarriages. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-01-scientists-molecular-women-prone-miscarriage.html Medical research Thu, 03 Jan 2013 10:15:24 EST news276430518 An Ottawa scientist has discovered a critical reason why women experience fertility problems as they get older. The breakthrough by Dr. Johné Liu, a senior scientist at the Ottawa Hospital Research Institute and professor at the University of Ottawa, also points to a simple solution that could increase the viability of egg cells for women in their late 30s and older—putrescine water. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-11-putrescine-fountain-youth-eggs.html Medical research Mon, 26 Nov 2012 13:15:52 EST news273158143 (HealthDay)—Women with cystic fibrosis (CF) can have successful pregnancies, according to research published online Nov. 12 in BJOG: An International Journal of Obstetrics and Gynaecology. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-11-successful-pregnancy-outcomes-women-cystic.html Obstetrics & gynaecology Wed, 21 Nov 2012 16:10:01 EST news272729084 (HealthDay)—A new study finds that women who have had one or more miscarriages are at increased risk for hardening of the arteries (atherosclerosis), which can lead to problems such as heart attack and stroke. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-11-miscarriages-tied-elevated-heart-conditions.html Cardiology Wed, 07 Nov 2012 07:10:01 EST news271488465 One of the largest studies to look at the effect of induced abortions on a subsequent first birth has found that women who have had three or more abortions have a higher risk of some adverse birth outcomes, such as delivering a baby prematurely and with a low birth weight. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-08-prematurity-birth-weight-babies-born.html Obstetrics & gynaecology Wed, 29 Aug 2012 19:00:10 EST news265479876 (Medical Xpress)—A team of British and Dutch researchers working out of Princess Anne Hospital in the UK have found evidence to suggest that the reason some women experience multiple miscarriages is because their wombs allow non-viable embryos to attach to the uterine wall long enough to pass a pregnancy test. The team says this new research, which they describe in their paper published in PLoS ONE, turns on its head conventional thinking that suggests women who miscarry multiple times are somehow rejecting embryos due to immunological issues. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-08-recurrent-miscarriages-due-super-fertility.html Obstetrics & gynaecology Tue, 28 Aug 2012 08:01:11 EST news265359652 Children with trisomy 13 or 18, who are for the most part severely disabled and have a very short life expectancy, and their families lead a life that is happy and rewarding overall, contrary to the usually gloomy predictions made by the medical community at the time of diagnosis, according to a study of parents who are members of support groups published today in Pediatrics. The study was conducted by Dr. Annie Janvier of the Sainte-Justine University Hospital Center and the University of Montreal with the special collaboration of the mother of a child who died from trisomy 13, Barbara Farlow, Eng, MSc as the second author. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-07-children-trisomy-families-happy.html Pediatrics Mon, 23 Jul 2012 04:22:32 EST news262235977 New research confirms that successful pregnancies are common for female liver transplant recipients. The study appearing in the June issue of Liver Transplantation, a journal published by Wiley-Blackwell on behalf of the American Association for the Study of Liver Diseases, found miscarriage risk was lower and the live birth rate higher among women following liver transplantation than in the general U.S. population. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-06-successful-pregnancies-women-liver-transplantation.html Other Thu, 07 Jun 2012 10:59:50 EST news258285583 Fertility problems, recurrent miscarriages, and pregnancy complications can occur when maternal immunological tolerance of the fetus is impaired. Gérard Chaouat and colleagues from Inserm et Assistance Publique et Université Paris Sud Orsay, Hopital Antoine Bèclère, Clamart Cedex, France (now in Hopital Saint Louis, Paris), trace the evolution of the science of reproductive immunology to show how the current understanding of maternal-fetal tolerance/dialogue has developed, and its implications for the treatment of infertility disorders. Their study appears in a topical issue of Advances in Neuroimmune Biology on maternal-fetal interactions. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-03-successful-pregnancy.html Immunology Wed, 21 Mar 2012 11:31:27 EST news251548279 Scientists at University College Dublin have discovered a new way of measuring the potential success rate of an embryo before it is transferred back into the womb during in vitro fertilisation (IVF). http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-02-successful-ivf-embryos-scientists.html Obstetrics & gynaecology Wed, 29 Feb 2012 10:10:14 EST news249732608 (AP) -- A Minnesota food company said Friday it is recalling more than a million hard-cooked eggs distributed to 34 states after testing revealed some may be contaminated with listeria. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-02-minnesota-food-company-recalls-eggs.html Health Sat, 04 Feb 2012 05:09:34 EST news247554560 (AP) -- Arline MacCormack first heard about DES from her mother when she was 17. Three decades later, MacCormack believes that the drug her mother took to prevent miscarriages caused her to develop breast cancer at age 44. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-01-boston-lawsuit-des-breast-cancer-link.html Cancer Sun, 08 Jan 2012 16:44:14 EST news245263394 Researchers at St. Michael's Hospital have identified a potential new cause for unexplained miscarriages in mice. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-11-unexplained-miscarriages.html Medical research Tue, 01 Nov 2011 11:19:12 EST news239365120 Dr Kaltum Adam, an honorary clinical research fellow at St Mary's Hospital in Manchester (UK), told the annual meeting of the European Society for Human Reproduction and Embryology that around 20 percent of all pregnancies were complicated by threatened miscarriage, and up to 20 percent of these would miscarry. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-07-accurately-outcome-pregnancies-threatening-miscarry.html Health Tue, 05 Jul 2011 10:10:31 EST news229079409 Women who suffer from unexplained recurrent miscarriage (RM) need to know how long it might take them to achieve a live birth if they are not to lose hope and give up trying for a baby. There is currently no evidence-based treatment for RM, and therefore accurate counseling on the chances of achieving a live birth is essential, a Dutch researcher told the annual conference of the European Society of Human Reproduction and Embryology today (Monday). http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-07-women-recurrent-miscarriage-good-chance.html Health Tue, 05 Jul 2011 10:06:48 EST news229079165 Washington State University researchers have confirmed a critical step in cell division that results in age-related miscarriages and birth defects, including Down syndrome. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-04-key-feature-age-related-miscarriages-birth.html Medical research Thu, 14 Apr 2011 13:33:32 EST news222006802