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Did You Know? High Fever During Pregnancy Can Affect Foetal Development
A high-grade fever disrupts the body's equilibrium because it creates conditions which can harm foetal development by damaging brain and body cell growth.
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Baby Girl With 6-Centimetre Tail Born In Brazil
Spina bifida, a birth abnormality brought on by an improperly developing baby's spinal cord, was present in the girl at birth.
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Woman Sues Mom's Doctor For Allowing Her To Be Born, Wins Millions
A woman who sued her mother's doctor - claiming that she should never have been born - has won the right to millions in damages.
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Wheelchair-Bound Girl Didn't Want To Miss Class Trip, So Teacher Did This
An elementary school teacher has captured the hearts of thousands by carrying a 10-year-old girl with spina bifida on his back during a field trip.
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Second Child Has 10% More Chance To Have Spina Bifida: Doctors
New Delhi: The chances of the second child having Spina bifida — a defect with incomplete closing of the backbone and membrane around the spinal cord — increases by 10 per cent if the first child also had similar problems, neurosurgeons here said. The doctors said that though the treatment of such problems needs early intervention, if left untr...
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App to Help Spina Bifida Patients
A system incorporating a smartphone app can help adolescents and young adults with spina bifida.
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Obesity linked to birth defects
Obese women are more likely to give birth to children with spina bifida, heart problems, cleft palate and a number of other defects.
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Diet and risk of birth defects
Women who eat lots of foods that tend to make blood sugar soar may be more likely to have a baby with birth defects of the brain or spine, a study suggests. These foods, known as high glycaemic index foods, include white bread and other highly processed grains, potatoes and soft drinks.
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Maternal obesity and birth defects
A recent study suggests that women who are obese when they become pregnant appear to be more likely to give birth to babies with various birth defects than women of healthy weight. Moreover, simply being overweight but not obese at the time of conception seems to increase the risk of having a child with heart defects or more than one unrelated birt...
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Risk of mental defects at birth
Recent research suggests that families who have a child with Down syndrome appear to have a higher-than-average risk of having another child with neural tube defects and vice versa.
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Did You Know? High Fever During Pregnancy Can Affect Foetal Development
A high-grade fever disrupts the body's equilibrium because it creates conditions which can harm foetal development by damaging brain and body cell growth.
-
Baby Girl With 6-Centimetre Tail Born In Brazil
Spina bifida, a birth abnormality brought on by an improperly developing baby's spinal cord, was present in the girl at birth.
-
Woman Sues Mom's Doctor For Allowing Her To Be Born, Wins Millions
A woman who sued her mother's doctor - claiming that she should never have been born - has won the right to millions in damages.
-
Wheelchair-Bound Girl Didn't Want To Miss Class Trip, So Teacher Did This
An elementary school teacher has captured the hearts of thousands by carrying a 10-year-old girl with spina bifida on his back during a field trip.
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Second Child Has 10% More Chance To Have Spina Bifida: Doctors
New Delhi: The chances of the second child having Spina bifida — a defect with incomplete closing of the backbone and membrane around the spinal cord — increases by 10 per cent if the first child also had similar problems, neurosurgeons here said. The doctors said that though the treatment of such problems needs early intervention, if left untr...
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App to Help Spina Bifida Patients
A system incorporating a smartphone app can help adolescents and young adults with spina bifida.
-
Obesity linked to birth defects
Obese women are more likely to give birth to children with spina bifida, heart problems, cleft palate and a number of other defects.
-
Diet and risk of birth defects
Women who eat lots of foods that tend to make blood sugar soar may be more likely to have a baby with birth defects of the brain or spine, a study suggests. These foods, known as high glycaemic index foods, include white bread and other highly processed grains, potatoes and soft drinks.
-
Maternal obesity and birth defects
A recent study suggests that women who are obese when they become pregnant appear to be more likely to give birth to babies with various birth defects than women of healthy weight. Moreover, simply being overweight but not obese at the time of conception seems to increase the risk of having a child with heart defects or more than one unrelated birt...
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Risk of mental defects at birth
Recent research suggests that families who have a child with Down syndrome appear to have a higher-than-average risk of having another child with neural tube defects and vice versa.
