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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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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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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Scientists believe they have worked out why genes usually seen in foetuses are seen in adults in the early stages of heart failure.
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Science & environment: Autism-like behaviour in children is linked to amount of testosterone they receive whilst in mother's womb
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A recent study&#39;s findings, published in the journal &quot;Human Reproduction,&quot; raise concern with how laptops are being used by men, specifically regarding increased temperature in the scrotal area.
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Doctors may be able to predict which women are at high risk of miscarriage, say researchers.
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CHICAGO - Beyond the tired cliches and sperm-and-egg basics taught in grade school science class, researchers are discovering that men and women are even more different than anyone realized.    It turns out that major illnesses like heart disease and lung cancer are influenced by gender and that perhaps treatments for women ought to be slightly different from the approach used for men...
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Genetics may play a greater role than previously thought in accounting for black women's higher rate of premature births, researchers at Washington University School of Medicine have found.
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High levels of a male sex hormone in foetuses are linked to a higher chance of developing autistic traits in childhood, scientists say.
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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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Women who have a baby aged 40 or over are at an increased risk of stillbirth, US researchers have warned.
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NEW YORK  - Whether a woman is living with  her partner or not when she conceives seems to influence the  sex of her child, new research reports.
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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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A record-breaking baby weighing a minuscule 280 grams has grown up into a healthy young girl, US doctors report this week. But experts fret that the &#39;miracle&#39; baby may raise false hopes among parents about the outlook for their premature infants.
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The chances of losing a second child to cot death have been overestimated, according to a new review of the evidence.
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Scientists believe they have discovered how a condition that can threaten pregnancy could occur.