Essay: Wanting Babies Like Themselves, Some Parents Choose Genetic Defects
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Controlling a childÂs genetic makeup, even to preserve what some would consider a disease, is the latest tactic some of parents.
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Telling couples their fetuses have a treatable genetic disorder leads many of them to terminate the pregnancy, researchers said on Tuesday, raising issues about genetic screening programs.
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Researchers report that taking an antidepressant like Prozac may increase a pregnant womanâs risk of having a baby with a birth defect, but the chances appear remote and confined to a few rare defects.
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Increasing a mother's intake of folic acid by adding the vitamin to food supplies has been shown to cut the risk of having a baby with neural tube defects, a birth defect in which the spine doesn't fuse properly. However, new research indicates that this benefit is much weaker in overweight and obese women.
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For decades, doctors have operated on babies born with ambiguous genitalia. But there is a growing debate about the role physicians Â and parents Â should play in physically shaping children.
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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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Telling couples their fetuses have a  treatable genetic disorder leads many of them to terminate the  pregnancy, researchers said on Tuesday, raising issues about  genetic screening programs.
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Boy or girl? Almost half of U.S. fertility clinics that offer embryo screening say they allow couples to choose the sex of their child, the most extensive survey of the practice suggests.
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FRIDAY, Sept. 17 (HealthDayNews) -- Preferential parental treatment of particular children has a negative effect on all the children in the home, a new study contends.
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For a baby who is born deaf or hearing-impaired, early action by both parents and doctors may be essential to his or her social development.
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More couples are selecting the sex of their children, using techniques developed to help couples who are infertile or at risk for having babies with genetic diseases.
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Having a teenage mother can double a person&#39;s risk of committing suicide, according to a new study. Swedish researchers found that babies born to women in their teens were twice as likely to kill themselves
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SAN FRANCISCO -- Babies conceived through fertility treatments have higher rates of birth defects, but the overall risk is so small that it should not keep couples from having children this way, doctors are reporting.
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A single genetic defect inherited solely from mothers may play a key role in a range of disorders linked to a Western lifestyle, such as high blood pressure and obesity.
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NEW YORK  - Young children whose mothers  suffer from depression are at greater risk of serious  behavioral problems, and both "nurture" and "nature" seem to  play a role, according to a new study.
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The parents had tried with little success to cope with their son's accelerating deterioration. Unable to concentrate, he had dropped out of college and moved back home. When he could no longer function at the job he had held briefly, his parents kept him sequestered in their house, his condition ...
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More than 100,000 children who have been abused or neglected by their biological parents are languishing in foster care, waiting to be adopted. The explanations are practically universal.