:: November 2009

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Do Vacuum-Assisted Deliveries Cause Intracranial Vessel Injuries? (Journal of Child Neurology 2009)

ACOG Issues Guidelines on Managing Obesity in Pregnancy (2009)

AHRQ - Perinatal Depression: Prevalence, Screening Accuracy, and Screening Outcomes (2005)

AHRQ - Screening for Lead Levels in Childhood and Pregnancy (2006)

Guidelines on Labor Induction Revised

Institute of Medicine Sets New Guidelines for Weight Gain During Pregnancy (2009)

New Guidelines Shed Light on Use of Psychiatric Medications During Pregnancy

NGC - Anemia in pregnancy. (2008)

NGC - Assessment of risk factors for preterm birth. (2001)

NGC - Caesarean section. (2004)

NGC - Chronic hypertension in pregnancy. (2001)

NGC - Clinical policy: critical issues in the initial evaluation and management of patients presenting to the emergency department in early pregnancy. (2003)

NGC - Diagnosis and classification. In: Diagnosis, evaluation and management of the hypertensive disorders of pregnancy. (2008)

NGC - Diagnosis and management of preeclampsia and eclampsia. (2002)

NGC - DoD/VA clinical practice guideline for management of uncomplicated pregnancy. (2003)

NGC - Gestational diabetes. (2005)

NGC - Hypertensive disorders of pregnancy: pre-eclampsia, eclampsia. (2005)

NGC - Interventions for postpartum depression. (2005)

NGC - Management of labor. (2007)

NGC - Prediction, prevention, and prognosis of preeclampsia. In: Diagnosis, evaluation and management of the hypertensive disorders of pregnancy. (2008)

NGC - Preterm birth prevention. (2004)

NGC - Pre-eclampsia community guideline. (2004)

NGC - Routine prenatal and postnatal care. (2006)

NGC - Routine prenatal care. (2007)

NGC - Screening for asymptomatic bacteriuria: recommendation statement. (2004)

NGC - Screening for gestational diabetes mellitus: U.S. Preventive Services Task Force recommendation statement. (2008)

NGC - Screening for Rh(D) incompatibility: recommendation statement. (2004)

NGC - Standards of medical care in diabetes. III. Detection and diagnosis of gestational diabetes mellitus (GDM). (2005)

NGC - Systemic diseases in pregnancy. (2006)

NGC - The management of severe pre-eclampsia/eclampsia. (2006)

NGC - The investigation and treatment of couples with recurrent miscarriage. (2003)

NGC - Treatment of the hypertensive disorders of pregnancy. In: Diagnosis, evaluation and management of the hypertensive disorders of pregnancy. (2008)

NGC - Trial of Labor After Cesarean (TOLAC) (2005)

NGC - Ultrasound scanning during pregnancy. (2004)

NGC - Vaginal birth after cesarean. (2004)

NGC - Vaginal birth after previous cesarean delivery. (2004)

NICE - Caesarean section (2004)

RNAO - Interventions for Postpartum Depression 2005

The pre-eclampsia community guideline (PRECOG): how to screen for and detect onset of pre-eclampsia in the community (2005)

Featured site

NIH - Pregnancy

FDA - Mercury Concentrations in Fish: FDA Monitoring Program (1990-2004)

FDA - Mercury Levels in Commercial Fish and Shellfish

Maternity Center Association

Mercury in Seafood

NIH - NIEHS Drinking Water Contaminants, Gene Polymorphisms, and Fetal Growth

NIH - Medical Encyclopedia Eclampsia

NIH - Medical Encyclopedia Pre-Eclampsia

NIH - Pregnancy

NIH - Pregnancy and Reproduction Topics

NIH - Pregnancy and Substance Abuse

Vitamins: B9 (Folic Acid)

Food: Fish

Environmental Health

Contaminants

Vitamins: B9 (Folic Acid)

Epidemiology of neural tube defects. (Am J Med Genet C Semin Med Genet. 2005) "The epidemiological investigation of the common open neural tube defects (NTDs), anencephaly, and spina bifida, has a long history. The most significant finding from these past studies of NTDs was the identification of the protective effect of maternal, periconceptional supplementation with folic acid."

Food: Fish

Methyl mercury exposure in Swedish women with high fish consumption. (Sci Total Environ. 2005) "We studied the exposure to methyl mercury (MeHg) in 127 Swedish women of childbearing age with high consumption of various types of fish, using total mercury (T-Hg) in hair and MeHg in blood as biomarkers. ? Hair mercury levels exceeded the levels corresponding to the EPA reference dose (RfD) of 0.1 microg MeHg/kg b.w. per day in 20% of the women. Thus, there seems to be no margin of safety for neurodevelopmental effects in fetus, for women with high fish consumption unless they decrease their intake of certain fish species."