News tagged with pregnancy loss


After pregnancy loss, Internet forums help women understand they are not alone

Nearly one in six pregnancies end in miscarriage or stillbirth, but parents' losses are frequently minimized or not acknowledged by friends, family or the community.

Health created Oct 19, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Researchers discover faulty molecular switch that cause infertility, miscarriage

Scientists have discovered an enzyme that acts as a 'fertility switch', in a study published in Nature Medicine today. High levels of the protein are associated with infertility, while low levels make a woman more likely ...

Medical research created Oct 16, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Researchers discover new enzyme function for anemia

Researchers at St. Michael's Hospital have discovered a new function for an enzyme that may protect against organ injury and death from anemia.

Medical research created Oct 03, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Tests that use DNA from mother's blood to determine sex of fetus often effective

As a noninvasive method of determining the sex of a fetus, tests using cell-free fetal DNA obtained from the mother's blood after 7 weeks gestation performed well, while urine-based tests appear to be unreliable, according ...

Health created Aug 09, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Could ovarian stimulation cause an increase in chromosome copy number abnormalities?

Ovarian stimulation undertaken by women of advanced maternal age receiving fertility treatment may be disrupting the normal pattern of meiosis -- a critical process of chromosome duplication followed by two specialized cell ...

Other created Jul 05, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Birth rates after ICSI increase in first trimester pregnancy loss after the age of 37

Women undergoing fertility treatment are more likely to give birth to a live baby after ICSI (intracytoplasmic sperm injection) if they are younger than 38 and 11 or more eggs have been retrieved from their ovaries in one ...

Medical research created Jul 05, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Pregnacy virus warning

A virus that causes hearing loss and intellectual disabilities in infants is being underdiagnosed, according to UNSW researchers, who are calling for routine screening for all pregnant women and newborns.

Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes created Jun 21, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Weight gain between first and second pregnancies increases woman's gestational diabetes risk

Compared with women whose weight remained stable, body mass index gains between the first and second pregnancy were associated with an increased risk of gestational diabetes mellitus in the second pregnancy. But losing weight ...

Health created May 23, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0


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