Topic: 5 Top Tips for Handling Pregnancy Aches and Pains You might be surprised to learn that headaches are very common in pregnancy. Nearly 1 in 5 pregnant women has a migraine at some point during pregnancy. Hormonal changes in pregnancy cause increased blood volume, including around the brain. This can trigger frequent, mild headaches.…
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Topic: Exposure to pollution during pregnancy is linked to asthma in preschoolers Exposure to particulate matter (PM2.5) pollution during pregnancy is linked to asthma in preschoolers, according to a new study published in the journal American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine. Researchers from the Mount Sinai School of Medicine looked at 376 mothers…
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Topic: Can Changing Your Diet Reduce Your Risk of Breast Cancer? Many “anti-cancer” diets have been proposed but none have been clinically demonstrated to actually reduce the risk of developing cancer. An unhealthy weight has long been known to increase the risk of chronic conditions such as diabetes and heart disease, and there is increasing…
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Topic: COVID-19 puts spotlight on disparities in research on women’s health When Katharine Lee, a postdoctoral research fellow at Washington University in St. Louis, and Kathryn Clancy, an associate professor of anthropology at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, each say they experienced unexpected menstrual cycles after receiving the COVID-19 vaccine, they did what researchers do…
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Topic: Mental health and pregnancy: ‘I couldn’t hold my baby for more than a minute’ Seaneen Molloy was excited to discover she was expecting her second baby during lockdown. With a history of mental illness, she carefully planned the pregnancy, but when her baby arrived she experienced the “terrifyingly rapid” onset of a crisis which…
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Topic: Your Guide To Hiking During Pregnancy “Make sure you don’t lift heavy things. And don’t bend over to pick anything up.” This advice from my husband’s grandmother didn’t seem very practical. But I was a first-time mom pregnant with twins and I wanted her to at least know that I appreciated her concern. Less…
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Topic: How Is Melasma Treated During Pregnancy? Your body goes through tremendous changes during pregnancy. Your belly gets larger and your blood volume increases as your baby grows. You may experience cramping, morning sickness, and all sorts of unfamiliar aches and pains. Your hair and skin may also go through a transformation for the better…
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Topic: Doctors Forgot to Warn People With Breasts That the Covid Vaccine Could Affect Their Next Mammogram “So let me tell you about this medical scare I’ve been having for the last few days,” was the opening line from my mother during our bi-weekly FaceTime call. Like countless women, she’d gone in for her annual…
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Topic: Work and social strain increase women’s risk of coronary heart disease According to a new study, the combined effect of stress from social interactions and paid work increases women’s likelihood of developing coronary heart disease (CHD) by 21%. The study also found that high stress life events were linked with a 12% increase in…
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Topic: Higher BMI in childhood may help protect women against breast cancer in later life, both before and after the menopause A study of more than 173,000 women in Denmark, presented at the European Congress on Obesity (ECO) held online this year, suggests that girls with a higher body mass index (BMI) during childhood are…
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