In order to provide resources and support across maternity hospitals around Victoria, the Bracks Government has proposed funding of $53 million.
Mr Bracks said the number of births had increased by 5 per cent over recent years and personified it as 'a...
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World Health Organization has postulated that nearly, 2.3 million children are suffering from HIV. Charlie Gilks of the WHO asserted that 90% of the kids have acquired the virus from their mother, a mode of infection which has been otherwise ignored by...
In a decision that's likely to dominate politics today -- perhaps more than the Virginia Tech shootings -- the US Supreme Court, in a 5-4 vote, has upheld the nationwide ban on the so-called 'partial-birth' abortion procedure.
Supreme Court of the...
Pregnancy is the most wonderful phase in a woman's life, however, it brings certain uneasiness along with it. It is estimated that approximately 50 to 90 percent of pregnant women experience discomfort from the nausea and vomiting associated with...
Recent research done by Armin Malter of Germany's Professional Association of Gynaecologists, has revealed that ingesting of vitamin D in pregnancy may prove as an antidote against the development of certain diseases, which a baby is prone to have later...
Dr. Steven Ory, of IVF Florida Reproductive Associates and an associate clinical professor at the University of Miami asserted that healthy life style alone is not enough to protect you from infertility although, people who have unhealthy style of living...
It's neither a joke nor hallucination on my part, when I say that there is a possibility of mothers producing babies without any contribution from their male counterparts. This is pure and correct news according to inputs from Daily Mail and BBC....
Researchers revealed that the chance of having a male baby drops by almost half if both parents smoke during early pregnancy, also smoking raises the chances of a miscarriage.
Researchers reportedly found that substances contained in cigarettes,...
As I have said before, the effects of pregnancy on asthma aren't predictable. It may be unaffected, worse or improved in pregnancy.
What is asthma?
Asthma is a disease of chronic inflammation of the airways. The inflammation makes breathing...
During pregnancy women who get into depression could have premature births, so to prevent this there have been many treatments given.
From Institute of Psychiatry in London, Veronica O'Keane and her colleagues have found out a link between...
During pregnancy, mothers-to-be may feel uneasy taking medications. However, if a pregnant woman has asthma, it is doubly important that her symptoms be well-managed to increase both her health and her baby's health. Uncontrolled asthma can be a threat...
Teens, whose mothers used to smoke during pregnancy and now themselves are smokers, may have higher chances of attention related problems.
A new study came up with this finding after studying the effects of nicotine exposure on the attention of the...
A British woman's longing for having a child of her own may never come true. The woman has been fighting a four-year legal battle to use frozen embryos fertilized by her former partner was disappointed again when the European Court of Human Rights ruled...
More and more women are becoming career minded and hence they are opting to surrogacy. Keen to become mothers and yet not willing to put their careers on hold, these career-driven women have given a new twist to the concept of outsourcing.
Dr Sunita...
Eating apples during pregnancy may protect children against developing asthma later in life; experts from the Netherlands and Scotland after tracking dietary intake by nearly 2,000 pregnant moms came up with this notion.
During the course of study,...
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