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Antiretroviral Drugs for Treating Pregnant Women and Preventing HIV Infection in Infants

Antiretroviral Drugs for Treating Pregnant Women and Preventing HIV Infection in Infants

Keeping in mind the escalating incidence of HIV transmission, the WHO has recommended certain important steps for preventing its transmission via mother-to-child and ensuring their surviva...

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Maternal Thyroid Auto-antibodies Responsible for Miscarriages and Pre-term Delivery

Maternal Thyroid Auto-antibodies Responsible for Miscarriages and Pre-term Delivery

A recent meta-analysis indicated strong association between thyroid auto-antibodies, and miscarriage and pre-term birth. Miscarriage (the loss of a pregnancy before 24 weeks of gestation) ...

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Hysterectomy: A Cost Effective Option in Menorrhagea as Compared to Conservative Treatments

Hysterectomy: A Cost Effective Option in Menorrhagea as Compared to Conservative Treatments

Dr. Tracy Roberts, Professor of Health Economics at University of Birmingham and colleagues conducted a cost effectiveness analysis on four hypothetical cohorts of women with heavy menstrual...

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Watch That Headache If You Are Pregnant

Watch That Headache If You Are Pregnant

Recently a study was conducted in Peru, aiming to find the correlation and risk in pregnancy complications (such as placental abruption) associated with maternal headaches. Placental...

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Adverse Events With Medical Abortion Similar in Adolescent and Adult Females

Adverse Events With Medical Abortion Similar in Adolescent and Adult Females

Medical abortion using mifepristone alone or with prostaglandins is becoming a common practice with adult females and adolescent girls. With an increase in the number of teenage pregna...

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Drospirenone in Oral Contraceptives Increases Risk of Venous Thromboembolism

Drospirenone in Oral Contraceptives Increases Risk of Venous Thromboembolism

In a recent case-control analysis published in British Journal of Medicine , women who use oral contraceptives containing the newer progesterone Drospirenone are at a higher risk for ve...

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Paracetamol in Pregnancy and Childhood Asthma: Is The Link For Real?

Paracetamol in Pregnancy and Childhood Asthma: Is The Link For Real?

An interesting meta-analysis published in the journal of Clinical & Experimental Allergy reports that children whose mothers used paracetamol (acetaminophen) during pregnancy may have a ...

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"Alcohol and Pregnancy" - A Heady Cocktail

How much alcohol is safe during pregnancy has been a topic of research and debate among the medical scientists and there have been conflicting reports on this issue . A major study in Ire...

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Abortion Does Not Increase Risk of Mental Problems

Abortion Does Not Increase Risk of Mental Problems

Concern has been expressed regarding potential harm to women’s mental health in association with induced abortion but there is no clear evidence whether induced abortion is associated wit...

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More to the Hormones Than Meets the Eye

More to the Hormones Than Meets the Eye

Women are attractive and more so during the peak fertile stage of the month. During this period, she looks appealing to men and is often rated attractive by them. In a study con...

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Vaccination During Pregnancy

Vaccination During Pregnancy

Vaccination strengthens an individual’s immune system to help prevent morbidity and mortality from infectious diseases. Vaccines can also prevent the spread of communicable diseases. Ideal...

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Thyroid Hormone Level in Mothers Linked With Presentation of Babies During Deliveries

Thyroid Hormone Level in Mothers Linked With Presentation of Babies During Deliveries

An interesting link seems to exist between the p resentation of Babies body during deliveries and the level of  maternal thyroid hormone. A process by which a baby in the breech position...

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International Women’s Day 2011: Women and Wellness

International Women’s Day 2011: Women and Wellness

International Women’s Day 2011 is a great opportunity for people across countries and cultures to pool in ideas and visions and chalk out strategies for a greater involvement of women in a...

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Iniparib Plus Chemotherapy - More Effective in Treating Triple-Negative Breast Cancer

Iniparib Plus Chemotherapy - More Effective in Treating Triple-Negative Breast Cancer

Triple-negative breast cancer is an aggressive subtype of breast cancer. It is estrogen-receptor (ER)–negative, progesterone-receptor (PR)–negative and does not over express human epider...

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Wake-up Call on Breast Cancer in India

Wake-up Call on Breast Cancer in India

“Come What May, I Will Be Happy And Gay”: A Cancer Patient’s Story Of Will And Wit Usually the mood in the radiation room of All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS) is tranquil...

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