National Birth Defects Prevention Month Sponsor: The National Birth Defects Prevention Network National Birth Defects Prevention Month is a time to raise awareness of birth defects and promote healthy pregnancies. A birth defect is a problem that happens while a baby is developing in the mother’s body. One out of every 33 babies in the […]

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Researchers report two advances against preeclampsia Preeclampsia, a sudden-onset and sometimes fatal prenatal disease, may strike up to 8 percent of pregnant women worldwide. Researchers have now developed a dependable pregnancy-specific animal model for laboratory testing and may have a predictive test that would allow early intervention. The studies are reported in The American Journal […]

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