Pregnancy News

Loudon Co. seeks to curb teen pregnancy rate (Knoxville News Sentinel)

Private and public agencies are working together with the schools to address the growing problem of teen pregnancy in Loudon County.
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Water disinfection products no harm to pregnancy (Reuters via Yahoo! News)

Drinking water that contains disinfection by-products at regulatory cut-off levels does not appear to raise a pregnant woman's risk of delivering a small baby or delivering prematurely, new research shows.
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Pregnancy Situations Have Impact On Brain Development In Pre-term Infants (Science Daily)

Brain development in infants who are born very prematurely is still incomplete. Factors that cause premature birth may have an impact on the development of the premature infant's brain both during pregnancy and later on after birth.
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Pregnancy situations have impact on brain development in pre-term infants (PhysOrg)

Brain development in infants who are born very prematurely is still incomplete. Factors that cause premature birth may have an impact on the development of the premature infant's brain both during pregnancy and later on after birth. A project conducted as part of the Academy of Finland Research Programme on Neuroscience (NEURO) is concerned to study brain growth and development invery premature ...
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Pregnancy center asks public for formal wear (Texarkana Gazette)

1st Choice Pregnancy Resource Center is asking the community for donations of formal wear for the “What If ...?” Abstinence Program’s upcoming Purity Ball.
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NICE Issues Updated Guidance For Rhesus Negative Women During Pregnancy (Medical News Today)

The National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence (NICE) has published guidance on the use of routine antenatal anti-D prophylaxis for rhesus D negative women in the NHS in England and Wales.
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First herpes infection during pregnancy poses greatest risk (Chattanooga Times Free Press)

DEAR DR. DONOHUE: I married a man while I was overseas. We now live in the United States. Three months ago, I came down with a herpes infection. My husband is the only man I have ever been with. I questioned him, and he said he had been treated for a sexual infection three years ago but that they never told him what it was. I am despondent, because I so wanted to have children. What can I do? — ...
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Pregnancy Scares For Half Women (SkyNews via Yahoo! UK & Ireland News)

Almost half of women have had unprotected sex or had their usual contraception fail in the last year.
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HealthWatch: Keeping Cigarettes Out Of Kids' Hands | Bacterial Infections During Pregnancy (NBC 5 Chicago)

Topics: Keeping Cigarettes Out Of Kids' Hands | Bacterial Infections During Pregnancy
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Scale of pregnancy scares revealed (Channel 4)

Almost half of women have had unprotected sex or had their usual contraception fail in the last year, according to a survey.
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