The Claim: Fetal Heart Rate Can Predict the Babyâs Sex
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Is there any connection between a unborn babyâs gender and the rate of the fetal heartbeat?
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Infanticide and sex-selective abortion yield a more skewed gender ratio.
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Female sex hormones in the womb may influence neurodevelopment and later risk for anorexia, a new study suggests.
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Problems during pregnancy could be an indicator a baby will be at a higher risk of cot death, scientists suggest.
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Scientists move closer to a predictive test for the dangerous pregnancy complication pre-eclampsia.
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A new study questions the idea that the female brain evolved to be talkative and the male brain evolved to be reticent.
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WEDNESDAY, Sept. 22 (HealthDayNews) -- The kind of work a father does may affect the risk of birth defects in his children, claims a study in the September issue of the Journal of Occupational and Environmental Medicine.
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http://www.economist.com/displaystory.cfm?story_id=1042 3886&fsrc=RSS Looking for the right man SIR â My husband and I enjoyed your article on spousal selection and its finding that women have better choices the higher the ratio of males to females (âA buyers' marketâ, December 15th). But there may be limits to this. We travelled to Alaska ten years ago and read several [...].
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Scientists show how easy it is to draw skewed medical conclusions when looking for patterns -- like that Virgos have more morning sickness. Bodyhack reports from AAAS in San Francisco.
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When my wife was in labor in 1991, the doctor attached an electronic fetal monitor to her belly to record her contractions and the baby's heart rate. I remember being so transfixed by the monitor that I forgot about my wife. At one point, she said, "Wow, it hurts." But because the graph on the...
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Women who have a baby aged 40 or over are at an increased risk of stillbirth, US researchers have warned.
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Pregnant women can be reassured there is no evidence repeated ultrasounds will harm their baby, scientists say
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NEW YORK  - During pregnancy, a blood test  called alpha-fetoprotein can determine a woman's risk of having  a child with birth defects. Now, new research suggests that  this test can also predict a deadly problem that occurs after  birth -- sudden infant death syndrome (SIDS).
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Giving birth to a boy can increase the likelihood of severe postnatal depression, a study suggests.
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Blood from a baby&#39;s umbilical cord could help doctors predict which children will suffer from allergies and asthma later in their lives, British and American scientists said on Thursday.
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Boys who were repeatedly exposed to cocaine while in their mother's womb are more likely than girls or non-exposed children to be hyperactive or have other problem behaviors at six or seven years of age, new study findings show.
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A company behind a product that predicts childbirth weeks in advance hopes to attract international investment.