Sentences with phrase «medicine by pregnant women»

«Our discovery poses several important questions,» emphasised Alexandre Dayer, «including about the use of medicine by pregnant women which could modify fetal serotonin levels.

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The Institute of Medicine notes that the median amount of fluids typically consumed by breastfeeding mothers is 3.1 liters (13 cups), compared to 2.2 liters / 9 cups for non - pregnant / lactating women and 2.3 liters / 10 cups for pregnant women.

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These and other findings from a new study conducted by researchers at Montefiore Health System and Albert Einstein College of Medicine of Yeshiva University, offer the first clinical recommendations for making diagnostic decisions about headaches in pregnant women.

«Anti-epilepsy medicine taken by pregnant women does not harm the child's overall health: Children whose mothers have taken anti-epilepsy medicine during pregnancy, do not visit the doctor more often than children who have not been exposed to this medicine in utero.»

A novel strategy to screen pregnant women for malaria with rapid diagnostic tests and treat the test - positive women with effective antimalarials does not lower the risk of adverse pregnancy outcomes compared with treating all pregnant women with the malaria preventive sulfadoxine - pyrimethamine (SP) in sub-Saharan Africa, according to an open label randomized trial published this week in PLOS Medicine by Feiko ter Kuile, of the Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine, and colleagues.

A January 2017 report issued by the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine, which provides nonpartisan guidance for national decision - makers, found substantial evidence that cannabis is effective for treating chronic pain, nausea and vomiting, and in reducing spasticity symptoms in multiple sclerosis, but also found clear risks for pregnant women and youth.

For most healthy women the risk of getting pregnant far outweighs any potential risk posed by being on the Pill, says Margaret Wierman, MD, professor of medicine, physiology, and biophysics at the University of Colorado and chief of endocrinology at the Denver VA Medical Center.

She added that other research has shown that the majority of women gain more weight than recommended by the Institute of Medicine while pregnant, which ranges from 11 to 40 pounds depending on pre-pregnancy weight.

«Teratogenicity of High Vitamin A Intake» by Kenneth J. Rothman of the Boston University School of Medicine and his colleagues, correlates vitamin A consumption among more than 22,000 pregnant women with birth defects occurring in subsequent offspring.

Premarin, a form of hormone replacement therapy made from pregnant mare's urine by the Wyeth - Ayerst company, was one of the top - selling prescription medicines in the United States until the 2002 Women's Health Initiative (WHI) study showed that PremPro (a combination of Premarin and a progestin) increased the risk of breast cancer, strokes, and gallbladder disease.

A friend in the legal profession shares stories of a boss telling women associates not to mess up their career prospects by getting pregnant; a friend in medicine tells a story of a doctor saying, in an aside, that a young Hispanic girl should have graduated from high school instead of «having a litter»; a friend in business shares a story of colleagues mixing up the name of two African American associates, then saying «Well, they're basically the same person.»

Some pregnant women have been given prescription medicines that caused irreversible damage to the baby, and were not warned by their physician.

For infertility issues that can not be treated by medicine, a surrogate, a woman who agrees to become pregnant with her own eggs and the provided sperm, or a gestational carrier, a woman who carries the provided egg and sperm in her own uterus, might also be options.