How access to data can give doctors answers

Electronic healthcare databases could help make life easier for healthcare professionals worried about whether or not to prescribe drugs to pregnant women. Academics from several European countries published research in early 2014 that shows there is already a wealth...

Low doses of aspirin could help some women conceive

Questions surrounding drug use and pregnancy don’t start just when a woman is expecting a child. There are also healthcare professionals and academics thinking about treatment at an earlier stage: how medication can affect the chance of a woman conceiving. In April...

Sickle cell disease not always a barrier to pregnancy

For women that carry a genetic disease – such as the blood disorder sickle cell disease – pregnancy may seem an unrealistic ambition. Apart from the fears of would-be parents that their child may inherit the disease, a condition like sickle cell disease makes a...

Putting pregnant women at the heart of its advice

It’s no secret that women and men are different, which is why medical advice must always take these differences into account. So when the American Heart Association published its latest set of guidelines in late 2013, it prepared a separate set of guidelines for...