The findings of studies investigating whether exposures to ionizing radiation before birth, either pre- or post-conception, increase the risk of childhood cancer have provoked much scientific controversy. An epidemiological association between the abdominal exposure of pregnant women to diagnostic X-rays and childhood cancer was first reported in the 1950s, while an association between the reco...

Carrier screening programmes, aimed at the identification of carrier couples in the general population, provide these couples with the opportunity to be informed about their risk and about the reproductive options that are available. It has been argued that the imperfect sensitivity of the carrier test, for example in the case of cystic fibrosis (CF), might cause anxiety in couples if a mutatio...

BACKGROUND Adverse reproductive performance has been linked to unhealthy dietary intake and lifestyles. Our objectives were to investigate the prevalence of unhealthy dietary intake and lifestyles before conception and to evaluate whether tailored preconception counselling modifies these behaviours. METHODS Between October 2007 and April 2009, 419 couples received tailored preconception dieta...

abstract background: clinical guidelines are important instruments for increasing the quality of clinical practice in the treatment team. compilation of clinical guidelines is important due to special condition of the neonates and the nurses facing critical conditions in the neonatal intensive care unit (nicu). with 98% of neonatal deaths occurring in nicus in the hospitals, it is important to ...