OBGYN & Reproduction Week articles from May 2004

OBGYN & Reproduction Week archives from May 2004

Women physically or sexually abused as children more likely to smoke.
May 3, 2004... 2004 MAY 3 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Women survivors of childhood abuse are 40% more likely to become smokers than women who have not been abused, suggests research in the Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health. And women who...

Multiple birth rates after assisted reproductive techniques have leveled off.
May 3, 2004... 2004 MAY 3 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Multiple birth rates after assisted reproductive techniques have leveled off. "European results of assisted reproductive techniques from treatments initiated during 2000 are presented in this fourth...

Unmarried women say they feel misunderstood in doctors' offices.
May 3, 2004... 2004 MAY 3 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Regardless of sexual orientation, unmarried women ages 40 to 75 voiced reluctance to undergo routine cancer screening tests, feeling out of place or misunderstood in healthcare settings, according to...

Nurses in rural areas who are interested in forensic training face challenges.
May 3, 2004... 2004 MAY 3 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- In rural areas far from established sexual assault nurse examiners (SANE) programs, nurses considering becoming SANEs have few opportunities to talk with or observe experienced colleagues to explore the...

Small benign tumors may be linked with increased risk of miscarriage.
May 3, 2004... 2004 MAY 3 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Early results from a pioneering study at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill indicate that small uterine fibroids are associated with an increased risk of miscarriage. Fibroids, benign...

Coordinated teams help pregnant patients with locked knees.
May 3, 2004... 2004 MAY 3 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Coordinated teams help pregnant patients with locked knees. According to published research from the United States, "an acutely locked knee is a painful and debilitating orthopedic condition...

Intracytoplasmic sperm injection works when oocytes have abnormal structures.
May 3, 2004... 2004 MAY 3 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Intracytoplasmic sperm injection works when oocytes have abnormal structures. According to recent research from Israel, "a couple with unexplained infertility was referred for routine in vitro...

Multiple births via in vitro fertilization are declining.
May 3, 2004... 2004 MAY 3 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- A worrisome national surge in multiple births linked to test-tube technology is easing, largely because doctors are implanting fewer embryos during each attempt to make a woman pregnant, a study...

Parents' feelings and official practices governing stored embryos vary.
May 3, 2004... 2004 MAY 3 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Parents' feelings and official practices governing stored embryos vary. According to a study from the United States, "cryopreservation of embryos is frequently employed in in vitro fertilization...

Three key variables predict the success of intrauterine insemination.
May 3, 2004... 2004 MAY 3 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Three key variables predict the success of intrauterine insemination. "This study was performed to predict pregnancy by intrauterine insemination (IUI) using computer-aided sperm analysis (CASA)...

Microbes that produce hydrogen peroxide reduce obstetrical complications.
May 3, 2004... 2004 MAY 3 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Microbes that produce hydrogen peroxide reduce obstetrical complications. According to recent research published in the Journal of Clinical Microbiology, "lactobacilli, principally the strains that...

Oral contraceptives increase colon cancer risk.
May 3, 2004... 2004 MAY 3 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Oral contraceptives increase colon cancer risk; tubal ligation and abortion decrease risk. "267,400 female textile workers in Shanghai, who were administered a questionnaire at enrollment into a...

Research making progress in quest for male version of birth control pill.
May 3, 2004... 2004 MAY 3 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- More than 40 years after the oral birth control pill hit the market for women, scientists are still trying to come up with a version for men. Men account for nearly a third of all contraceptive use...

Three-dimensional ultrasound identifies congenital uterine anomalies.
May 3, 2004... 2004 MAY 3 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Three-dimensional ultrasound identifies congenital uterine anomalies. "Congenital uterine anomalies are associated with a range of adverse reproductive outcomes but may also be found incidentally....

