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Vitamin D and Pregnancy
Vitamin D helps to maintain your muscle and bone strength. It also helps your body absorb calcium from food. Vitamin D may also give you protection against developing diseases such as diabetes, heart disease and some types of cancer. Adults who have vitamin D deficiency do not usually feel any different but in some cases […] Read more
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Decline in Male Fertility?
At the recent European Society for Reproduction and Embryology’s Annual Conference, this issue was hotly debated. A recent study from France showed that men’s sperm concentration decreased by nearly a third or about 2% per year. 73.6 million per ml was the average sperm concentration for a 35 year old man in 1989. By the […] Read more
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Coping with nausea and vomiting in pregnancy “Morning sickness” can occur at any time of the day. It usually starts at about the sixth week of pregnancy and settles by about the fourteenth week. Some women will not be affected by morning sickness, but in others it can be severe enough to require hospitalisation. Fortunately, […] Read more
At the recent annual conference of the American College of Obstetrician/Gynaecologists between 4-8 May 2013, a study presented by Russell implied that high carbohydrate levels may be responsible for impairing embryo quality. Embryo development was higher in patients who have a high protein and low carbohydrate diet. Clinical pregnancy rates were higher – 66% versus […] Read more
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New Highly Accurate Blood Test For Downs Syndrome A new blood test for the mother with accuracy approaching that amniocentesis has been successfully trialled in the United States. VERIFI which can detect fetal DNA in the mother’s circulation has been a resounding success in large U.S. trials. It is much more accurate than nuchal translucency […] Read more