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Jerusalem: Pregnant women’s exposure to air pollution has been identified as one possible factor for low-birth-weight in babies, which can further lead to poor health outcomes, researchers have shown. The study, published in the journal Environmental Research, also revealed that mothers who are underweight and come from lower socioeconomic background, were more exposed to the […]

New Delhi: After facing criticism from various quarters, the country’s largest lender State Bank of India (SBI) on Saturday decided to suspend its circular on recruitment of pregnant women. SBI recently reviewed its ‘Fitness Standards for Recruitment in the Bank’, including norms for Pregnant Women candidates. Under the new rules, a woman candidate with more […]

Hyderabad: Telangana Vaidya Vidhan Parishad Commissioner Dr K Ramesh Reddy on Wednesday issued orders suspending Dr Krishna, Superintendent, Community Health Centre, Achampet and Duty Doctor Dr Hari Babu for denying admission to a pregnant woman who had tested positive for Covid. After being denied admission to the CHC hospital, which comes under the jurisdiction of […]

Hyderabad: The State government on Tuesday announced a slew of measures aimed at ensuring critical healthcare services continue to remain available for Covid positive pregnant women across all government healthcare facilities in Telangana, during the ongoing Covid-19 third wave. As part of these efforts, the State government has decided to establish exclusive Operation Theatres (OTs) […]

Hyderabad: The Director of Medical Education (DME), Telangana, Dr K Ramesh Reddy has directed all the tertiary teaching hospitals under the jurisdiction of DME to start preparing separate Obstetrics and Gyneacology (OBS) wards for Covid positive pregnant woman, in view of the surge of Covid infections due to the Omicron variant. The directions were issued […]

Hyderabad: A study taken-up by doctors at Rainbow Children’s Hospital, Secunderabad, indicating that proper nutrition of pregnant women can prevent life threatening condition called thiamine (Vitamin B1) deficiency has been published in European Journal of Pediatric Neurology, a press release said. The study titled “Thiamine-responsive, life-threatening, pulmonary hypertensive crisis with encephalopathy in young infants” was […]

London: According to a new research, pregnant women are more likely to stop smoking if they are offered financial incentives as part of a treatment plan.The study has been published in the ‘BMJ Journal’. The results showed that rewarding women for their smoking abstinence with vouchers throughout their pregnancy was associated with an increase in […]

Adilabad: Collector Sikta Patnaik has instructed officials of Medical and Health Department to carry out health checkups of pregnant women every month without fail. She inspected a primary health centre at Narsapur village in Echoda mandal on Tuesday. She advised the officials to carry out medical investigations if some pregnant women who fail to turn […]

Reaching a health centre continues to be a nightmare for them due to lack of roads, bridges

Government maternity hospitals remain first choice for pregnant women compared to private hospitals

This partnership will spearhead a food fortification drive aimed at eradicating malnutrition which has continued as a major challenge for the country.

Now all mothers-to-be can be protected from Covid-19. The benefits of vaccinating pregnant women seem to far outweigh any theoretical and remote risk of vaccination.

Yoga offers holistic benefits to expecting women helping them to keep the body healthy and mind, calm and relaxed.

The decision empowers pregnant women to make an informed choice on taking the Covid vaccination, the Health Ministry said,

DM&HO Dr Gayathri Devi said they have decided to set up the call centre and has suggested the women to call on 1800 599 12345 to get proper advice from doctors if they had any issues.

It has also suggested that pregnant women may be offered the choice to take any COVID-19 vaccine

In a scenario like this, Youth for Anti Corruption (YAC), that started an initiative during the first lockdown, has restarted the free service to provide medicines to pregnant women

The findings of the study were published in the journal 'JAMA Pediatrics'. The study was led by UW Medicine and University of Oxford doctors.

Iron deficiency is common in women of childbearing age and is a global health problem.

Most known cases of COVID-19 in pregnant women have been in the third trimester of pregnancy.