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(Medical Xpress)—Dads who find out the sex of their unborn child and give him or her a name may find it easier to connect emotionally with their baby, a study conducted at the University of Birmingham has found. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-04-gender-unborn-baby-fathers-bond.html Psychology & Psychiatry Wed, 24 Apr 2013 07:30:01 EST news286005882 In a study to be presented on February 15 at the Society for Maternal-Fetal Medicine's annual meeting, The Pregnancy Meeting, in San Francisco, California, researchers from Tufts Medical Center will present findings showing the effects of maternal obesity on a fetus, specifically in the development of the brain. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-02-abnormal-brain-fetuses-obese-women.html Obstetrics & gynaecology Mon, 11 Feb 2013 11:20:01 EST news279801596 A woman's exposure to high pollen levels in late pregnancy increases the risk of early asthma in the child, according to a group of researchers at Sweden's Umeå University in a recent study. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-01-pollen-exposure-pregnancy-affects-child.html Inflammatory disorders Mon, 07 Jan 2013 08:57:33 EST news276771433 An ultra-low cost scanner that can be plugged into any computer or laptop to reveal vital information about the unborn child has been developed by engineers at Newcastle University, UK. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-09-ultrasound-imaging-world.html Medical research Thu, 13 Sep 2012 19:00:01 EST news266764767 Preeclampsia is one of the most dangerous conditions for the expectant mother and the unborn child and is characterized by elevated blood pressure and protein in the urine in the last trimester of pregnancy. The cause for this life-threatening disease has long remained elusive. Recently however, Dr. Ananth Karumanchi (Associate Professor of Medicine, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center & Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, USA) has identified a new molecular pathway that leads to preeclampsia in humans and thus creating new avenues for the development of a therapy, he reported at the 1st ECRC "Franz-Volhard" Symposium on September 8, 2012 at the Max Delbrück Center for Molecular Medicine (MDC) Berlin-Buch. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-09-molecular-preeclampsia.html Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes Mon, 10 Sep 2012 09:21:35 EST news266487685 Marijuana is up to 20 times more potent than it was 40 years ago and most pregnant women who use the drug are totally unaware that it could harm their unborn child before they even know they are pregnant. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-08-high-potency-synthetic-marijuana-pose.html Addiction Wed, 15 Aug 2012 11:03:39 EST news264247413 Treating pregnant women with selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors (SSRIs) appears to be associated with fewer depressive symptoms, reduced fetal head growth and a higher risk for preterm birth, but not with a delay in fetal body growth, according to a report published Online First by Archives of General Psychiatry, one of the JAMA/Archives journals. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-03-maternal-ssris-depressive-symptoms-fetal.html Psychology & Psychiatry Mon, 05 Mar 2012 16:00:30 EST news250167446 The British government on Thursday vowed to investigate newspaper reports that doctors illegally approved abortions that were requested due to the sex of the unborn child. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-02-britain-probes-sex-selective-abortion.html Obstetrics & gynaecology Thu, 23 Feb 2012 05:00:01 EST news249195044 (Medical Xpress) -- Many pregnant women who suffer from asthma are putting their unborn child's health at risk by failing to use the right medication, according to a University of Adelaide researcher. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-02-pregnant-asthmatic-women-health.html Health Fri, 17 Feb 2012 09:00:03 EST news248690269 Breast cancer in pregnant women is as common as in non-pregnant women of the same age, with no evidence to suggest pregnancy increases the risk of such cancer. In the majority of cases, pregnant women can have their breast cancer treated with surgery or chemotherapy or both, and the aim in most cases should be a normal length pregnancy to avoid the harm to the unborn child that can be caused by premature birth. Termination of the pregnancy does not improve the outcome for the mother. The issues around this delicate subject are discussed in the second paper in The Lancet Series on cancer in pregnancy, written by Dr Frédéric Amant, Multidisciplinary Breast Cancer Center, Leuven Cancer Institute, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium, and colleagues. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-02-surgery-chemotherapy-pregnant-women-breast.html Surgery Thu, 09 Feb 2012 18:30:03 EST news248008196 If you are pregnant, here's another reason to work out: you will reduce the chances of your new baby developing neurodegenerative diseases, such as Alzheimer's, later in life. A new research report published online in The FASEB Journal shows that mice bred to develop a neurodegenerative disease roughly equivalent to Alzheimer's disease showed fewer signs of the disease and greater brain plasticity later in life when their mothers exercised regularly than those whose mothers did not exercise. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-09-pregnant-women-offspring-long-term-neurodegenerative.html Health Mon, 26 Sep 2011 09:50:45 EST news236249413