The stork has arrived for Samaire Armstrong. The 32-year-old Mentalist star welcomed her first child recently, announcing the news on her Facebook page Sunday.* Model...
Low birth weight infants who receive iron supplements have a lower chance of developing ADHD (attention deficit hyperactivity disorder) and other behavioral problems later in life. The finding came from Swedish researchers at the Department of Clinical Sciences, Umeå University, along with...
testing and name on it still? Can someone take a mother to court to get his name on birth certificate of a child and get dna test done if there is already a father listed?
Advocates of planned home birth have emphasized its benefits for patient safety, patient satisfaction, cost effectiveness, and respect for women's rights. A clinical opinion paper published in the American Journal of Obstetrics and Gynecology critically evaluates each of these claims in its...
Unexpected upsides to hormonal birth control seem to get way less attention than potential risks, but here's a benefit we shouldn't let slip under the radar: Using hormonal contraception could help give you a better brain.*In a new study published in the*Journal of Women's Health, researchers...
Researchers at Case Western Reserve University have found a way to create three-dimensional maps of the stress that circulating blood places on the developing heart in an animal model - a key to understanding triggers of heart defects. The team has begun testing the technology to uncover how...
A U.S. Food and Drug Administration-funded study led by the Kaiser Permanente Northern California Division of Research found an increased risk of arterial thrombotic events (ATE) and venous thromboembolic events (VTE) - commonly referred to as blockage of arteries and blood clots, respectively -...
When the Affordable Care Act passed, we all rejoiced over what Obamacare would mean for women: Free birth control? Free annual doctor's visits? Free maternal health care? Hell, yes. Only...if you're already on insurance, figuring out how to take advantage of the new mandates is confusing, and...
Total sorrow. Unimaginable and seemingly implacable sorrow. Nobody ever should be made to feel how Oakland Athletics pitcher Pat Neshek and his wife Stephanee Neshek must feel right now. But it happens. Babies die, and parents have to live on.
In a series of tweets that are simply devastating...
This is the episode when they're going to prom and wilke surprises daphne at her house while her other date is there. When he pulls up in the limo and steps out and they talk then decide wilke has to give the other guy a ride, a song plays that I, for the life of me, cannot find. It was hard for...
The women at the Democratic National Convention are quite simply kicking ass this week. First we had Nancy Keenan and Michelle Obama speaking on women's reproductive rights (something the Republicans were too cowardly to do). Then last night we watched Cecile Richards, the president of Planned...
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New research by a University of Rhode Island professor suggests that the length of human pregnancy is limited primarily by a mother's metabolism, not the size of the birth canal. The research, published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences the week of August 27, challenges the...
This year's GOP platform is just full of interesting information, isn't it folks? We've learned that it includes a section on creating a Federal Personhood law that would outlaw all abortion, many popular forms of contraception, and severely limit access to in vitro fertilization. We've seen...
Well, Anna Faris told us she wanted to populate, and she's as good as her word. The Scary Movie actor and her Parks and Recreation star hubby Chris Pratt are welcoming their first...
According to a study published Online First in The Lancet Oncology, babies born to women with breast cancer who received chemotherapy while pregnant do not seem to be at greater risk of complications. The researchers analyzed over 400 women from across Europe who had been identified as having...
A lot of major women's magazines like to talk about sex, and some even discuss birth control options. But rarely do they take a stand in the politics of birth control access, abortion, or insurance coverage. So when Women's Health*launched a special report on birth control laws and your health...
University of Adelaide researchers say women pregnant with twins should elect to give birth at 37 weeks to avoid serious complications. The advice is based on the world's biggest study addressing the timing of birth for women who have an uncomplicated twin pregnancy, the results of which are...
Research from Karolinska Institutet shows that the human olfactory bulb - a structure in the brain that processes sensory input from the nose - differs from that of other mammals in that no new neurons are formed in this area after birth. The discovery, which is published in the scientific...