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Hormone treatment may help prevent miscarriages in some pregnancies

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Hormone treatment may help prevent miscarriages in some pregnancies

The hormone progesterone may help prevent miscarriages in women who experience bleeding in early pregnancy and have previously lost pregnancies

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Don't miss: Visualising inequality, space comms and a rare pregnancy

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Pre-eclampsia blood test could help diagnose the condition earlier

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People are seeking sperm donors online, but are the risks worth it?

Insight

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Women could use their own uteruses as incubators for IVF embryos

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Comment

Surrogacy should be a relationship, not a transaction

Comment

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2019 Preview: DNA testing will lead to a decline in genetic disorders

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Pre-eclampsia affects up to 10 per cent of pregnancies

Health

Silencing a gene may prevent deadly pre-eclampsia in pregnancy

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Health risks increase for babies born to fathers aged 45 or over

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New clues to unravelling link between pregnancy and breast cancer risk

Women are less likely to get breast cancer if they give birth before the age of 30. Now we know the effect kicks in specifically after 33 weeks of pregnancy

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Wheat flour to be fortified with folic acid in the UK

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We need to get better at supporting people who lose a pregnancy

Comment

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BPA-free plastics seem to disrupt sperm and egg development in mice

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Life

Don't restrict women's contraception rights through moral panic

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