Family medicine residents need to be taught how to do prenatal ultrasounds.
May 3, 2004... 2004 MAY 3 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Family medicine residents need to be taught how to do prenatal ultrasounds. According to recent research published in the journal Family Medicine, "Prenatal ultrasound is a powerful diagnostic tool,...

Steroid-linked taxol analogues cytotoxic to cancer cells in vitro.
May 3, 2004... 2004 MAY 3 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Steroid-linked taxol analogues cytotoxic to breast and ovarian cancer cells in vitro. "The female steroid hormone 3,17beta-estradiol (2) was selected as an agent to target taxol (1) to estrogen...

Unrecognized ectopic pregnancies threaten patient survival.
May 3, 2004... 2004 MAY 3 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Unrecognized ectopic pregnancies threaten patient survival. According to scientists in the United States, "we report a case of heterotopic pregnancy in a woman who had not undergone in vitro...

Novel tissue-restricted angiogenic factors regulate steroidogenic function.
May 3, 2004... 2004 MAY 3 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Novel tissue-restricted angiogenic factors regulate steroidogenic function. "A novel family of angiogenic mitogens have been recently characterized. Endocrine gland-derived vascular endothelial...

Spontaneous and iatrogenic ovarian hyperstimulation syndrome show differences.
May 3, 2004... 2004 MAY 3 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Spontaneous and iatrogenic ovarian hyperstimulation syndrome show differences. "The recent identification of mutations in the follicle stimulating hormone (FSH) receptor gene, which display an...

Chlorpyrifos may harm fetal neurodevelopment in mothers with low PON1 levels.
May 3, 2004... 2004 MAY 3 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Chlorpyrifos may harm fetal neurodevelopment in mothers with low PON1 levels. "Although the use of pesticides in inner-city homes of the United States is of considerable magnitude, little is known...

Genetic diversity causes COX-1 to compensate when COX-2 is suppressed.
May 3, 2004... 2004 MAY 3 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Genetic diversity causes COX-1 to compensate when COX-2 is suppressed. According to a study from the United States, "cyclooxygenase-2 (COX-2), an inducible rate-limiting enzyme in prostaglandin...

Maternal exposure to oxcarbazepine may impact the brains of offspring.
May 3, 2004... 2004 MAY 3 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Maternal exposure to oxcarbazepine may impact the brains of offspring. "Oxcarbazepine (OXC) is a widely used novel antiepileptic drug that has been available for routine prescription for 10 years....

Sacral-nerve stimulation could help counteract incontinence.
May 3, 2004... 2004 MAY 3 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Results of a small trial suggest that electrical stimulation of the sacral nerve could be a future treatment option for fecal incontinence. Anal incontinence affects an estimated 2% of the general...

Specific chromosomes may be linked to the age at which menopause commences.
May 3, 2004... 2004 MAY 3 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Specific chromosomes may be linked to the age at which menopause commences. According to published research from the The Netherlands, "age at natural menopause may be used as a parameter for...

P73 A4T14 genotype associated with cervical cancer risk.
May 3, 2004... 2004 MAY 3 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- P73 A4T14 genotype is associated with risk of cervical cancer. A "possible association between cervical cancer and p73 G4C14-to-A4T14 in exon 2 and p53 Arg72Pro polymorphisms" was examined in an...

Studies examine role of hormones in ovarian and endometrial cancers.
May 3, 2004... 2004 MAY 3 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- High levels of the growth factor insulin-like growth factor (IGF)-I can indicate increased risk of ovarian cancer before the age of 55, according to a study from Sweden. Annekatrin Lukanova,...

Exfoliated cervical cells may yield RNA for biomarker discovery.
May 3, 2004... 2004 MAY 3 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Exfoliated cervical cells may yield RNA for molecular epidemiology and biomarker discovery. "The biologic sample collected in molecular epidemiology studies must accurately reflect the disease being...

Fibrinolytic factors abound in the tissues of endometriosis patients.
May 3, 2004... 2004 MAY 3 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Fibrinolytic factors abound in the tissues of endometriosis patients. According to recent research from Sweden, "endometriotic tissue grows invasively. The plasminogen-activating system is suggested...

