Search Results for "Cultural Beliefs About Fetal Abnormality"
Original Source: Attitudes of pregnant women regarding termination of pregnancy for fetal abnormality.
OBJECTIVE: To study the attitudes of pregnant women towards termination of pregnancy for fetal abnormality. MATERIALS AND METHODS: A questionnaire was completed by all pregnant women attending routine ultrasound scan. They were asked whether they would opt for termination of the pregnancy in case the fetus was diagnosed with one of the following abnormalities: lethal anomaly, anomaly causing developmental delay, anomaly causing physical handicap, anomaly causing disfigurement and severe anomaly diagnosed af...
Matching Channels
Fetal genetic diagnostic tests
Bulimia is an illness characterized by the cycle of binging on food, guilty feelings and resultant purging (vomiting or laxative abuse) to counteract the previous binge. It is much more common in yo...
Matching News
Risk Of Choanal Atresia, A Rare Congenital Abnormality, Likely Increased By Exposure To Herbicide
A common herbicide used in the United States may be linked to an increased risk of a congenital abnormality of the nasal cavity known as choanal atresia, say researchers at Baylor College of Medicine...
Japan Ob-Gyn Doctors Draft Guidelines For Abnormality Diagnostics
Japan's ob-gyn physician group has published a draft of new guidelines for prenatal diagnoses to detect fetal abnormalities through blood tests.
Fetal Monitoring Available for Obstetricians on the Go
A new fetal monitor provides clinicians access to maternal and fetal surveillance information via an iPad or iPhone interface,...
Fetal growth restriction affected by formation of maternal gene
A Japanese study has found that maternal rather than fetal factors are associated with fetal growth restriction. A comparison of maternal and fetal angiotensin-converting enzyme genotypes with the siz...
Hartsdale, NY - Montefiore Medical Center Launches New Fetal Diagnostic Unit
Montefiore Medical Center opened a new facility for fetal diagnosis, genetics and therapy in Hartsdale. The new site will offer advanced prenatal diagnostic and therapeutic care in the New York tri-st...
Ariosa moves to bring fetal trisomy assay to U.K.
Ariosa Diagnostics has agreed to allow The Fetal Medicine Centre to market its noninvasive test for detecting fetal trisomies -More-
First example of a heritable abnormality affecting semantic cognition found
Four generations of a single family have been found to possess an abnormality within a specific brain region which appears to affect their ability to recall verbal material, a new study by researchers...
Cultural competency: How to communicate effectively across cultural boundaries
Pharmacists need to gain insight into cultural competency to better serve the increasing racial and ethnic populations in the United States.
Matching PubMed Articles
Beliefs about the effects of social sharing of emotion in alexithymia.
Background: Emotional events are followed by recurrent talking about the event (Social Sharing of Emotion, SSE). Several factors that can account for variations in beliefs about SSE were examined: ale...
Optometrists' perspectives on cross-cultural encounters in clinical practice: a pilot study.
Background: There is growing awareness that cultural background influences health beliefs and practices and can impact on the patient-practitioner encounter. However, in relation to optometry there...
Attitudes of pregnant women regarding termination of pregnancy for fetal abnormality.
OBJECTIVE: To study the attitudes of pregnant women towards termination of pregnancy for fetal abnormality. MATERIALS AND METHODS: A questionnaire was completed by all pregnant women attending routine...
Cultural Beliefs, Partner Characteristics, Communication, and Sexual Risk Among Latino MSM.
This study examined factors associated with communication about condom use and unprotected anal intercourse (UAI) in a U.S. sample of immigrant Latino MSM (N = 356), with a focus on culturally based b...
With introduction of social niche effects into a model of cultural change, the frequency of a practice cannot predict the frequency of its underlying belief. The combination of a general model with em...
