Emerging viruses can adversely affect women's health, leading to an increase in both complications and deaths during pregnancy, childbirth and the puerperium. This is indicated by a population-based natural experiment on ...
Nov 29, 2021
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(HealthDay)—Among women with three or more good-quality blastocysts, conventional in-vitro fertilization (IVF) results in a cumulative live-birth rate that is noninferior to the rate obtained using embryo selection with ...
Nov 29, 2021
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A global target for the elimination of mother to child transmission of HIV globally was set in 2015. The ambitious target of the Joint United Nations Programme (UNAIDS) was to reduce new infant HIV infections by 75 percent ...
Nov 29, 2021
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Researchers at the University of Kent have identified crucial new evidence on the safety and efficacy of a controversial area of IVF treatment—preimplantation genetic testing for aneuploidy (PGT-A).
Nov 15, 2021
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Researchers who analyzed data for São Paulo state, Brazil, found the highest rates of newborn mortality from asphyxia in cities in the south, southeast and north of the state between 2004 and 2013. They cross-tabulated these ...
Nov 10, 2021
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(HealthDay)—Epidural analgesia during labor is not associated with immediate or longer-term adverse outcomes in offspring, according to a study published online Oct. 28 in JAMA Network Open.
Nov 4, 2021
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A nationwide study of over 1 million births in the English National Health Service (NHS) between 2015 and 2017, published in The Lancet, has found large inequalities in pregnancy outcomes between ethnic and socioeconomic ...
Nov 2, 2021
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(HealthDay)—The fetal mortality rate at 20 or more weeks of gestation in the United States was 5.70 per 1,000 live births or fetal deaths in 2019, down 3 percent from 2018, according to the Oct. 26 National Vital Statistics ...
Oct 27, 2021
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Chichi Okafor, a 30-year-old Nigerian woman, unexpectedly became pregnant again before her daughter turned six months old.
Sep 9, 2021
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18% of babies born in Brazil over seven years were born 'small' – either preterm, small for gestational age (SGA) or with low birthweight (LBW) – according to new research in The Lancet Regional Health—Americas.
Aug 24, 2021
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