ESTIMADA MAYO CLINIC: estou pronta para formar uma família, mas meu médico disse que a gravidez pode ser de alto risco pois tenho problemas cardíacos. Gostaria de obter mais informações sobre como a gravidez afeta o coração e o que posso fazer para reduzir o risco de complicações?
Infants conceived by in vitro fertilization (IVF) may be at increased risk of a type of skull deformity called craniosynostosis, suggests a study in The Journal of Craniofacial Surgery, under the guidance of Editor-in-Chief Mutaz Habal, MD, and published in the Lippincott portfolio by Wolters Kluwer.
亲爱的妙佑医疗国际(Mayo Clinic)：我准备要结婚生子，但我的医生说怀孕对我来说可能风险很高，因为我患有心脏病。你们能解答一下怀孕对心脏的影响吗？以及我能做些什么来降低并发症的风险？
السادة الأعزاء في مايو كلينك: أنا مستعدة لتكوين أسرة، إلا أن طبيبي أخبرني بأن الحمل قد يكون مرتفع الخطورة بالنسبة لي لأنني مصابة بحالة مرضية في القلب. هل يمكن أن تشرحوا كيف يؤثر الحمل على القلب وماذا أفعل لتقليل مخاطر إصابتي بمضاعفات؟
Biologically born women who express feminine and masculine characteristics are more likely to choose uterine-preserving surgery to correct pelvic organ drooping, according to the results of a new study.
Oxygen-deprived newborns who undergo cooling therapy to protect their brains are at an elevated risk of seizures and brain damage during the rewarming period, which could be a precursor of disability or death, a new study by a team of researchers led by a UT Southwestern pediatrician suggests. The finding, published online in JAMA Neurology, could lead to better ways to protect these vulnerable patients during an often overlooked yet critical period of cooling – or hypothermia – therapy.
A study led by the University of Birmingham has revealed for the first time that the contraceptive pill can reduce the risk of type 2 diabetes by over a quarter in women with polycystic ovary syndrome (PCOS).
A researcher at Binghamton University, State University of New York has received a $1.74 million, five-year grant from the National Institutes of Health to explore how pre-natal alcohol exposure leads to ‘anxious’ offspring. Research project to explore how pre-natal alcohol exposure leads to ‘anxious’ offspring
Menstrual cycle length has been associated with different chronic conditions, including breast cancer, osteoporosis, and cardiovascular disease.
Rutgers School of Public Health’s Slawa Rokicki, instructor in the Department of Health Behavior, Society, and Policy, and Leslie M. Kantor, professor and chair of the Department of Urban-Global Public Health, have received a Burke Foundation grant to utilize existing data from doula programs to develop a tool that can be used by programs throughout New Jersey to assess service models that can lead to program sustainability.
Scientists specializing in research on sex and gender differences in diseases of the cardiovascular, renal, endocrine and immune systems will meet virtually October 19–22, 2021, for the American Physiological Society’s (APS) New Trends in Sex and Gender Medicine conference.
Healthy full-term infants born during the COVID-19 pandemic had substantially shorter hospital stays than those born before the pandemic, with no change in hospital readmissions after discharge, according to a new study led by researchers at Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia (CHOP), in collaboration with colleagues at the Yale School of Medicine, Nemours duPont, and Epic Systems Corporation. The findings, published today in Pediatrics, suggest shorter hospital stays for healthy term infants might be safe outside of a pandemic scenario, with implications for health care costs and best practices.
The Rutgers School of Public Health is excited to announce that Zorimar Rivera-Núñez, PhD, MS, is now a tenure track assistant professor in the Department of Biostatistics and Epidemiology.
A new study, which finds an increased risk of poorer outcomes for the new-borns and symptomatic women with COVID-19, adds further weight to the argument for pregnant women to be vaccinated for the virus.
Black women are more likely than white women to experience a severe, unexpected complication during labor or delivery, particularly due to systemic inflammation, according to research being presented at the ANESTHESIOLOGY® 2021 annual meeting.
Researchers at the Wayne State University School of Medicine and the National Institutes of Health’s Perinatology Research Branch in Detroit have discovered that the more severely infected with COVID-19 a mother is, the more likely she is to experience preterm birth.
A research team led by Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia (CHOP) has analyzed the birth volume and geographic distribution of obstetric hospitals across the United States and found that a plurality of those hospitals delivers fewer than 500 infants per year. The researchers also found that nearly a fifth of low-volume hospitals are more than 30 miles from another obstetric hospital, and more than half are in rural communities.
Chemicals increasingly used as flame retardants and plasticizers pose a larger risk to children’s brain development than previously thought, according to a commentary published today in Environmental Health Perspectives.
Untreated depression in pregnant people is strongly linked to low birth weight and preterm birth, with Black pregnant people suffering worse outcomes than their white peers, according to a new meta-analysis led by Shannon Simonovich, assistant professor at DePaul University’s School of Nursing.
Cesarean birth rates are on the rise, and this is especially true for high-risk pregnant women who have undergone organ transplantation. While cesarean births account for 31% of all deliveries in the United States, the rate of cesarean births for pregnant people with kidney transplants is 62.6% and 44.6% for liver transplants.
