A new study reports that a low-cost healthy lifestyle program, including self-weighing weekly or monthly, by pregnant women with pre-existing overweight can prevent them from gaining too much weight during early pregnancy.
The researchers are presenting the results at The Endocrine Society’s 93rd Annual Meeting in Boston.
“Preventing excess weight gain in pregnancy is essential to the [...]
(Reuters Health) – Women who are very obese may be able to safely lose some weight during pregnancy — and possibly reduce their risk of needing a cesarean section, a new study suggests.
The findings, reported in the journal Obstetrics & Gynecology, add to evidence that at least some obese women may be able to shed [...]
WELLINGTON: An expectant mother’s diet during pregnancy can alter her baby’s DNA in the womb, increasing its risk of obesity, heart disease and diabetes in later life, an international study has found.
Researchers said the study provided the first scientific evidence linking pregnant women’s diet to childhood obesity, with major implications for public health.
“This a a [...]
More than 2.6 million pregnancies a year end in stillbirth, a tragedy which mostly hits women in poor countries and accounts for more deaths than AIDS and malaria combined, researchers said on Wednesday.
A series of studies published in the journal Lancet by researchers from the World Health Organization and some 50 organizations in 18 countries [...]
A study of older new mothers in Israel finds that 8 in 10 experienced health problems during their pregnancies, and nearly half of their babies were smaller than average.
First-time births over age 45 have more than tripled over the last decade in Israel. Though they still represent a small fraction of all births, the researchers [...]
Babies exposed to pesticides before birth may have significantly lower intelligence scores by age 7 than children who were not exposed, three separate studies published on Thursday said.
Results from the studies — two in New York and one in an agricultural community in California — suggest prenatal exposure to pesticides can have a lasting [...]
Children from homes where incense is regularly burned have a higher risk of developing asthma, according to a Taiwanese study suggesting that a particular genetic variation could also be involved.
Incense has been used for millennia in many cultures’ religious and spiritual ceremonies. In parts of Asia, people commonly burn incense in their homes — a [...]
UNIVERSITI Kebangsaan Malaysia is inviting parents to participate in a year-long research to determine the scope of services needed for the Education Ministry’s special education programme.
Headed by Dr Hasnah Toran, senior lecturer in Special Education at UKM’s Education Faculty, the research entails doing content analysis based on the questionnaires fielded to parents with special [...]
Large study finds trans fats linked to increased endometriosis risk and Omega-3-rich food linked to lower risk.
Women whose diets are rich in foods containing Omega-3 oils might be less likely to develop endometriosis, while those whose diets are heavily laden with trans fats might be more likely to develop the debilitating condition, new research [...]
Couples who conceive through certain types of infertility treatment may have a higher-than-normal likelihood of having a premature baby, a new study suggests
Danish researchers found that among more than 20,000 women who gave birth at their hospital between 1989 and 2006, those who had conceived through in-vitro fertilization (IVF) or intracytoplasmic sperm injection (ICSI) [...]
