- Elizabeth Warren's Pregnancy Story is Unbelievable—If You've Never Known a Pregnant Woman in America https://www.thedailybeast.com/elizabeth-warrens-pregnancy-story-is-unbelievable-if-youve-never-known-a-pregnant-woman-in-america?ref=home 9 comments politics
- Researchers find improved method for treating rare, aggressive, pregnancy-related cancer | Drug nanocarrier known as a polymersome targets a protein in cells responsible for choriocarcinoma https://www.eurekalert.org/news-releases/1072783 2 comments science
- Exercise during pregnancy reduces obesity among offspring. Researchers found exercise during pregnancy stimulates the production of brown adipose tissue, commonly known as brown fat, in a developing fetus. Brown fat's primary role in the body is to burn off heat. It is often called good fat. https://advances.sciencemag.org/content/6/16/eaaz0359 109 comments science
- Exercise during pregnancy reduces obesity among offspring - "Researchers found exercise during pregnancy stimulates the production of brown adipose tissue, commonly known as brown fat, in a developing fetus. Brown fat's primary role in the body is to burn off heat. It is often called good fat." https://news.wsu.edu/2020/04/17/exercise-pregnancy-reduces-obesity-among-offspring/ 142 comments science
- Vaccinating pregnant women for COVID seems to give future protection to babies.When a mother passes antibodies to her child, it’s known as passive immunity, and this can be generated by a mother being vaccinated or infected during pregnancy. It happens with COVID as it does with many other diseases. https://theconversation.com/vaccinating-mothers-during-pregnancy-protects-their-babies-from-covid-177480 1094 comments science
- Vaccinating pregnant women for COVID seems to give future protection to babies.When a mother passes antibodies to her child, it’s known as passive immunity, and this can be generated by a mother being vaccinated or infected during pregnancy. It happens with COVID as it does with many other diseases. https://theconversation.com/vaccinating-mothers-during-pregnancy-protects-their-babies-from-covid-177480 2 comments science
- Endocrine disrupting chemicals may influence hormonal shifts during pregnancy and contribute to postpartum depression. Postpartum depression affects up to 1 in 5 women. Bisphenols and phthalates, found in plastics and personal care products, are known to affect sex hormones. https://academic.oup.com/jcem/advance-article-abstract/doi/10.1210/clinem/dgab199/6189805 3 comments science
- U.N. peacekeepers fathered then abandoned hundreds of children in Haiti, report says. I Add: UN peace soldiers made children with children and the organisation repatriated the soldiers when pregnancy was known. No mention of any felony charges, just financial support . https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2019/12/18/un-peacekeepers-fathered-then-abandoned-hundreds-children-haiti-report-says/?hpid=hp_hp-more-top-stories_haiti-1025pm%3Ahomepage%2Fstory-ans 3 comments politics
- British Columbia has announced it will pay for the so-called abortion pill starting Jan. 15, becoming the sixth province to provide free access to the drug. Mifegymiso, also known as RU-486, can be used to terminate a pregnancy in the first nine weeks, the government said in a news release Tuesday. https://www.thestar.com/news/canada/2018/01/02/bc-to-pay-for-abortion-pill-becoming-sixth-province-to-provide-free-access.html 73 comments worldnews
- In the future, a dose of this hormone may end nausea in pregnancy | Little is known about why pregnant women become severely nauseous, requiring hospitalization. Now, a new study offers hope with a hormone called GDF15. https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-023-06921-9 3 comments science
- Higher vitamin D levels in mothers during pregnancy could help babies become stronger: Low vitamin D status has been linked to reduced muscle strength in adults and children, but little is known about how variation in a mother’s status during pregnancy affects her child http://www.southampton.ac.uk/mediacentre/news/2014/jan/14_01.shtml#.usflsfqw2pt 361 comments science
- Unique genes in Khoe-San people may lower risk of some pregnancy hazards: An unusual mutation in an immune system gene switches a receptor from one target molecule to another. It’s the first known example of such a change, say Stanford researchers, and likely leads to safer pregnancies. http://med.stanford.edu/news/all-news/2015/08/unique-genes-in-khoe-san-people-may-lower-risk-of-some-pregnancy.html 11 comments science