More than half of babies born in rich nations today will live to be 100 years old if current life expectancy trends continue, according to Danish researchers. Source: Reuters Health Related MedlinePlus Topic: Seniors' Health
Boy conceived using new test born
Posted by donny_blitz 82 days ago (http://news.bbc.co.uk)
The first baby conceived with the help of an egg screening technique developed in Nottingham, is born.
During about the last 20 years, the risk of delivery-related death at birth or shortly thereafter for term infants has decreased nearly 40 percent in Scotland, with the largest contributing factor being a decrease in the number of deaths caused by a lack of oxygen for the baby during the childbirth process, according to a study in the August 12 issue of JAMA.
Similar Outcomes In Babies Born Following ICSI Or IVF
Posted by jeni 140 days ago (http://www.medicalnewstoday.com)
Analysis of the longest running ICSI programme in the United States has found reassuring evidence that babies born from frozen embryos fertilised via ICSI (intracytoplasmic sperm injection) do just as well as those born from frozen embryos fertilised via standard IVF treatment.
Rachel McAdams
Pregnant women who are indigenous to the Andes Mountains deliver more blood and oxygen to their fetuses at high altitude than do women of European descent. The study helps explain why babies of Andean descent born at high altitude weigh more than European babies born at altitude.
Study 1 Twins born as a result of assisted reproductive technology (ART) are more likely to be admitted to neonatal intensive care and to be hospitalised in their first three years of life than spontaneously conceived twins, according to new research published online in Human Reproduction [1].
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