pregnancy
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Generic Viagra Trial Among Pregnant Women Shuts Down After 11 Newborn Deaths
A Dutch trial meant to study whether sildenafil, otherwise known as Viagra, can prevent children from being born with low birth weight has been halted early amid a wave of tragic deaths. Nearly 100 pregnant women were given the drug during their pregnancy in the trial, and 11 babies later died. The deaths are especially…
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A Defunct Pregnancy Drug May Still Affect The Grandchildren Of Women Who Took It
The ties that bind us to our ancestors might be even more influential than we knew, suggests a new study published in JAMA Pediatrics. It found that the grandchildren of women who took a certain hormone-mimicking drug before the 1970s were at higher risk of developing attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) compared to children whose…
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The Latest Research Says Your Phone Won’t Harm Your Baby
Relax, Mums-to-be. Electromagnetic radiation emitted by your mobiles phone is “unlikely” to be harming your babby’s brain, new research shows. Previous studies that raised concerns using mobiles during pregnancy might affect the language, communication and motor skills of newborns were experimental, inconsistent – and exclusively carried out using animals that weren’t, well, humans. This new…
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Pregnancy Is Terrifying
Hi, regular white man Mark Serrels here. I have a wife and two kids. Many times during my wife’s pregnancies I thought to myself. It can’t be that bad or — even worse — I could totally do that. Newsflash: it is that bad. Newsflash #2: I totally couldn’t do that.