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Watch the Baby Weight
For many women, the extra calories that are vital for a healthy pregnancy often become a green light to indulge and give into cravings.

Smoking during pregnancy up obesity and diabetes risk in baby girls
Washington, May 21 (ANI): Women who smoke during pregnancy increase the risk of both obesity and gestational diabetes, in their daughters, a recent study has found.

AXA PPP healthcare Launch Health Assessment Competition on Facebook
AXA PPP healthcare is giving Facebook followers the chance to win a health assessment worth over £400.

What Are the Odds Your Kid Will Be Obese?
There’s plenty of research out there showing that too often parents are blind to their child’s weight problem. They simply don’t see it. Or they rationalize it away.

Excessive weight gain during pregnancy increases lacerations risk
New York, May 18 : Excessive weight gain during pregnancy significantly increases the risk of lacerations during vaginal childbirth, according to a study conducted by researchers at Montefiore Medical Center.

Excessive weight gain during pregnancy increases risk of lacerations during childbirth
Excessive weight gain during pregnancy significantly increases the risk of lacerations during vaginal childbirth, according to a new study. Among more than 1,000 women who participated in the study, 126 experienced a significant increase in their body mass index (BMI), both +1 and +2 category changes, according to the criteria established by the World Health Organization (WHO). Of those women ...

Investigation into baby's death
An investigation by Queensland Health Minister Lawrence Springborg has been launched into how a pregnant woman lost her unborn child after she was repeatedly turned away from a Rockhampton hospital.

Central Qld woman speaks of baby death ordeal
A woman allegedly turned away repeatedly from a central Queensland hospital, leading to the loss of her unborn baby, says she hopes no-one else has to endure a similar experience.

Investigation widens into baby's death at Rockhampton Hospital
Queensland Health Minister Lawrence Springborg has ordered an investigation into claims a full-term pregnant woman was turned away from Rockhampton Hospital by staff who knew her unborn son had died.

Local Guyanese battle diabetes
Local Guyanese battle diabetes Times Union Copyright 2013 Times Union. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed. Published 8:21 pm, Sunday, May 19, 2013 Almost a third of the city's 8,000 Guyanese residents have the chronic condition marked by high blood sugar, recent studies show. Several Schenectady doctors began noticing an unusually ...