Research and Drugs

5+ hour, 10+ min ago   (130+ words) Women with vulvar lichen sclerosus (VLS) had a higher risk for second-degree tears and obstetric anal sphincter injuries during vaginal delivery than those without the condition. "[The] study emphasizes the importance of adequate and continuous treatment of VLS both before…...

1+ hour, 40+ min ago   (473+ words) PULLMAN, Wash. — Infants whose mothers smoked cannabis while breastfeeding showed the presence of volatile organic compounds in their urine, a recent study shows. The study, conducted at Washington State University and published in the International Journal of Environmental Research and…...

5+ hour, 16+ min ago   (500+ words) Parents often wait anxiously for the “right week” to deliver, weighing advice from doctors and their own instincts. For decades, gestational age, whether a baby arrives at 37 weeks or closer to 41, has been the focus of those conversations. But a…...

1+ mon, 1+ week ago   (593+ words) The Drug and Food Control Authority has ordered the immediate recall of Duphaston and Navidoxine from the South Sudanese market over concerns about their quality, possible falsification and patient safety. Duphaston is a hormone medication used to treat several female…...

3+ hour, 9+ min ago   (326+ words) Seven molecules in human milk could help explain how a mother’s nutrition connects with her baby’s growth, offering a window into the biology of milk production. Human milk contains thousands of nutrients, metabolites, proteins, immune factors, and other molecules, yet…...

5+ hour, 14+ min ago   (300+ words) Could hidden antibodies in a pregnant woman's blood be responsible for triggering premature labour? A new study suggests that certain immune antibodies may contribute to early labour, potentially opening new avenues for predicting and preventing preterm births. Published in Nature…...

1+ hour, 4+ min ago   (528+ words) A large Chinese birth cohort study finds that prenatal exposure to rare earth elements is linked to cognitive and motor delays in toddlers, with cord blood metabolomics pointing to disrupted phospholipid metabolism as a possible mechanism....

6+ hour, 13+ min ago   (580+ words) After years of fertility treatments to become pregnant with her first two children, 30-year-old Ashlee Amborn was shocked to learn she was pregnant with her third child just four months after her second was born. The solution, she said: a…...

10+ hour, 47+ min ago   (1638+ words) Preterm birth (PTB), defined by the World Health Organization as delivery before 37 completed weeks of gestation, remains a major global health concern with increasing incidence across most regions1,2. Clinically, PTB is categorized according to gestational age as late preterm (34–37 weeks), early…...

5+ hour, 46+ min ago   (698+ words) A registered EEG trial in preterm infants found that male voices, above all the father's, drove the strongest cortical delta-band responses to live lullabies, overturning the field's maternal-dominance assumption....