Levonorgestrel-releasing systems control excess menstrual bleeding.
May 3, 2004... 2004 MAY 3 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Levonorgestrel-releasing systems control excess menstrual bleeding. According to published research from Finland, "levonorgestrel-releasing intrauterine system (LNG-IUS) has been advocated as an...

Surfactant protein D in the female genital tract described.
May 3, 2004... 2004 MAY 3 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- The action of surfactant protein D in the female genital tract is described in a recent issue of Molecular Human Reproduction. According to recent research from Denmark, "Surfactant protein D...

Ultrasound triages women with acute or chronic pelvic pain.
May 3, 2004... 2004 MAY 3 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Ultrasound triages women with acute or chronic pelvic pain. "Pelvic pain (acute or chronic) is a common symptom in women of all ages. Ultrasonography is the least invasive investigative tool...

Women with uterine fibroids may lack CCN5 gene functionality.
May 3, 2004... 2004 MAY 3 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Women with uterine fibroids may lack CCN5 gene functionality. According to recent research from the United States, "uterine fibroids (leiomyomas) are a major women's health problem. Currently, the...

In utero AZT exposure has little or no impact on neurodevelopment.
May 3, 2004... 2004 MAY 3 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Exposure to the antiretroviral agent azidothymidine (AZT) in utero does not have a significant impact on neurodevelopment. AZT is "administered to pregnant women with HIV to prevent the spread of...

Heparin reverses preeclampsia in a factor V Leiden mutation carrier.
May 3, 2004... 2004 MAY 3 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Heparin reverses preeclampsia in factor V Leiden mutation carrier. "Inherited thrombophilias, suggested to be risk factors for ovarian hyperstimulation syndrome and known to be associated with...

The stillborn birth rate is high among Zimbabwean women.
May 3, 2004... 2004 MAY 3 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- The stillborn birth rate is high among Zimbabwean women. "Data on birth outcomes are important for planning maternal and child health care services in developing countries. Only a few studies have...

Judge dismisses Magee Pap smear lawsuit.
May 3, 2004... 2004 MAY 3 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- A lawsuit over how the University of Pittsburgh's Magee-Womens Hospital conducted Pap smear tests was dismissed on April 15, 2004, by a judge who found that the women involved suffered no physical harm....

Early urinary abnormalities are not reflected by later cadmium-induced toxicity.
May 3, 2004... 2004 MAY 3 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Early urinary abnormalities are not reflected by later cadmium-induced toxicity. According to recent research published in the journal Archives of Environmental Contamination and Toxicology, "this...

Nurses who train to be midwives offer more competency to women in Botswana.
May 3, 2004... 2004 MAY 3 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Nurses who train to be midwives offer more competency to women in Botswana. "This paper examines several key factors that determine nurses' ability to complete the Botswana Obstetric Record (BOR),...

Administrative data is acceptable for surveillance of elective Caesereans.
May 3, 2004... 2004 MAY 3 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Administrative data is okay for doing surveillance for elective Caesereans. "The caesarean delivery rate has become a commonly used measure intended to reflect the quality of obstetric care. At...

Less invasive tools offer timelier assessments of infertility problems.
May 3, 2004... 2004 MAY 3 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Less invasive tools offer timelier assessments of infertility problems. According to a study from Sweden, "an optimal initial infertility investigation protocol would be a process that is...

Women with aneurysmal rupture during pregnancy need multidisciplinary care.
May 3, 2004... 2004 MAY 3 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Women with aneurysmal rupture during pregnancy need multidisciplinary care. According to recent research published in the journal Acta Obstetricia Et Gynecologica Scandinavica, "cerebral aneurysmal...

