30-year-old Disaster Still Affecting Mothers And Newborns A report published in the open-access journal PLoS
Medicine finds that maternal exposure to dangerous toxins damages thyroid function of babies. Andrea Baccarelli (University of Milan) and colleagues from the United States and Italy studied a 1976 accident at a chemical factory in Seveso, Italy that exposed several residents of the town to the most dangerous type of dioxin.
Source: www.medicalnewstoday.comMothers From Affluent Neighborhoods Near Highways Increase Odds Of Low Weight Babies By 81 Percent Living near city expressways is associated with adverse birth effects on expectant mothers and their newborns, according to a novel study with global implications. In the August edition of the Journal of Epidemiology and Community
Health, scientists from the Universite de Montreal and the University of South Australia reveal that women living closest to expressways are more vulnerable to highway pollution - especially affluent mothers.
Source: www.medicalnewstoday.comGene May Put Women With Migraine At Increased Risk Of Heart Disease And Stroke Women who experience migraine with aura appear to be at an increased risk of heart disease and stroke if they have a certain gene, according to a study published in the July 30, 2008, online issue of Neurology�, the medical journal of the American Academy of Neurology. For the study, researchers followed 25,001 Caucasian women for the occurrence of cardiovascular disease, including heart attacks and ischemic stroke.
Source: www.medicalnewstoday.comPotential HHS Rule Would Override Minn. Law Requiring Hospitals To Provide EC, Advocates Say On Tuesday, Minnesota legislators and women's
health advocates warned that a proposed regulation being developed by the Bush administration -- a regulation that allegedly seeks t
Source: www.medicalnewstoday.comRecovery From Bed Rest During Pregnancy After weeks of bed rest during pregnancy, new mothers need to rebuild muscles and strengthen their stamina. Now a group of women will test new interventions in aiding that recovery during a pilot study at Case Western Reserve University's Frances Payne Bolton School of Nursing. "Putting people in bed is not a benign kind of thing," says Judith Maloni, a professor of nursing at the Bolton School.
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