Latest miscarriage Stories

Campaign advocates need for education and action for mothers and babies affected by Hyperemesis Gravidarum (HG), a frequently misdiagnosed pregnancy disease WASHINGTON, May 9, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Recently put in international spotlight by the hospitalization of mom-to-be Kate Middleton, Duchess of Cambridge, pregnancy disease Hyperemesis Gravidarum (HG) is the focus of HG Awareness Day on May 15. Sponsored by the HER Foundation (www.helpher.org), HG Awareness Day will bring...

Subfertile women who conceive through assisted reproduction are more likely to experience a greater traumatic impact following early pregnancy loss compared with women who conceive naturally, suggests a new study published today (1 May) in BJOG: An International Journal of Obstetrics and Gynaecology. Miscarriage is the most common complication of pregnancy affecting 20% of all clinically recognized pregnancies. This study, conducted at Queen Mary Hospital, The University of Hong Kong,...

For women with abdominal pain or vaginal bleeding during early pregnancy, patient history and clinical examination alone are insufficient to indicate or eliminate the possibility of ectopic pregnancy, while transvaginal sonography appears to be the single best diagnostic method for evaluating suspected ectopic pregnancy, according to an analysis of previous studies reported in the April 24 issue of JAMA. The rapid identification and accurate diagnosis of women who may have an ectopic...

Lee Rannals for redOrbit.com – Your Universe Online The walls of the human heart develop slower than other mammals, according to a new study published in Journal of the Royal Society Interface Focus. Researchers developed the first comprehensive model of human heart development using observations of living fetal hearts. Human hearts have walls that are a disorganized jumble of tissue until late in pregnancy, despite having the shape of a fully functioning heart. During the study,...

Personal Injury Law Firm Offers No Win - No Fee Promise For Clients Injured from the anti-depressant drug Effexor, which allegedly has been linked to increased depression and severe birth defects. (PRWEB) January 26, 2013 The Personal Injury Lawyers at d'Oliveira & Associates are currently seeking clients who experienced a worsening of depression symptoms, miscarriages, or birth defects while taking the anti-depressant drug Effexor. The firm is working with some of the leading...

Researchers at Imperial and Warwick find molecules that appear to function abnormally in women who have suffered repeated miscarriages. Scientists have identified molecular signals that control whether embryos are accepted by the womb, and that appear to function abnormally in women who have suffered repeated miscarriages. The research, carried out at Imperial College London and the University of Warwick, suggests these signals could be targets for drugs that would help prevent...

DENVER, Oct. 23, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- A recent study by the Colorado Center for Reproductive Medicine (CCRM) has found that a new technique that examines all 23 pairs of chromosomes in a human blastocyst (day five embryo), known as comprehensive chromosome screening (CCS), is an effective clinical treatment for unexplained recurrent miscarriages. Miscarriage is a relatively common occurrence affecting roughly one in five pregnancies. However, only one to two percent of...

Single, non-invasive test can rule out a viable pregnancy Research: Accuracy of single progesterone test to predict early pregnancy outcome in women with pain or bleeding: meta-analysis of cohort studies Measuring progesterone levels in women with pain or bleeding during early pregnancy is a useful way to help discriminate between a viable and a non-viable pregnancy, finds a study published on bmj.com today. The results suggest that a low level of progesterone in these women can rule...

SPRINGFIELD, Ill., Sept. 5, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- A new study of the medical records for nearly half a million women in Denmark reveals significantly higher maternal death rates following abortion compared to delivery. This finding has confirmed similar population studies conducted in Finland and the United States, but contradicts the widely held belief that abortion is safer than childbirth. By linking records from Denmark's fertility and abortion registries to death registry...

One of the largest studies to look at the effect of induced abortions on a subsequent first birth has found that women who have had three or more abortions have a higher risk of some adverse birth outcomes, such as delivering a baby prematurely and with a low birth weight. The research, which is published online in Europe's leading reproductive medicine journal Human Reproduction today (Thursday), found that among 300,858 Finnish mothers, 31,083 (10.3%) had had one induced abortion between...