Study pursues markers to improve ovarian cancer treatment, diagnosis.
May 3, 2004... 2004 MAY 3 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Identifying protein markers in the blood that indicate how ovarian cancer responds to therapy is one goal of a Medical College of Georgia pilot study. "We want to identify new, more specific markers...

Preventive practices eliminate the risk for congenital toxoplasmosis.
May 3, 2004... 2004 MAY 3 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Preventative practices eliminate the risk for congenital toxoplasmosis. "Congenital toxoplasmosis in humans is due to the infection of the fetus by Toxoplasma gondii (a protozoan parasite of...

The burden of socioeconomic inequality on health status begins before birth.
May 3, 2004... 2004 MAY 3 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- The burden of socioeconomic inequality on health status begins before birth. "Socioeconomic inequalities in the health of adults have been largely attributed to lifestyle inequalities. The cognitive...

Structure-function of extracellular calcium-sensing receptor described.
May 3, 2004... 2004 MAY 3 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- The structure-function relation of the extracellular calcium-sensing receptor has been described in a recent issue of the journal Cell Calcium. "The extracellular calcium-sensing receptor (CaR)...

Divisive abortion information on web site changed by Minnesota.
May 3, 2004... 2004 MAY 3 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- The Minnesota Health Department has dropped from its Web site controversial language suggesting a possible link between abortion and breast cancer. The new text, posted April 13, 2004, night, says...

New erectile dysfunction ad features explicit language.
May 3, 2004... 2004 MAY 3 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- She asks in a sultry voice if you want to know a secret. And when she spills the beans, she is quite explicit. The latest ad for an erectile dysfunction treatment is taking the battle for dominance in...

Perinatal neural stem cells have bidirectional stress-dependent plasticity.
May 3, 2004... 2004 MAY 3 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Perinatal neural stem cells have demonstrated bidirectional stress-dependent plasticity in animals. According to recent research from Canada, "[m]any of the effects of prenatal stress on the...

Gestational weight gain influenced postpartum weight retention.
May 3, 2004... 2004 MAY 3 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Gestational weight gain and prepregnancy weight influence postpartum weight retention in a cohort of Brazilian women. According to recent research from Brazil, "The objective of the study was to...

Pregnant women filling prescriptions for contraindicated drugs.
May 3, 2004... 2004 MAY 3 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Pregnant women enrolled in TennCare are filling prescriptions for contraindicated category X drugs. According to a study from the United States, "Filling of prescriptions for medications labeled as...

Report reinforces need for sex-specific medical research.
May 3, 2004... 2004 MAY 3 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- According to the Society for Women's Health Research (SWHR), pointing to a recent article in the Journal of the American Medical Association that called lung cancer "a contemporary epidemic" in women,...

Some infertile couples unaware of multiple birth risks.
May 10, 2004... 2004 MAY 10 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Multiple births - twins, triplets, or more babies in one pregnancy - have more risks of infant death and long-term disabilities such as cerebral palsy than births of single babies do. Many couples...

Solvent, common drug identified as endocrine disruptors.
May 10, 2004... 2004 MAY 10 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Researchers have identified an industrial solvent in the environment and a frequently prescribed drug, valproic acid, as compounds that so potently boost estrogen and progestin activity inside cells...

Dental X-rays during pregnancy associated with low-birth-weight babies.
May 10, 2004... 2004 MAY 10 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Pregnant women who are exposed to dental radiography may be more likely to give birth to an infant who weighs less than normal, researchers report. The link between radiation and low birth weight...

Midwives tend to have good outcomes with vaginal birth after cesarean section.
May 10, 2004... 2004 MAY 10 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Midwives tend to have good outcomes with vaginal birth after cesarean section. "A recent trend discouraging or not offering women a choice to labor after a cesarean birth has resulted in higher...

High blood pressure risk rises sharply with increased pre-pregnancy BMI.
May 10, 2004... 2004 MAY 10 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- A Magee-Womens Research Institute study of 1,179 pregnant women found the risk of preeclampsia, a leading cause of premature delivery and maternal and fetal death, rose sharply with even relatively...

