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12/08/2017 / By Jhoanna Robinson

Likelihood of caesarean birth found to be inherited: Causes of obstructed labor often get passed on, circumventing natural selection

Women who were born via caesarean section are more likely to also give birth via caesarean section, concluded an international team of scientists including Michaela Pavlicev of the Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center (Human Genetics) and evolutionary biologists at the University of Vienna in a study that was published in PNAS. According to the information […]

10/26/2017 / By Frances Bloomfield

Pharmaceutical use during pregnancy resulting in premature births, birth defects, and massive costs to insurers

The European Medicines Agency will go over the evidence concerning the harmful effects of an epilepsy pill on unborn babies and decide if the warnings are sufficient enough. The drug, sodium valproate, has been connected to nearly 20,000 babies born with disabilities ever since its introduction in the 1970s, reported the DailyMail.co.uk. Also known as […]

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