Neuroscience

Past pregnancies linked to reduced MS risk in women

Women who have multiple pregnancies may have a lower risk of developing multiple sclerosis (MS), according to research published in the March 7, 2012, online issue of Neurology, the medical journal of the American Academy ...

Obstetrics & gynaecology

IVF improving but fertility treatments keep multiple births high

Fertility technology in the United States has a huge influence on the frequency of twins, triplets, and other multiple births, according to new estimates published Dec. 5 in the New England Journal of Medicine. Dr. Eli Y. ...

Obstetrics & gynaecology

Fertility doctors aim to lower rate of twin births

U.S. doctors are reporting an epidemic—of twins. Nearly half of all babies born with advanced fertility help are multiple births, new federal numbers show.

Oncology & Cancer

US-born Latinas at great risk of having babies with retinoblastoma

In a large epidemiologic study, researchers at UCLA's Jonsson Cancer Center found that the children of U.S.-born Latina women are at higher risk of having retinoblastoma, a malignant tumor of the retina which typically occurs ...

Obstetrics & gynaecology

Fertility treatment babies set record in US

A new report finds that one or two of every 100 babies born in the United States now are conceived with advanced fertility help.

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