Local News: Dublin, TX 

 | 

Sign Up

 | 

Sign In

Advertisment

Anencephaly News Editors

RoboBlogger

I edit this news page on Topix when no humans are available to help.

People just like you make Anencephaly News on Topix better every day. If you're interested in becoming an editor, apply today!

Edits History | Editor Blog

RSS icon mobile icon

Anencephaly News

News on Anencephaly continually updated from thousands of sources around the net.

Sunday Dec 6 | The Huffington Post

Ellen Malcolm: The heart of the health care debate on abortion

Politics is dangerously personal for women right now. The Washington Post featured an article earlier this week about one woman's struggle to obtain the care she needed.

Comment?

Related Topix: Abortion, Health

Sun Nov 29, 2009

The Wichita Eagle

Aiden Edward Harley lived only 51 minutes, but for family and friends his time was

Newborn Aiden had made the rounds, passed from great-aunt to grandpa to friend, and was back in his mother's arms when Steve Friesen came into the delivery room at Newton Medical Center.

Comment?

Related Topix: 9, Health

Sat Nov 28, 2009

Tallahassee.com

My View: Zygote fanatics push Personhood Amendment

According to legend, one night in 1775, Paul Revere made his famous ride and shouted, 'The British are coming! The British are coming!' inspiring the Sons of Liberty to action.

Comment?

Related Topix: Florida, Abortion, Health, Florida Government

Mon Nov 16, 2009

Cleveland.com

CDC study shouldn't rule out antibiotics for pregnant women, doctor says

A recent Centers for Disease Control and Prevention study on the association between antibiotics and certain birth defects may be a bit unsettling to pregnant women.

Comment?

Related Topix: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Medicine, Obstetrics and Gynecology, Pneumonia, Health, Nitrofurantoin (generic), Macrobid, Medication

Sun Nov 15, 2009

Taipei Times

War brings a surge of birth defects in Fallujah s children

Doctors and parents tell of huge growth in abnormalities in children of a city that saw some of the fiercest fighting X and largest quantities of munitions X of the conflict in Iraq By Martin Chulov THE GUARDIAN , FALLUJAH, IRAQ Sunday, Nov 15, 2009, Page 13 Now, believe me, it s like we are treating patients immediately after Hiroshima.

Comment?

Related Topix: Iraq, World News, Middle East, Medicine, Obstetrics and Gynecology, Health

Fri Nov 13, 2009

Guardian Unlimited

Mariam Yasir, 6, who suffers from a birth defect, cries as her mother carries her in Falluja

'My baby was blind. She couldn't eat or speak. I mourn for her' a ' families' heartache over Falluja birth defects Doctors and parents tell of huge growth in abnormalities in children of city that saw some of the fiercest fighting a ' and largest quantities of munitions a ' of the Iraq war Zainab Abdul Latif with her six-year-old daughter Mariam.

Comment?

Related Topix: Health

Thu Nov 12, 2009

Corpus Christi Caller-Times

Watching for maternal diabetes

Obesity and pregnancy increases health risks to both mother and the unborn child.

Comment?

Related Topix: Diabetes, Insulin (generic), Humulin, Novolin

Wed Nov 04, 2009

Journal Watch - Medicine that Matters

Sulfonamides and Nitrofurantoins Linked to Birth Defects

Patients may ask about a widely reported, case-control study suggesting that certain antibacterial drugs, including sulfonamides and nitrofurantoins, are associated with increased risk for birth defects.

Comment?

Related Topix: Pediatrics, Medicine, Health

Tue Nov 03, 2009

Archives General Psychiatry

this Month in Archives of Pediatrics & Adolescent Medicine: This...

This Month in Archives of Pediatrics & Adolescent Medicine Arch Pediatr Adolesc Med.

Comment?

Related Topix: Pediatrics, Medicine, Health, Epinephrine (generic), Epipen, Medication

Middletown Journal

CDC Study Links 2 Antibiotics to Birth Defects

Taking antibiotics during pregnancy does not raise the risk for most birth defects, though there are some exceptions, new research has found.

Comment?

Related Topix: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Health

Tue Oct 27, 2009

KMPH-TV Fresno

Folic acid facts: what every woman should know

Many women know that taking folic acid can help prevent birth defects. But did you know that all women of childbearing age should be taking it even if they're not pregnant or thinking about it? Awareness of folic acid and its benefits is improving.

Comment?

Related Topix: Medicine, Folvite, Folic Acid (generic), Medication

Fri Oct 16, 2009

KYTV Springfield

Family hopes loss of child can minister to others

Thousands around the world spent Thursday night, October 15, remembering. Remembering the children they lost through miscarriage and still birth or at a young age on Pregnancy and Infant Loss Remembrance Day.

Comment?

Related Topix: Springfield Metro, Health

Sun Sep 20, 2009

Catholic.net

What makes a Family?

Lily Barreto's world seemed to crumble upon learning of her unborn child's terminal illness.

Comment?

Related Topix: Health

Sun Aug 30, 2009

O-R Online

Parents honor memory of their newborns

" Brad and Shawna Leighty smiled through the tears as they counted 10 tiny toes and 10 little fingers, a bittersweet moment, they say, that will be etched in their hearts forever.

Comment?

Related Topix: Health, Pittsburgh Metro

Sat Aug 15, 2009

KOLD-TV Tucson

Low choline level in pregnancy tied to birth defects

Low blood levels of the nutrient choline during pregnancy increases the risk of brain and spinal-cord defects in newborns, U.S. researchers report.

Comment?

Related Topix: Health

Fri Aug 14, 2009

Stanford University School of Medicin...

Low choline levels in pregnant women raise babies' risk for brain and ...

A newborn's risk for brain and spinal-cord defects rises if the mother has low blood levels of the nutrient choline during pregnancy, researchers at the Stanford University School of Medicine have discovered.

Comment?

Related Topix: Stanford University, Health, Folvite, Folic Acid (generic), Medication

Wed Aug 12, 2009

Health News Digest

Low Choline Levels in Pregnant Women Raise Babies' Risk for Brain and Spinal-Cord Defects

STANFORD, Calif. - A newborn's risk for brain and spinal-cord defects rises if the mother has low blood levels of the nutrient choline during pregnancy, researchers at the Stanford University School of Medicine have discovered.

Comment?

Related Topix: Stanford, CA, Startups, Stanford University, Health, Medicine, Folvite, Folic Acid (generic), Medication, Life, Food, Nutrition

Tue Jul 21, 2009

Sify

Infant born with brain outside skull

A girl was born here on Monday with her brain outside the skull and the placenta attached to the back of the head, a condition termed as 'very rare' by the attending doctors, and died later.

Comment?

Related Topix: Health

Mon Jun 22, 2009

DFW Catholic

Father to Vivian

My wife and I learned during Holy Week that our daughter in the womb has a fatal condition called anencephaly; since then we have struggled to share with Vivian the little bit of life she has.

Comment?

Related Topix: Health

Sun Jun 21, 2009

Press & Sun-Bulletin

Learn all facts

I recently read an article online about one of Dr. George Tiller's patients who had a late-term abortion because her child had anencephaly, meaning that the child had little to no brain.

Comment?

Related Topix: Health, US Politics, US News, Barack Obama

Also on Topix