Tag: Pregnancy
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Alarmingly low vitamin D levels in pregnant immigrant women
However, the study highlighted a stark contrast in average vitamin D levels between immigrant mothers and their Finnish counterparts, with immigrant women's levels alarmingly low. The study aimed to find out the connection between the low vitamin D concentration of immigrants during pregnancy and children's neurodevelopmental disorders. This survey was based on observations that children…
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Helena became pregnant – outside the womb
Helena was affected by the life-threatening phenomenon ectopic pregnancy. By: Mattias LindgrenProducer: Jonatan Loxdal & Gustav AsplundFinal mix: Astrid AnkarcronaThe reality is made by the production company Filt.
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Saarikko will not apply for a second term as chairman of the center
Saarikko, a 40-year-old member of parliament who served in the fourth election term from Finland proper, was elected to the leadership of the rural right-wing party in the second half of 2020. The center will elect its next chairman at the party meeting to be held in Jyväskylä in June. She told the press conference…
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Monday's papers: Pensions, pregnancy and pollen
Pensions will not necessarily be spared from cuts when the government aims for savings of one billion euros, Helsingin Sanomat says on Monday.
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The use of antidepressants during pregnancy increases
The use of antipsychotic drugs among expectant mothers is increasing in Finland.
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Overcoming labor anxiety: Support and understanding make a difference
Expectant mothers who experience childbirth fears often struggle with doubting their mental and physical abilities. In addition, many find it challenging to trust healthcare professionals, as personal anecdotes and stories read on social media platforms have contributed to increased fears. Antenatal anxiety overshadows pregnancy, leading to both psychological and physical symptoms. Left untreated, it can…
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Increased risk of asthma and allergies in babies born via caesarean section
Simultaneously, chronic immune-mediated non-communicable diseases and obesity have become more prevalent in Western countries over the past decades. The doctoral thesis of Henriina Hermansson, MD, who is defending her thesis at the University of Turku, demonstrates that individuals born via caesarean section were more prone to asthma, allergies, and obesity by the age of 21.…
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Obesity in pregnant women is associated with changes in low-grade inflammation, metabolism and gut microbiota
The results of Noora Houtu’s doctoral research show that obesity during pregnancy intensifies these changes, which can have harmful effects on the mother’s health. In the early stages of pregnancy, obese mothers had elevated low-grade inflammation and markers of lipid metabolism compared to overweight mothers. The gut microbiota also changed in obese individuals compared to…
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Succession finale: HBO’s epic family drama comes to an end
Warning: the following article contains spoilers. Succession, HBO’s searing indictment of late capitalism, has finally ended for good. And what an end. Warring siblings Kendall (Jeremy Strong), Shiv (Sarah Snook) and Roman (Kieran Culkin) reunite at their mother’s Caribbean retreat. The place is suitably lush, the fridge poorly stocked (their mother, far from the nurturing…
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EU countries oppose Ireland requiring alcohol health warnings
DUBLIN, Ireland: Ireland will become the first country in the world to require health warnings on all alcohol products. The new rules were signed by Ireland’s Health Minister Stephen Donnelly on Monday. New labels will have to include information about the health risks of drinking alcohol, as well as the calories in alcoholic beverages. But…
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Research: The Covid-19 pandemic increases the fear of childbirth
“Our results showed a really high fear of childbirth in our sample,” says the first author Zanet Thayer ’08, Assistant Professor of Anthropology at Dartmouth. “Because there is no pre-pandemic data in the US, we cannot compare our data to this context, but we do know that the numbers are very high compared to other…
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Study: Fear of childbirth intensified by the Covid-19 pandemic
Washington [US]May 15 (ANI): According to a new Dartmouth study, the Covid-19 epidemic increased expectant women’s anxiety about childbirth. The researchers were particularly interested in determining which factors predict childbirth fear in the United States and how the pandemic has changed this fear and birth outcomes. The research was published in the journals Evolution, Medicine,…
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Shortage of healthcare workers strongly linked to increased mortality: Study
Washington [US]May 11 (ANI): Shortages of health workers such as doctors, nurses and midwives are strongly linked to higher death rates, especially for certain diseases such as neglected tropical diseases and malaria, pregnancy and birth complications, diabetes and kidney disease, according to a study of 172 countries and territories published in The BMJ. The findings…
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Gender equality "300 years away": Chief of the UN
He also recalled cases where women’s rights were taken away and said that in Afghanistan, women have been erased from public life. He also stated that in many other places women’s sexual and reproductive rights were revoked. “In some countries, girls going to school are at risk of abduction and abuse. In others, the police…
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Pregnancy complications linked to increased risk of heart disease: Study
