The United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) has said that no fewer than 110 women die daily in Nigeria as a result of pregnancy related causes. The fund disclosed this on Wednesday through its Programme Coordinator and Head of Office, Maryama Darboe, in her goodwill message at a one-day CSO Dialogue Meeting on Maternal Health Accountability […]
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New evidence from fetal brain scans has shown that a mother’s stress during pregnancy can change the neural connectivity in the brain of her unborn child, potentially affecting the baby’s brain functions. Moriah Thomason, an assistant professor of Wayne State University, presented this new finding on Monday at the 25th meeting for the Cognitive Neuroscience […]
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A 29-year-old virgin has revealed why she got pregnant without sleeping with a man. The Canadian, who gave only her first name as Lauren, revealed that she doesn’t care much about dating any man. She also revealed that she grew up with a gland disorder that affects her body’s hormone production. This made her to […]
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Chinese scientists have made a breakthrough in infertility treatment that enables young women with damaged reproductive organs to have children. NAN reports that regenerative medicine experts at the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) and doctors at Nanjing Drum Tower Hospital have successfully used human umbilical cord mesenchyme stem cells to rehabilitate a woman’s damaged ovary. This […]
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Drinking alcohol during pregnancy can subtly influence the way a baby’s face is formed, researchers have found. The finding includes even drinking at low levels such as the occasional drink. Using a 3D facial analysis, features observed were subtle and not visible to the naked eye, being less than 2mm. However, the researchers did observe […]
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