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AHA special issue focuses on health disparities among racial, ethnic communities

Poverty and Black race were associated with higher rates of lower leg amputation among people with peripheral artery disease who live in metropolitan areas, according to new research published today in a special issue of the Journal of the American Heart Association, an open access journal of the American Heart Association.

25 Aug 2021

Unconventional T cell and inflammation levels in COVID-19 during pregnancy

A new study published on the medRxiv* preprint server has focused on investigating SARS-CoV-2 immune responses in pregnant women

25 Aug 2021

New Binghamton research explores how brain folds form in fetuses

Many mysteries continue to surround the human brain, but among the most important are how it forms and how those early weeks affect the rest of a person's life.

25 Aug 2021

COVID-19 with pre-eclampsia and acute fatty liver of pregnancy

A new study reports a case of pre-eclampsia complicated by the acute fatty liver of pregnancy (AFLP).

24 Aug 2021

Online, video-based exercise program can help postpartum women with diastasis rectus abdominis

A study at Hospital for Special Surgery (HSS) finds that an online, video-based core exercise program can help with a condition many women experience after childbirth.

24 Aug 2021

Maternal obesity may raise the risk of bowel cancer in adult offspring

An obese mum-to-be may be raising the risk of bowel cancer in her adult children, suggests research of more than 18,000 mother and child pairs, published online in the journal Gut.

24 Aug 2021

Study discovers lagging chromosomes as one of the major causes of infertility

Why do women over 35 have more difficulty getting pregnant? After discovering one of the causes of age-related female infertility, researchers at the University of Montreal Hospital Research Centre suggest that it will be possible in the future to improve the quality of the eggs of older patients by intervening on the cell cycle level.

23 Aug 2021

Exposure to wildfire smoke during pregnancy raises risk for preterm birth

Exposure to wildfire smoke during pregnancy increases the risk that a baby will be born too early, a new Stanford University study suggests.

23 Aug 2021

Study finds unacceptably alarming rise in gestational diabetes among U.S. women

The rate of gestational diabetes has shot up 30 percent in young U.S. women over the past decade and more than doubled in U.S. women who identify as Asian-Indian compared with non-Hispanic White women, reports a new Northwestern Medicine study published in JAMA.

23 Aug 2021

Drinking, smoking throughout the first trimester of pregnancy associated with higher stillbirth risk

Drinking alcohol and smoking tobacco cigarettes throughout the first trimester of pregnancy is associated with nearly three times the risk of late stillbirth (at 28 or more weeks), compared to women who neither drink or smoke during pregnancy or quit both before the end of the first trimester, according to a study funded by the National Institutes of Health.

23 Aug 2021

Analysis of seadragon genome offers new insights into its phenotype and sex-determination locus

A study by Prof. LIN Qiang from the South China Sea Institute of Oceanology (SCSIO) of the Chinese Academy of Sciences and his collaborators from Singapore and Germany lifts the veil on seadragons' mysterious looks, and sheds light on a sex-determination locus shared by seadragons and alligator pipefish, both members of the Syngnathidae family.

22 Aug 2021

Researchers recommend urgent adaptation plans to mitigate heat-related deaths and illnesses

Extreme heat is an increasingly common occurrence worldwide, with heat-related deaths and illnesses also expected to rise.

20 Aug 2021

Frequent adolescent cannabis use may carry intergenerational risks, study finds

Teenagers who use cannabis frequently may be more likely to have children born preterm, when they become parents up to twenty years later, finds a new University of Bristol-led study.

19 Aug 2021

Allopregnanolone exerts persistent antidepressant effects by altering brain states

New research led by neuroscientists at Tufts University School of Medicine suggests the prolonged antidepressant effects of allopregnanolone, a neuroactive steroid used therapeutically to treat postpartum depression, may involve the ability of the compound to modify communication in an area of the brain important for mood and emotion regulation.

18 Aug 2021

Fetal membranes can heal after injury, study shows

Scientists from Queen Mary University of London and UCL have shown that fetal membranes are able to heal after injury in a new study.

18 Aug 2021

Pregnant and lactating women did not experience increased reactions after COVID-19 vaccination

A survey of more than 17,000 pregnant and lactating individuals who received the COVID-19 vaccine showed that the individuals did not experience symptoms any more severe than their non-pregnant counterparts.

17 Aug 2021

‘Tainted’ blood: Covid skeptics request blood transfusions from unvaccinated donors

The nation's roiling tensions over vaccination against covid-19 have spilled into an unexpected arena: lifesaving blood transfusions.

17 Aug 2021

Quick, inexpensive leptospirosis test strip kit to help lower death and disability risk

The Faculty of Medicine, Chulalongkorn University has brought out a quick, inexpensive, and easy-to-use leptospirosis test strip kit to help lower the risk of disability from internal organ failure and death, with the hopes of distributing them to community hospitals across the country.

14 Aug 2021

Metabolic changes take an unexpected path through the human life course

An international research team studying data from thousands of people worldwide has shown that people's metabolisms peak earlier and decline later in life than previously thought.

13 Aug 2021

Study provides important insights into human metabolism

Metabolism and total energy expenditure change throughout our lives, and now a new study documents a series of distinct, related changes in unprecedented detail.

13 Aug 2021

Pregnancy News and Research

Latest Pregnancy News and Research

AHA special issue focuses on health disparities among racial, ethnic communities

Unconventional T cell and inflammation levels in COVID-19 during pregnancy

New Binghamton research explores how brain folds form in fetuses

COVID-19 with pre-eclampsia and acute fatty liver of pregnancy

Online, video-based exercise program can help postpartum women with diastasis rectus abdominis

Maternal obesity may raise the risk of bowel cancer in adult offspring

Study discovers lagging chromosomes as one of the major causes of infertility

Exposure to wildfire smoke during pregnancy raises risk for preterm birth

Study finds unacceptably alarming rise in gestational diabetes among U.S. women

Drinking, smoking throughout the first trimester of pregnancy associated with higher stillbirth risk

Analysis of seadragon genome offers new insights into its phenotype and sex-determination locus

Researchers recommend urgent adaptation plans to mitigate heat-related deaths and illnesses

Frequent adolescent cannabis use may carry intergenerational risks, study finds

Allopregnanolone exerts persistent antidepressant effects by altering brain states

Fetal membranes can heal after injury, study shows

Pregnant and lactating women did not experience increased reactions after COVID-19 vaccination

‘Tainted’ blood: Covid skeptics request blood transfusions from unvaccinated donors

Quick, inexpensive leptospirosis test strip kit to help lower death and disability risk

Metabolic changes take an unexpected path through the human life course

Study provides important insights into human metabolism

Small solutions for big problems in drug discovery and delivery

Professor Nancy Ip: Pioneering New Paths in Neurodegenerative Therapy

Utilizing process Raman in optimizing cultivated meat production

Pregnancy News and Research

Latest Pregnancy News and Research

Small solutions for big problems in drug discovery and delivery

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