Health
Mississippi imposes 15-week abortion ban; nation's toughest
Mississippi's governor signed a law Monday banning most abortions after 15 weeks' gestations, the tightest restrictions in the nation.
Mar 19, 2018
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Page 11 - News tagged with fetuses
Cardiology
Multidisciplinary team completes first-ever EXIT to ventricular pacing procedure
Researchers at Children's Hospital Colorado (Children's Colorado) have completed the first-ever EXIT (Ex Utero Intrapartum Treatment) to ventricular pacing procedure. The patient, a 36-week fetus, who suffered from complete ...
Feb 16, 2018
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Obstetrics & gynaecology
Monitoring fetal movements helps detect musculoskeletal malformations
A team of researchers with Imperial College London and Great Ormond Street Hospital, both in the U.K., has found that monitoring fetal movements in pregnant women can help in detecting fetal musculoskeletal malformations. ...
Immunology
How Zika infection drives fetal demise
A powerful antiviral protein may act as a checkpoint for keeping or ending a pregnancy.
Jan 5, 2018
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Pediatrics
Alleviating complications of babies born smaller: Is a growth factor injection the answer?
Researchers have found a new potential treatment that may alleviate complications of babies born smaller than they should be, also called fetal growth restriction, which refers to poor growth of the fetus in the mother's ...
Dec 14, 2017
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Pediatrics
Obesity during pregnancy may lead directly to fetal overgrowth, study suggests
Obesity during pregnancy—independent of its health consequences such as diabetes—may account for the higher risk of giving birth to an atypically large infant, according to researchers at the National Institutes of Health. ...
Nov 13, 2017
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Obstetrics & gynaecology
Sleep on your side, not your back in late pregnancy
A pregnant mother sleeping on her back during late pregnancy may cause problems for the fetus, according to new research published in The Journal of Physiology. This is the first study to monitor unborn babies overnight and ...
Oct 12, 2017
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Medical research
In utero stem cell transplants may replace riskier childhood transplants for multiple conditions
UCSF Benioff Children's Hospitals in San Francisco and Oakland will pioneer stem cell transplants for a uniquely challenging patient population: second-trimester fetuses stricken with a potentially fatal disease.
Aug 31, 2017
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Health
Chile Congress OK's bill to legalize abortion in some cases
Chile's Congress has approved a bill that would legalize abortion in limited circumstances—ending the country's status as the last in South America to ban all abortions.
Aug 3, 2017
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Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
Scientists track Zika virus transmission in mice
National Institutes of Health (NIH) scientists have developed a mouse model to study Zika virus transmitted sexually from males to females, as well as vertically from a pregnant female to her fetus. They are using the model ...
Aug 3, 2017
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