Archive for April, 2011

Nobel Prize Winner for In Vitro Fertilization

Posted on April 18, 2011 by tshahan

Nobel Prize for IVF PioneerIn October of 2010 the scientific community was informed that British biologist Robert G. Edwards, PhD was to be awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or…

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Twin Pregnancies and the Panoply of Costs

Posted on April 04, 2011 by tshahan

The Truth About TwinsTraci Shahan, RN, WHNP-BC, CNS, NDLast week on NPR, I heard a blurb about the less glamorous, more serious unwanted and unintended effects of having twins.  This…

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Are Pregnancy Loss and Cardiovascular Disease linked?

Posted on April 04, 2011 by tshahan

Pregnancy loss and risk of cardiovascular disease: a prospective population-based cohort study (EPIC-Heidelberg), Kharazmi et.al., Heart  97:49-54, 2011.These investigators set out to examine whether pregnancy loss (miscarriage, abortion or stillbirth)…

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