A 70-year-old woman in Uganda has given birth to twins after receiving fertility treatment, making her one of the world's oldest new mothers.
Dec 1, 2023
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Giving steroids to women pregnant with twins at risk of premature delivery reduces the chance of infant death and respiratory distress syndrome, according to a new review of existing studies by the University of Aberdeen.
Jul 27, 2022
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Are women who have twins more fertile? While previous studies concluded they are, a detailed analysis of more than 100,000 births from pre-industrial Europe by an international team of scientists shows they are not. The results ...
May 24, 2022
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Mothers with partners who also identified as mothers had substantially higher rates of adverse pregnancy and birth outcomes, including life-threatening complications such as postpartum hemorrhage, than mothers with partners ...
Apr 6, 2022
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The proportion of twins born by caesarean delivery in Victoria increased threefold, from 24% to 71% of all twin births, during 1983–2015, despite high-level evidence that routine caesarean delivery of twins does not benefit ...
Dec 2, 2019
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An old adage urges pregnant women to "eat for two." So with twins, is it "eat for three?" While that is likely bad advice, when it comes to twin pregnancies, clinicians don't have firm guidelines for ideal weight gain due ...
Oct 10, 2019
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Fewer U.S. families are seeing double, according to a government report that finds a drop in new twins.
Oct 3, 2019
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Key immune system cells produced before birth may survive well into adulthood, according to new research published in PLOS Computational Biology.
Jul 6, 2017
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One in five children born with a twin sibling in sub-Saharan Africa dies before the age of five—three times the rate among singletons, said a study Thursday.
Jun 1, 2017
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High energy sound waves could treat a potentially deadly complication that affects some twin pregnancies, says new research.
Jul 13, 2016
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