Washington [US]Feb 8 (ANI): Certain pregnancy problems increase the risk of heart disease later in life. However, much more research is needed to understand how atherosclerosis occurs between pregnancy and heart disease later in life. A new study led by Lund University researchers in Sweden shows that narrowing and calcification of the heart’s blood vessels…
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Scientists discover protein used by the parasite and how it changes the identity of immune cells
Stockholm [Sweden]November 5 (ANI): Toxoplasma is a parasite that affects the majority of people worldwide. Now scientists have discovered how this tiny parasite spreads so successfully throughout the body, including to the brain. After infection, the parasite takes over immune cells. The study was led by researchers at Stockholm University and published in the scientific…
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The gritty French novelist Annie Ernaux wins the Nobel Prize for Literature
French author Annie Ernaux, whose novels are based on personal experience of class and gender, has won the Nobel Prize for Literature. The jury praised “the courage and clinical acuity with which she reveals the roots, alienations and collective limitations of personal memory”. Ernaux is the author of 22 novels. Informed of the award, the…
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Frozen embryo transfers linked to high blood pressure risks during pregnancy
Dallas [US]Sep 26 (ANI): According to new research published today in Hypertension, a journal of the American Heart Association, in vitro fertilization (IVF) using frozen embryos may be associated with a 74% increased risk of hypertensive disorders during pregnancy. Pregnancies from fresh embryo transfers — transferring the fertilized egg immediately after in vitro fertilization (IVF)…
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Finland plans to ease abortion restrictions
Finland has the strictest abortion law in the Nordic countries, which requires the approval of two doctors to terminate a pregnancy. Legislation from the 1970s has been criticized as outdated.
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The Road Less Taken: Free to carry weapons, forced to carry children
When I read that the Supreme Court in the United States last month overturned a woman’s right to abortion, I had a familiar feeling in my stomach. It’s one I’ve gotten used to processing things that happen in America over the last few years: a feeling of fear, discomfort, confusion, and fear. An unwanted seed…
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Culture collection: Another good reason to ‘escape’ to West Jutland this summer
FLUGT, a new museum dedicated to the history of Danish-bound refugees in the small West Jutland town of Oksbøl, opens for the first time on Wednesday, and gives visitors the opportunity to see new buildings designed by Bjarke Ingels Group. On Friday, the inauguration of the building was attended by a large number of high-ranking…
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Patti Smith – poetry, rock and the art of survival
It’s a Monday in the middle of summer in 1967. At the bus terminal to New York stands a slender black-haired young girl. Despite the summer heat, she is wearing jeans, polo and a long gray raincoat she bought at the Salvation Army for this very occasion Patti is 20 years old and this moment…
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Restrictive abortion laws endanger Nigerian women
The word “abortion” is used to describe two types of pregnancies that end before 20 weeks, which is now considered the age of viability for a pregnancy. Spontaneous abortion takes place without the woman’s intention to stop the pregnancy, it is pregnancy loss before 20 weeks of gestation. Induced abortion is an intentional termination of…
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Europe can reverse its obesity "epidemic": WHO report
New data on obesity and overweight The report, released at a press conference on May 3 and presented at the European Obesity Congress, reveals that 59% of adults and almost one in three children (29% of boys and 27% of girls) in Europe are overweight. or live with obesity. The prevalence of adult obesity in…
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Applying for Kela’s first new parental benefit applications began yesterday
The family leave reform introduces three new parental benefits, known separately as special pregnancy allowance, maternity allowance and parental allowance. Parents who are expecting a child on or after 4 September 2022 and parents who adopt a child who will be taken into their care on or after 31 July 2022 are eligible for support.…
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Petra Mede about the pregnancy: It is very much anticipated
Petra Mede: The pregnancy is very much awaited
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Jonna Bornemark – about philosophy, pregnancy and language
In Swedish Radio’s Sunday interview, you meet the person behind the public mask in journalism’s most basic form – the interview. The host is Martin Wicklin. Producer: Hannah Engberg. Contact: [email protected] About Jonna Bornemark Professor of philosophy who works as a researcher and teacher at the Center for Practical Knowledge at Södertörn University. Jonna Bornemark…
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Exposure to chemical mixtures during pregnancy affects brain development: Study
Karlstad [Sweden], February 21 (ANI): Does exposure to chemicals during pregnancy affect a child? Researchers provided evidence that complex mixtures of endocrine disrupting chemicals affect children’s brain development and language learning, by linking human population studies with experiments in cell and animal models. With their new approach, researchers have shown that up to 54 percent…
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The risks after treatment for cervical neoplasia decreased over time, the study says
Solna [Sweden]February 8 (ANI): WHO found that cervical cancer is the fourth most common form of cancer among women globally, with an estimated 604,000 new cases and 342,000 deaths by 2020. Treatment of severe prodromal cervical cancer, CIN3, can cause problems during later pregnancy among women in childbirth age. A new registry study showed a…