Posts Tagged ‘Pregnancy’

Evidence suggests that useful bacterium found in health drinks and yoghurt are ineffective on eczema symptoms and can also cause gut problems occasionally.

The researchers reviewed 12 studies that comprised around 800 children who had eczema. In researchers found that in these children probiotics didn’t prove effective to ease itching and the rash.

In some separate studies, some side effects like infection and bowel damage were also reported in 46 patients. According to the experts, further trials are needed to know about the long-term safety of their use. Read the rest of this entry

More than 12000 couples with reproductive health related problems have been studied by the Researchers in France. The researchers found that among most of these couples pregnancy rates dropped and miscarriage rates surprisingly increased when the man’s age was over 35. And they concluded from that to reach successful pregnancy, the father’s age was as important as of the mother.

The study has been presented at the 24th annual conference of the European Society of human Reproduction and Embryology in Barcelona, Spain by the lead researcher Dr. Stephanie Belloc.

Belloc told in a press conference that it was the first research that showed such a strong effect on reproductive success rates from the father’s side.

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