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Pregnancy after 50: Using egg, embryo donations to extend a woman’s reproductive life

Healthy postmenopausal women shouldn’t be discouraged from pursuing pregnancy using donor eggs or embryos, one of the world’s largest organizations of reproductive medicine says. (The Montreal G...

Reproductive Health Matters' supplement issue focuses on pregnancy decisions of HIV-positive women

Elsevier, a world-leading provider of scientific, technical and medical information products and services, announced today publication of Reproductive Health Matters' 2012 supplement issue "Pregnancy...

Women Whose First Pregnancy Was Ectopic Have Fewer Children, Increased Risk Of Another Ectopic Pregnancy

Women whose first pregnancy is ectopic are likely to have fewer children in the following 20-30 years than women whose first pregnancy ends in a delivery, miscarriage or abortion, according to results...

Elsevier's Reproductive Health Matters publishes 'Pregnancy decisions of women living with HIV'

(Elsevier) Elsevier, a world-leading provider of scientific, technical and medical information products and services, announced today publication of Reproductive Health Matters' 2012 supplement issue...

Pregnancy Following Bariatric Surgery Should Be Avoided For At Least 12 Months

Women should wait at least 12 months before trying for a baby following weight loss surgery and need further advice and information on reproductive issues, suggests a new evidence-based literature rev...

Women Whose First Pregnancy Was Ectopic Have Fewer Kids

Women who experience ectopic pregnancies with their first child are at an increased risk of having another ectopic pregnancy, as well as fewer children during the next 20 to 30 years, than women whose...

Big improvements in preconception health trends among women of reproductive age reported

A woman's health status before pregnancy is critical for the health and wellbeing of the fetus and mother-to-be. The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has set Healthy People 2020 n...

Dieting During Pregnancy Is Safe And Helpful

��A study in BMJ reports that the risk for serious complications, such as pre-eclampsia, diabetes and premature birth can be safely reduced even in overweight and obese pregnant women by f...

Occupational Hazards for Pregnant Nurses.

OVERVIEW: Depending on her working environment, specific immunities, and stage of pregnancy, a pregnant nurse may find it difficult to avoid teratogenic and fetotoxic exposures, as well as working con...

Female Farmworkers' Perceptions of Pesticide Exposure and Pregnancy Health.

Occupational pesticide exposure may be hazardous to pregnant farmworkers, yet few studies have focused on the health of female farmworkers distinct from their male counterparts or on the impact of agr...

Occupational reproductive health and pregnancy hazards confronting health care workers.

This article describes many of the potential workplace hazards confronting pregnant health care workers.

Occupational, environmental and lifestyle factors associated with spontaneous abortion.

Scientific evidence indicates extreme exposure sensitivity of embryos, fetuses, and infants to the persistent environmental/occupational chemicals directly and or indirectly as compared to the same ma...

Estimates of smoking before and during pregnancy, and smoking cessation during pregnancy: comparing two population-based data sources.

We compared three measures of maternal smoking status--prepregnancy, during pregnancy, and smoking cessation during pregnancy-between the Pregnancy Risk Assessment Monitoring System (PRAMS) questionna...