Researchers have received a $5.3 million grant to conduct the Eliminating Monitor Overuse (EMO) clinical trial, seeking to discover how best to reduce the overuse of unnecessary monitoring strategies for infants who have a common lung infection called bronchiolitis.
Physicians recommend that patients with pulmonary hypertension avoid pregnancy, given the high risk of death for the mother and baby. However, Candice Cruise was unaware of her condition until she reached 21 weeks of pregnancy.
尊敬的妙佑医疗国际(Mayo Clinic)：我被诊断出子宫内膜异位症，并且有月经大出血症状。我的医疗服务提供方认为我应该考虑子宫内膜消融术。一位朋友告诉我，这种手术可能会有问题，因为我还不到30岁，可能会影响我今后的生育能力。请问有哪些风险？是否有其他替代治疗方案？
السادة الأعزاء في مايو كلينك: تم تشخيصي بانتباذ بطانة الرحم ولديّ نزف دم غزير خلال الحيض. وقال مزود رعايتي الصحية إنه يجب أن أفكر في استئصال بطانة الرحم. وقد أخبرني أحد الأصدقاء أن الأمر قد يسبب مشكلة لأنني فقط في أواخر العشرينات من عمري، وأن ذلك قد يؤثر ذلك على قدرتي على حمل طفل فيما بعد.
ESTIMADA MAYO CLINIC: fui diagnosticada com endometriose e tenho sangramento menstrual intenso. O meu profissional de assistência médica orientou que eu deveria considerar a ablação endometrial.
ESTIMADA MAYO CLINIC: Me diagnosticaron endometriosis y tengo sangrados menstruales abundantes.
Unvaccinated pregnant women are increasingly being hospitalized with COVID-19 during a nationwide surge of the Delta variant, according to research from UT Southwestern Medical Center.
Cedars-Sinai is joining a nationwide study to investigate how children's development is impacted by biological and environmental exposures, especially to opioids, marijuana, alcohol and tobacco, before and shortly after birth. The goal is to develop insights that can inform public policy to improve the health of children across the nation.
A study recently published in PLOS ONE found that pregnancy intentions often change over as short as a 12-month time period, and that they specifically vary with partner status, household income, and employment status.
With women’s health in mind, experts with Keck Medicine of USC and USC Norris Comprehensive Cancer Center explain why screenings and yearly preventive visits are essential, and who may need additional testing offered.
A study of 29,685 women finds postpartum depression (PPD) is a significant health issue, with nearly 13 percent of the sample being at risk. Results showed that women who were currently breastfeeding at the time of data collection had statistically significant lower risk of PPD than women who were not breastfeeding. There also was a statistically significant inverse relationship between breastfeeding length and risk of PPD. As the number of weeks that women breastfed increased, their PPD decreased. Surprisingly, there was no significant difference in PPD risk among women with varying breastfeeding intent (yes, no, unsure).
The benefits of object play (blocks, puzzles, cars, dolls and so on) for infant learning and development are well documented.
Mississippi’s ban on nearly all abortions greater than 15 weeks forces women to carry pregnancies to term under adverse circumstances and increases the risk of maternal mortality and other health problems, according to a public health amicus brief filed in the United States Supreme Court on September 20th.
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With periods, pregnancies and pap smears in the rearview mirror, menopausal women may stop tending to health below their waist. A Penn State Health urogynecologist offers women advice as they age.
Researchers from Flinders University and the Robinson Research Institute at the University of Adelaide have identified distinctive biological markers that could improve the routine blood tests pregnant women already undergo and detect risks for pregnancy complications earlier than currently possible.
Hot flashes, one of the most common symptoms of the menopause transition, not only interfere with a woman’s quality of life, but are also associated with an array of health problems.
A newly published study found that women who contract COVID-19 during pregnancy are at significantly higher risk of developing pre-eclampsia, the leading cause of maternal and infant death worldwide.
Women who receive COVID-19 mRNA vaccines during pregnancy pass high levels of antibodies to their babies, a new NYU Langone study finds.
A common antibiotic has been found to reduce low birth weight and premature births, if taken during pregnancy, in countries where malaria is endemic, according to a research review.
The most common hormone disorder affecting women of reproductive age—polycystic ovary syndrome (PCOS)—cost an estimated $8 billion to diagnose and treat nationwide in 2020, according to a new economic analysis published in the Endocrine Society’s Journal of Clinical Endocrinology & Metabolism.
A sex education program in Arizona significantly impacted key factors associated with pregnancy prevention among Native American teens.
Some women say their periods change after getting a covid-19 vaccination.
A new 4,600-square-foot, state-of-the-art maternal fetal clinic space located at Monroe Carell Jr. Children’s Hospital at Vanderbilt opened Sept. 13 to allow these specialists to further enhance and grow innovative programming that helps families seek optimal outcomes for their unborn babies.
Women with higher levels of PFAS in their system may be 20% more likely to stop breastfeeding early, according to a new study published in the Endocrine Society’s Journal of Clinical Endocrinology & Metabolism.
Throughout history, pandemics have been a key driver of human population change, thanks to mortality and declining fertility rates. And, according to a new study co-authored by a Cornell professor, COVID-19 is no exception.
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