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Study Finds Women With Rheumatoid Arthritis Have Issues Conceiving
According to MSNBC, a study by the Children’s Hospital Oakland Research Institute in Oakland California found that rheumatoid arthritis may hinder conception in some women. The study published in the journal Arthritis & Rheumatism, included 68,000 Danish women who became pregnant between 1996 and 2002, of those 112 had been diagnosed with rheumatoid arthritis before pregnancy. The lead researcher Dr. Damini Jawaheer said that women who are trying to become pregnant are often told to stop using disease-modifying anti-rheumatic drugs such as methotrexate and infliximab as some can cause birth defects. The research team said it is unclear if the condition or stopping medication causes a flare-up in rheumatoid arthritis that somehow hinders a woman’s ability to conceive. In general, women with rheumatoid arthritis take longer to conceive and are less likely to get pregnant within 2 months of trying. During the study, 48 percent of women without RA conceived…
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Study Finds No Acupuncture Benefit to Women in Labor
According to MSNBC, a study published in the obstetrics journal BJOG found evidence that acupuncture may not ease the pain of childbirth. The findings found that among 105 first-time moms having labor induction showed no benefit from acupuncture given to them before contractions started. The study warns new moms-to-be that acupuncture may not be the answer for a drug-free labor. Out of 105 first-time moms, two-thirds ended up requesting epidural pain medication during labor compared to 56 percent of women who received a placebo version of the procedure and 77 percent of those given no acupuncture treatment at all. This study followed two research studies in South Korea and the UK, which analyzed 10 previous clinical trials of acupuncture for labor pain and found no evidence that the procedure eases pain during birthing. The lead researcher on the current study said that he believed overwhelming research done by different groups…
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Study Finds Iron Benefits Not Significant for Some Pregnant Women
According to MSNBC, a recent study found that taking iron supplements does not have as significant benefit for pregnant women who don’t already have iron-poor blood. The study in the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition found that anemic pregnant women boosted their iron levels by taking supplements but the women who had higher levels to begin with did not see any extra boost. Iron is essential to making hemoglobin, the component of red blood cells that carries oxygen throughout the body. A pregnant woman’s iron needs rise as her body produces greater volumes of blood for her and the fetus. A professor of human nutrition at Cornell University said that the gut senses when the body needs iron, and through gut responses the body absorbs iron better. According to the World Health Organization, fewer than one in five pregnant women in the U.S. were anemic in 2005. In other countries,…
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