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Could Home Births And Midwifery Units Save The NHS A Lot Of Money?, UK

April 23, 2012
According to a study published in BMJ (British Medical Journal),giving birth at home or in a midwifery unit may be a safer and more cost effective option for women with low-risk pregnancies who already have children. Researchers from the University of Oxford examined 64,000 births in England between 2008 ...

27% Of All Births To Unmarried Couples, USA

April 12, 2012
Centres for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) released data from the Natality Data File, National Vital Statistics System showing teen childbearing hitting the lowest levels on record. Obviously, the public information campaign to use condoms is working. At the same time, increasing numbers of unmarried couples are having babies, giving ...

U.S. Teen Births Hit Record Low

April 10, 2012
By Steven Reinberg HealthDay Reporter TUESDAY, April 10 (HealthDay News) -- The number of American teens giving birth has dropped to an all-time low, federal health officials reported Tuesday. "There has been a phenomenal drop in the last two years," said report ...

Wellesley study shows income inequality a key factor in high US teen births

April 5, 2012
WELLESLEY, Mass.New research reveals the surprising economics behind the high U.S. teen birth rates, and why Texas teens are giving birth at triple the rate of Massachusetts youth: high income inequality and low opportunity cost. For the first time, Wellesley College economist Phillip B. Levine and ...

Wellesley study shows income inequality a key factor in high US teen births

April 5, 2012
(Wellesley College) New research reveals the surprising economics behind the high U.S. teen birth rates, and why Texas teens are giving birth at triple the rate of Massachusetts youth: high income inequality and low opportunity cost.

New devices could hold key to predicting premature births

February 16, 2012
Scientists and doctors in Sheffield are developing two novel devices that they say could lead to the improved prediction of premature births.

New devices could hold key to predicting premature births

February 13, 2012
Scientists and doctors from the University of Sheffield are developing two novel devices that could lead to the improved prediction of premature births.

Risk of obstetric intervention lower for women who intended home births

February 13, 2012
In a study to be presented today at the Society for Maternal-Fetal Medicine's annual meeting, The Pregnancy Meeting -, in Dallas, Texas, researchers will report findings that indicate that the risk of obstetric intervention is lower for women who deliver or intend to deliver outside of hospitals, but there are ...

New devices could hold key to predicting premature births

February 13, 2012
(University of Sheffield) Scientists and doctors from the University of Sheffield are developing two novel devices that could lead to the improved prediction of premature births.Two major trials, together worth nearly a million pounds in funding, are being set up at the University of Sheffield and Sheffield Teaching Hospitals NHS ...

Rise In Home Births In US

January 27, 2012
After falling for 14 years, the percentage of home births in the US from 2004 to 2009 rose by 29% to the highest level since data collection on this began in 1989. However, although this looks like a big surge, the overall proportion of American women giving ...

Multiple births lead to weight gain and other problems for mouse moms and male offspring

January 27, 2012
Women have long bemoaned the fact that as they have more children, their weight gain from pregnancy becomes more difficult to lose. A new study using a mouse model that mimics the human effects of multiparity (giving birth more than once) has found that mouse moms who gave birth four ...

Multiple births lead to weight gain and other problems for mouse moms and male offspring

January 26, 2012
Bethesda, Md. -- Women have long bemoaned the fact that as they have more children, their weight gain from pregnancy becomes more difficult to lose. A new study using a mouse model that mimics the human effects of multiparity (giving birth more than once) has found that mouse moms who ...