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Exercise during pregnancy can be good for the developing baby as well as for the mother, research suggests.
BBC News (Ostetricia e Ginecologia) - Mer, 7 Aprile 2010
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Pregnant women who've had abnormal cervical tissue removed with a loop electrosurgical excision procedure (LEEP) are not at increased risk for preterm delivery, a retrospective study suggests.
Medscape (Ostetricia e Ginecologia) - Lun, 29 Marzo 2010
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Postpartum care involves managing sore breasts, hair loss, mood changes and more.
MayoClinic.com (Ostetricia e Ginecologia) - Lun, 1 Marzo 2010
http://www.mayoclinic.com
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The risk for both medically indicated and spontaneous preterm birth is higher for smokers than nonsmokers, new research shows.
Medscape (Ostetricia e Ginecologia) - Lun, 1 Marzo 2010
http://www.medscape.com
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In women affected by Von Willebrand disease or by other bleeding disorders there is a hemorrhage risk associated with the onset of menstruation and delivery. The incidence of Von Willebrand disease is estimated around 1%-3%, but its prevalence in women with menorrhagia rises to 11% with a maximum of 16%. There are also various kinds of this disease, which are associated with a more or less marked severity in bleedings: type 1, with a deficiency of Von Willebrand factor (VWF), type 2, in which there is an abnormality of the factor itself, and type 3, with a complete lack of VWF. While the association with menorrhagia and with bleeding disorders in general is well known, we still know very little about the relation between these congenital defects and bleeding developing in the post-partum.
MedNews (Ostetricia e Ginecologia) - Ven, 12 Febbraio 2010
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The term harelip, used to describe facial clefts, arose from a belief that the defect originated from the mother being startled by a hare during her pregnancy.1 The concept that congenital structural abnormalities of the fetus developed from events during pregnancy is called maternal impression and it continued to be seriously discussed well into the 19th century.
Journal of the American Medical Association (Ostetricia e Ginecologia) - Ven, 12 Febbraio 2010
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The quadrivalent human papillomavirus (HPV) vaccine (Gardasil) significantly reduces HPV-associated genital diseases such as warts and cervical dysplasia.
Medscape (Ostetricia e Ginecologia) - Ven, 12 Febbraio 2010
http://www.medscape.com
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The management of body weight during pregnancy has undergone fundamental changes in the last twenty years (the most recent guidelines published by the Institute of Medicine (IOM) date back to the Nineties): women are today culturally more advanced, the average BMI of the population – at least in the USA – has increased, the age for the first pregnancy has shifted onwards and there are comorbilities such as hypertension and/or diabetes. The new recommendations by IOM have been given in May 2009 and are based on BMI categorization before pregnancy according to the definitions of the World Health Organization (WHO), with the result of being more limitative.
MedNews (Ostetricia e Ginecologia) - Ven, 5 Febbraio 2010
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A mechanism for regulating the hormone prolactin has newly been revealed by scientists at Karolinska Institutet. The results are to be published in the scientific journal Neuron, and may be significant for conditions and functions such as breast-feeding, sexual libido, and metabolism.
Karolinska Institutet (Ostetricia e Ginecologia) - Lun, 1 Febbraio 2010
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Newborns of women who smoked during pregnancy show signs of circulatory dysfunction, according to a novel study from Karolinska Institutet. The findings, which are published in the scientific journal Hypertension, reveal that blood pressure and heart rate control is already abnormal in newborn babies of smoking mothers, and continues to worsen throughout the first year.
Karolinska Institutet (Ostetricia e Ginecologia) - Lun, 1 Febbraio 2010
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