Higher homocysteine levels in pregnant black women may be risk factor.
May 10, 2004... 2004 MAY 10 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Black women with pregnancy-induced high blood pressure have more homocysteine (an amino acid linked with atherosclerosis) and less folic acid in their blood than white women, a study from Magee-Womens...

Neonatal methamphetamine exposure has long-term effects on cognitive function.
May 10, 2004... 2004 MAY 10 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Neonatal methamphetamine exposure has long-term effects on cognitive function. "Methamphetamine (MA) is a commonly abused stimulant and because of its addictive properties, abusers may not cease...

Puerto Rican partners of adolescent mothers say fatherhood affirms identity.
May 10, 2004... 2004 MAY 10 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Puerto Rican partners of adolescent mothers say fatherhood affirms identity. According to recent research published in the Journal of Midwifery & Womens Health, "this study of the male partners of...

Acquired fecal incontinence can form many years after surgery or childbirth.
May 10, 2004... 2004 MAY 10 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Acquired fecal incontinence can form many years after surgery or childbirth. According to recent research from England, "acquired fecal incontinence arising in the non-elderly population is a...

State drops controversial language from web site suggesting abortion link.
May 10, 2004... 2004 MAY 10 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- The Minnesota Health Department has dropped from its web site controversial language suggesting a possible link between abortion and breast cancer. The new text, posted in mid-April 2004, says...

Moderate iron deficiency affects cognitive performance of young women.
May 10, 2004... 2004 MAY 10 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Young women who took iron supplementation for 16 weeks significantly improved their attention, short-term and long-term memory, and their performance on cognitive tasks, even though many were not...

Hormone modifications due to pregnancy may reduce colon cancer risk.
May 10, 2004... 2004 MAY 10 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Study shows that having children might reduce colon cancer risk for women. "If having children is regarded as an exposure in life, its effect on a host could be considered as being due to female...

FDA approval granted to make Essure at lower-cost site in Mexico.
May 10, 2004... 2004 MAY 10 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Conceptus, Inc., (CPTS) announced that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has granted approval for the company to begin manufacturing the Essure System at UTI Venusa, Ltd., in Ciudad Juarez,...

Cross-fostering to diabetic rat dams affects body weight regulation.
May 10, 2004... 2004 MAY 10 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Cross-fostering to diabetic rat dams affects early development of mediobasal hypothalamic nuclei regulating food intake, body weight, and metabolism. "Exposure to maternal gestational diabetes (GD)...

Repeated pregnancies in rats affect blood pressure regulation.
May 10, 2004... 2004 MAY 10 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Blood pressure regulation in multiparous rats is adversely affected, possibly increasing their risk of cardiovascular disease, according to a new study. The findings could have implications for...

Midwife training to spot abuse could form national model in U.K.
May 10, 2004... 2004 MAY 10 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- More instances of domestic violence would be disclosed if midwives were trained to ask appropriate questions of pregnant women, according to a detailed year-long study just completed in Bristol,...

Brief exposure to chlorpyrifos during neurulation affects brain development.
May 10, 2004... 2004 MAY 10 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Brief exposure to chlorpyrifos during neurulation affects brain development. According to recent research published in the journal Neurotoxicology and Teratology, "the widely used organophosphate...

Wisconsin governor vetoes bill protecting healthcare workers' conscience rights.
May 10, 2004... 2004 MAY 10 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Wisconsin's Gov. Jim Doyle vetoed legislation on April 21, 2004, that would have allowed healthcare professionals to decline to provide certain medical procedures, including in vitro fertilization, on...

Population policy in China influences the use of maternal health services.
May 10, 2004... 2004 MAY 10 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Population policy in China influences the use of maternal health services. "We use data from the nationally representative 1997 Demographic and Reproductive Health Survey to examine use of...

