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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A simple urine test during pregnancy could someday predict which women are likely to develop dangerously high blood pressure called pre-eclampsia, a condition that kills hundreds of mothers-to-be each year in the United States and leads to 15 percent of all premature births, researchers say.
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A company behind a product that predicts childbirth weeks in advance hopes to attract international investment.
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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, scientists say.
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Women evolved curvier spines than men to stop them wobbling under the weight of pregnancy, say researchers.
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More than 2,500 families participated in the study carried out by the King Edward Memorial Hospital over a 15-year period. Pregnant women are usually scanned at 12 and 18 weeks and after 20 weeks if there are any medical concerns.
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NEW YORK  - Treating high-risk pregnant women with a progesterone hormone during the second and third trimester to prevent preterm birth seems to be safe for the fetus, according to a report in Obstetrics & Gynecology.
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Blood from a baby'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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The living arrangements of parents at the time a baby is conceived may play a role in determining its sex, research suggests. A US study found parents who were married or living together before conception
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NEW YORK  - Even with new, more objective  criteria, women are still less likely than men to have their  heart condition accurately diagnosed as a heart attack,  researchers report.
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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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DURHAM, N.C. -- A new center at Duke University will become the first to study why more babies are born premature or underweight in the South than elsewhere in the nation.
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Infanticide and sex-selective abortion yield a more skewed gender ratio.
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The mystery of sudden infant death syndrome (SIDS) may have gotten a little less murky: British researchers say a high level of a protein in a developing fetus corresponds
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A blood test to identify the sex of foetuses at seven weeks could cut the need for further risky tests.
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NEW YORK  - Consuming a low-cholesterol, low-fat diet during pregnancy seems to have a beneficial effect on blood flow in the fetus, Norwegian researchers report.
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Nov 26 (HeartCenterOnline) - A heart protein that is naturally produced during fetal development is showing promise as a therapy for heart attack patients.