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Pregnancy Discrimination

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Yale Professor to Talk on Pregnancy Discrimination (UC Davis)

Jan. 17, Wednesday — Pregnancy discrimination will be the subject of a lecture at the UC Davis School of Law by William Eskridge Jr., a professor at Yale Law School. The endowed lecture on constitutional law is free and open to the public.

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Uterus Transplant May Enable Pregnancy

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Uterus Transplant May Enable Pregnancy (San Francisco Chronicle)

A New York hospital is taking steps to offer the nation’s first uterus transplant, a radical experiment that might allow women whose wombs were removed or are defective to bear children. The wombs would come from dead donors, just as most other organs…

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Cocaine use during pregnancy has lasting cellular effects

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Cocaine use during pregnancy has lasting cellular effects (New Kerala)

Washington, Jan 14 : A new study has found that though the “crack baby” hysteria of the 1980s was greatly exaggerated, using cocaine during pregnancy can nonetheless cause subtle but disabling cognitive impairments in kids.

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Pregnancy test gives doctors more time to detect condition that kills

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Pregnancy test gives doctors more time to detect condition that kills (Times Online)

A simple test for pregnant women could predict a serious complication weeks in advance. A team led by British scientists has developed the test for pre-eclampsia, which causes 22,000 maternal deaths worldwide every year….

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Home pregnancy tests

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P&G trying home pregnancy tests (The Cincinnati Enquirer)

Procter & Gamble Co. and Inverness Medical Innovations Inc. said Wednesday they had agreed to form a joint venture to develop, manufacture and market home pregnancy and fertility tests.

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Inflammatory bowel disease and pregnancy complications

posted by kasume in News-hand picked, Preganacy

Inflammatory bowel disease doubles risk of pregnancy complications (EurekAlert!)

Inflammatory bowel disease roughly doubles the chances of pregnancy complications, reveals research published ahead of print in Gut. Inflammatory bowel disease, or IBD for short, is an umbrella term for the inflammatory disorders of Crohn’s disease and ulcerative colitis.

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Labor and post-pregnancy sexual function

Labor may not harm post-pregnancy sexual function (Reuters)

Reuters – Though some women worry that labor and delivery will harm their sex life after pregnancy, a new study finds no evidence that childbirth itself affects a woman’s long-term sexual function.

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