Pregnancy
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Friday, November 20, 2009

Hereditary hemochromatosis gene (HFE) variants are associated with birth weight and childhood leukemia risk.

13 Dec 2009 BACKGROUND: Our original studies reported an association between the iron-metabolism gene HFE and risk of childhood acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL), and a birth weight association in ALL. Through its effect on cell proliferation, iron is involved ... Read more...

Healing during existential moments: the "art" of nursing presence.

29 Nov 2009 This article addresses nursing presence, a phenomenon essential to holistic nursing care. The concept is introduced and explained, supporting background information is reviewed, barriers are identified, and successful applications are illustrated in ... Read more...

Personal conscience and the problem of moral certitude.

29 Nov 2009 The moral practice of nursing requires the difficult work of discerning the best response to an ethical quandary. Determining the right course of action can rarely be discovered by assuming that one value, one theory, one point of view will always ... Read more...

Latest indexed articles for 'Pregnancy'

These are the very latest articles for this heading:

• Hereditary hemochromatosis gene (HFE) variants are associated with birth weight and childhood leukemia risk. 13 Dec 2009
• Healing during existential moments: the "art" of nursing presence. 29 Nov 2009
• Personal conscience and the problem of moral certitude. 29 Nov 2009
• Postnatal HIV-1 transmission after cessation of infant extended antiretroviral prophylaxis and effect of maternal highly active antiretroviral therapy. 13 Nov 2009
• Strategic approaches to decrease breast milk transmission of HIV-1: the importance of small things. 13 Nov 2009
• Characteristics of menstruation and pregnancy and the risk of lung cancer in women. 13 Nov 2009
• Validation of neonatal tetanus elimination in the Congo by a lot quality-assurance cluster sample survey. 7 Nov 2009
• State Medicaid coverage for tobacco-dependence treatments - United States, 2007. 4 Nov 2009
• Images in clinical medicine. Peripartum diastasis of the symphysis pubis. 3 Nov 2009
• Factors affecting plasma pregnancy-associated glycoprotein 1 concentrations throughout gestation in high-producing dairy cows. 2 Nov 2009
• Population seroprevalence of hepatitis E virus antibodies in rural Bangladesh. 30 Oct 2009
• Prevention of mother-to-child transmission of HIV-1 through breastfeeding by treating mothers with triple antiretroviral therapy in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania: the Mitra Plus study. 30 Oct 2009
• Prevention of breast milk transmission of HIV: the time is now. 30 Oct 2009
• Trends in prenatal ultrasound use in the United States: 1995 to 2006. 30 Oct 2009
• Difficult and failed intubation in 3430 obstetric general anaesthetics. 30 Oct 2009
• A patient's wish: anakinra in pregnancy. 30 Oct 2009
• Etanercept during pregnancy and lactation in a patient with rheumatoid arthritis: drug levels in maternal serum, cord blood, breast milk and the infant's serum. 30 Oct 2009
• Lack of teratogenicity after combined exposure of pregnant mice to CDMA and WCDMA radiofrequency electromagnetic fields. 30 Oct 2009
• A confirmation study of Russian and Ukrainian data on effects of 2450 MHz microwave exposure on immunological processes and teratology in rats. 30 Oct 2009
• Science marches forward: a new tool to study the progress of labor. 30 Oct 2009

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Technical information about 'Pregnancy'

Definition: The status during which female mammals carry their developing young (EMBRYOS or FETUSES) in utero before birth, beginning from FERTILIZATION to BIRTH.

Descriptor UI: D011247

Alternative terms: Pregnancy; Pregnancies; Gestation;

Related Mesh Headings: Litter Size; Prenatal Care; Pseudopregnancy; Maternal-Fetal Relations; Pregnant Women;

Allowable Qualifiers: blood; cerebrospinal fluid; drug effects; ethnology; genetics; immunology; metabolism; physiology; psychology; radiation effects; urine; ethics; statistics & numerical data;

Tree Number: G08.686.785.760.769;

History Note: 1963

Technical Notes: IM for articles on normal pregn, NIM as check tag; policy: Manual 18.4+, 28.16+; in children or adolescents, see note under PREGNANCY IN ADOLESCENCE; check tag FEMALE also; molar pregn = HYDATIDIFORM MOLE; surrogate pregnancy = SURROGATE MOTHERS; heterotopic pregnancy: see note under PREGNANCY, ECTOPIC; for "pregnancy" in non-placental organisms: use OVIPARITY; OVOVIVIPARITY; or VIVIPARITY, NONMAMMALIAN; DF: PREGN