Experts agree to focus on range of disorders stemming from maternal drinking.
May 10, 2004... 2004 MAY 10 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Agreement among health experts in the U.S. on a definition of fetal alcohol disorders is a step toward assuring that victims of the condition will get treatment and services, the head of South Dakota's...

Difluoromethylornithine has few effects on body weight in rats.
May 10, 2004... 2004 MAY 10 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Developmental treatment with difluoromethylornithine has few effects on behavior or body weight in Sprague-Dawley rats. According to a study from the United States, "Developmental...

Exposure to cocaine generates oxidative stress in the fetal rat brain.
May 10, 2004... 2004 MAY 10 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Exposure to cocaine generates oxidative stress in the fetal rat brain. "Recent findings suggest that prenatal cocaine exposure results in significant attenuation of uterine and placental blood...

Transplacental exposure to 5-AZA-CdR affects behavior of male mice.
May 10, 2004... 2004 MAY 10 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Transplacental exposure to the DNA demethylating agent, 5-AZA-CdR, affects the sexual behavior of CD-1 male mice. According to recent research published in the journal Neurotoxicology,...

Cordless fetal transducer receives medical design award.
May 10, 2004... 2004 MAY 10 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Royal Philips Electronics (PHG) received the Medical Design Excellence Award (MDEA) from Canon Communications LLC for its obstetrical care surveillance system, the Philips Avalon CTS (Cordless...

Generic versions of pain medication, oral contraceptives launched.
May 10, 2004... 2004 MAY 10 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Andrx Corporation (ADRX) announced that it has commenced selling its bioequivalent version of Vicoprofen (hydrocodone bitartrate and ibuprofen, 7.5mg/200mg) tablets as well as Ortho Tri-Cyclen and...

West Virginia gubernatorial candidate releases women's health platform.
May 10, 2004... 2004 MAY 10 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Insurance companies and managed care organizations in West Virginia should be required to cover annual breast cancer screenings for women over 40 and pay for medically appropriate osteoporosis...

Cover the Uninsured Week is May 10-16, 2004.
May 10, 2004... 2004 MAY 10 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Doctors, patients, and other Americans are calling attention to the plight of the uninsured during Cover the Uninsured Week, May 10-16, 2004. Cover the Uninsured Week, sponsored by the Robert Wood...

Group comments on results of WHI estrogen-only study.
May 10, 2004... 2004 MAY 10 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- The Council on Hormone Education has released a statement commenting on the results from the conjugated equine estrogen (CEE)-only arm of the Women's Health Initiative (WHI), which were published in...

Vertical transmission of Cryptococcus neoformans reported.
May 10, 2004... 2004 MAY 10 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- The first known case of vertical Cryptococcus neoformans transmission has been reported. According to published research from Thailand, "[c]ryptococcal meningitis was diagnosed in a 92-day-old boy...

UNICEF says project in Rwanda registers high acceptance rate.
May 10, 2004... 2004 MAY 10 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- A pilot project in Rwanda on the prevention of mother-to-child HIV infection has registered a high rate of acceptance and has helped improve the chances of HIV positive mothers giving birth to HIV...

Genetic studies may reveal the cause of primary and secondary microcephaly.
May 10, 2004... 2004 MAY 10 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Genetic studies may reveal the cause of primary and secondary microcephaly. "Microcephaly is defined as a reduction in head circumference and this clinical finding infers that an individual has a...

Alcohol and other drugs stem brain development by causing neuronal suicide.
May 10, 2004... 2004 MAY 10 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Alcohol and other drugs stem brain development by causing neuronal suicide. According to a study from the United States, "when neuronal activity is abnormally suppressed during the developmental...

Serum granulysin is a Th1 marker during pre-eclampsia.
May 10, 2004... 2004 MAY 10 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Serum granulysin levels can be used to determine Th1 activity in women with pre-eclampsia. "Recent studies suggest that pre-eclampsia is associated with a Th1 predominant state and may be...