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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 ...

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

January 26, 2012
(American Physiological Society) Study in model that mimics human effects of multiparity (giving birth more than once) finds mouse moms who gave birth four times accrued significantly more fat vs. primiparous females (those giving birth once) of similar age. Multiparous moms also had more liver inflammation.

Estimating number of births without skilled birth attendants in South Asia, Sub-Saharan Africa

January 19, 2012
Noting that the "fifth Millennium Development Goal target for 90 percent of births in low- and middle-income countries to have a skilled birth attendant (SBA) by 2015 will not be met," researchers from University College London estimate "that there will be between 130 and 180 million non-SBA births in South ...

Twin births on the rise in the U.S.

January 6, 2012
Over the last three decades there has been a rise in the number of twins born in the U.S. Mostly this is the result of test-tube babies and women waiting to have children until their 30s, when the chances of twins increase. In 2009, 1 in every 30 babies born ...

Twin Births Rise Dramatically, Especially For Older Women

January 5, 2012
The CDC (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention) released a report showing that the rate of twin births has risen quite substantially since the 1980s, especially amongst older women. In 1980, one in every 53 births was a twin birth, while by 2009 the number had risen to one ...

U.S. Twin Births Soar: CDC

January 4, 2012
By Steven Reinberg HealthDay Reporter WEDNESDAY, Jan. 4 (HealthDay News) -- The birth rate for twins in the United States has jumped by 76 percent since 1980, government health officials reported Wednesday. Most of the increase appears linked to new fertility treatments ...

Study hopes to explain premature births and failed inductions of labour

December 22, 2011
New research hopes to explain premature births and failed inductions of labour. The study by academics at the University of Bristol suggests a new mechanism by which the level of myosin phosphorylation is regulated in the pregnant uterus.

New Study Shows Promise For Preventing Preterm Births

December 16, 2011
A new study co-authored by the University of Kentucky's Dr. John O'Brien found that applying vaginal progesterone to women who are at a high risk of preterm birth significantly decreased the odds of a premature delivery. The new study, published in the American Journal of Obstetrics and Gynecology, described a ...

New study shows promise for preventing preterm births

December 15, 2011
LEXINGTON, Ky. -- A new study co-authored by the University of Kentucky's Dr. John O'Brien found that applying vaginal progesterone to women who are at a high risk of preterm birth significantly decreased the odds of a premature delivery. The new study, published in the American ...

New study shows promise for preventing preterm births

December 15, 2011
(University of Kentucky) A new study co-authored by the University of Kentucky's Dr. John O'Brien found that applying vaginal progesterone to women who are at a high risk of preterm birth significantly decreased the odds of a premature delivery.