Free Mobile Health Service to Provide Health Tips to Pregnant Women and New Moms
Medica partners with with the National Healthy Mothers, Healthy Babies Coalition (HMHB) to form text4baby – a new free mobile information service designed to promote maternal and child health.
View ArticleWhy do certain diseases go into remission during pregnancy?
University of Michigan and NIH scientists find a biological mechanism to explain the phenomenon
View ArticleBirth Complication Rates Vary Widely By Hospital
Women Who Give Birth at Top Hospitals Have 76 Percent Fewer Complications for C-Section, 51 Percent Fewer for Vaginal Birth
View ArticleStudents Design Early Labor Detector to Help Prevent Premature Births
Graduate students at Johns Hopkins University, with the help from their faculty advisor, have invented a new device that will allow doctors to detect and potentially prevent premature births.
View ArticlePostpartum Depression Seen in the Brain
Image study reveals that women with postpartum depression have anomalies in brain areas processing emotion.
View ArticleInfertility And Handling The Holidays
Here are some suggestions for taking care of yourself while getting through the season.
View ArticleA Mother's Milk
Preterm mothers’ milk contains less antioxidants than mothers completing their gestation
View ArticleNew Treatment Improves Quality of Life for Breast Cancer Survivors
For many, the battle against breast cancer takes a toll causes severe hormone deficiency. A new therapy may relieve this and other symptoms.
View ArticleMother's Pregnancy Diet Can Increase Child's Chances Of Obesity
Scientists have discovered that a mother's nutrition during pregnancy can strongly influence her child's risk ofobesity many years later.
View ArticleNew Research Shows Pregnant Women Could Benefit From Screening For Thyroid...
A screening program for thyroid peroxidase antibodies in pregnant women may help a large number that could go on to develop thyroid disease in the two years following delivery.
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