Pre-term births are a leading cause of neonatal morbidity and mortality in the U.S., where they occur in about 12% to 13% of all pregnancies and about 17% to 18% of pregnancies among African-American women. Family history is a known risk factor of pre-term birth, suggesting that genetics might affect the likelihood of pre-term birth. [...]
Entries from February 2009
February 28, 2009
Study Examines Genetic Factors Associated With Spontaneous Pre-Term Births Among African-Americans
February 23, 2009
Your Menstrual Cycle And Insulin : Watch For Changes
A woman’s monthly hormone cycle can change the amount of insulin she needs. Don’t be surprised — or caught without as much medicine as your body requires.
Many women find they need more insulin in the days just before they start to menstruate, and that their insulin needs go back to normal when their periods begin. [...]
February 17, 2009
Reproducing Makes You Famous
People like Nadya Suleman, the IVF junkie mother of 14, and Alfie Patten,the 13-year-old father from England, are getting famous just for reproducing. It’s a pretty gross trend. Probably the most troubling thing of all is how greedily we’ve slopped all this stuff up. But after making celebrity baby covers the biggest sellers for [...]
February 11, 2009
Ethical Issues Related to Birth of IVF Octuplets : Not a Cause for Celebration, Doctors Warn
Two newspapers recently published two opinion pieces examining the ethical issues surrounding the recent birth of octuplets to a California woman, Nadya Suleman, who reportedly underwent fertility treatments. Summaries appear below.
~ Arthur Caplan, Philadelphia Inquirer: “Something has gone terribly wrong when a 33-year-old single woman — who has no home of her own, no job [...]
February 11, 2009
First the Biopsy, then The Baby
A common medical procedure may be the key to helping couples who’ve had no luck with artificial insemination and IVF. Could a common uterine biopsy make pregnancy “stick” for women having trouble conceiving? A small but growing number of couples are embracing an unusual use of biopsies during infertility treatments in the belief that they [...]
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