BACKGROUND & OBJECTIVE Measles and Rubella Control Campaign was conducted in Iran in December 2003 targeting both males and females 5 to 25 yr old using measles-rubella vaccine. During the campaign, some pregnant women received vaccine during the first trimester of pregnancy or some others became pregnant shortly thereafter. The goal of this study was to evaluate the risk of congenital rubella ...

Taking present-day research into so-called new momism and intense mothering as a starting point, this article argues that the current mothering discourse, rather than articulating a new phenomenon, perpetuates a regulative discourse developed in the nineteenth century, in advice books written by medical doctors for pregnant women and new mothers. Both the Victorian and the present-day texts pla...

the purpose of this study was to determine the effects of feeding iron-deficient diet during pregnancy and lactation on maternal rats. a total number of 64 rats were divided into 4 groups (pregnant), (non pregnant), (lactating) and (non lactating) with 16 animals in each group. parameters used to evaluate the effects of dietary iron deficiency on the maternal animals were: iron contents of live...

ed from the report on this collaborative study published by the Indian Council of Medical Research, New Delhi, 1994. The Principal Investigators for this s t u d y w e r e : D e l h i C S C h u t t a n i , Chandigarh-G.I. Dhall, Gwalior-A.K. Govila, Lucknow-P.K. Misra, Varanasi-A. Prakash, Pune-V.N. Rao, Jaipur—R. Sharma, Ahmedabad-L.B. Trivedi. sive package of interventions for improving the m...

BACKGROUND Iron supplementation is a common recommendation for pregnant women to prevent iron deficiency during pregnancy. There is an increasing concern about excessive iron consumption as a general iron prophylaxis by pregnant women without any due consideration about their dietary iron intake or iron status. Our present study investigated the association between total iron intake from diet a...

BACKGROUND The increasing incidence of pertussis among adolescents and adults in recent years is an alarming factor in transmission of the infection to non-immune infants and children. Vaccination of pregnant women, immediately after delivery and before being discharged from the hospital may help to protect mothers and their newborns against the disease. Decision making process, regarding mater...

Throughout pregnancy and into the immediate postpartum period, women are generally perceived to be incompetent, stressed, forgetful. However, neuropsychological “baby brain” literature remains unclear contradictory. Across two studies, we provide first experimental tests of whether cognitive impairment in can explained by stereotype threat theory, which proposes that awareness negative stereoty...

To study the effect of diabetes on hepatic protein synthesis and polysomal aggregation in pregnant rats, female rats were treated with streptozotocin prior to conception. Some animals were mated, and studied at day 20 of pregnancy, whereas, others were studied in parallel under non pregnant conditions. The protein synthesis rate measured with an "in vitro" cell-free system was higher in pregnan...

BACKGROUND Congenital toxoplasmosis presents as severe, life-altering disease in North America. If mothers of infants with congenital toxoplasmosis could be identified by risks, it would provide strong support for educating pregnant women about risks, to eliminate this disease. Conversely, if not all risks are identifiable, undetectable risks are suggested. A new test detecting antibodies to sp...