Posts Tagged ‘pregnancy’
Industrial chemicals pass from mother to fetus throughout pregnancy
In a study published in Environment International researchers at Karolinska Institutet in Sweden show how PFAS industrial chemicals, which are used in many consumer products, pass through the placenta …
Read Full ArticleRecurrent miscarriage linked to faulty sperm
The early-stage study, from scientists at Imperial College London, investigated the sperm quality of 50 men whose partners had suffered three or more consecutive miscarriages. …
Read Full ArticleScientists find that breast cancer protection from pregnancy starts decades later
In general, women who have had children have a lower risk of breast cancer compared to women who have never given birth. However, new research has found that moms don’t experience this breast cancer …
Read Full ArticleExposure of pregnant women to chemical pollutants leaves an imprint on their metabolism
Exposure to chemical environmental pollutants during pregnancy may affect child development, even when the exposure levels are low. …
Read Full ArticleA major role for a small organ in the immune response during pregnancy
The immune system of a pregnant woman is altered during pregnancy, but not in the way previously believed, according to results from a study at Linköping University, Sweden. …
Read Full ArticleFirst evidence that soot from polluted air is reaching placenta
Evidence of tiny particles of carbon, typically created by burning fossil fuels, has been found in placentas for the first time, in new research presented today in Paris at the European Respiratory Society International Congress. …
Read Full ArticleCord blood clue to respiratory diseases
New research has found children born in the last three months of the year in Melbourne may have a greater risk of developing respiratory diseases such as asthma. …
Read Full ArticleAir pollution affects thyroid development in fetuses
Soot and dust alters thyroid development in fetuses before they are born in smoggy cities, raising concern about health impacts later in life, new USC research shows. …
Read Full ArticleLow plasma levels of omega-3 fatty acids associated with preterm birth
Pregnant women who had low plasma levels of long chain n-3 fatty acids in their first and second trimesters were at a significantly higher risk of early preterm birth when compared with women who had higher levels …
Read Full ArticleAfter 60 years, scientists uncover how thalidomide produced birth defects
More than 60 years after the drug thalidomide caused birth defects in thousands of children whose mothers took the drug while pregnant, scientists at Dana-Farber Cancer Institute have solved a mystery that has lingered ever since the dangers of the drug first became apparent …
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