Pregnancy and Birth
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- March of Dimes
- Resources for reducing infant morality and birth defects. Offers a health library, research, programs and a donation form.
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- Newborn Screening.Com
- Regularly updated information and news pertaining to testing and screening. Explanation as to what it is, condition profiles, lab profiles and a discussion forum.
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- Save Babies Through Screening Foundation, Inc.
- A non-profit voluntary organization whose mission is to improve the lives of babies by preventing mental retardation and death resulting from disorders detectable through newborn screening.
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- Texas Office for Prevention of Developmental Disabilities
- Attempting to minimize the economic and human losses in Texas caused by preventable disabilities. Includes details of task forces, services and resources.
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- The Pregnancy Risk Network
- Offers free telephone information about possible effects that medications, alcohol, illness, on children.
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- The primary prevention of birth defects: Multivitamins or folic acid?
- Study of large clinical trials that found multivitamins containing folic acid are more effective at preventing neural tube defects than high dose folic acid supplements. (March 20, 2004)
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- Fetal Medicine @ Brown
- Offers fetal surgery and other treatment for fetal defects at Women and Infants' Hospital in Providence, Rhode Island. Includes information for patients, students and medical professionals.
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- Jessica's Trust
- A campaign to raise awareness of childbed fever (puerperal sepsis), a potentially fatal uterine infection after childbirth. Includes details of the condition and personal accounts.
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- Medical Risks of Epidural Anaesthesia during Childbirth
- This site explores the risks undertaken when choosing an epidural for pain management.
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- Obstetric Diseases and Conditions
- General Practice Notebook, offering a list of complications and information on each.
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- Perinatal Hospice.org
- Resources for families choosing to continue a pregnancy following prenatal testing that indicates the baby has a terminal condition.
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- Pregnancy Sickness Support
- Uk charity offering support and advice for sufferers and carers of sufferers with pregnancy induced nausea and vomiting. Includes facts and figures, coping tips and news.
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- Protect Your Unborn Baby
- Important food safety information about listeria and T. gondii to help avoid miscarriage.
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- PND Productions
- A Postnatal Depression (PND) video and CD ROM for health care professionals and parents dealing with the postnatal depression and its effects. Produced by PND counsellor, Liz Wise.