Original broadcast date: October 11, 2009 Although there is a belief that an elective or non-emergency induction of labour will lead to increased rates of cesarean sections, research conducted at the University of California, San Francisco and the Stanford University School of Medicine in affiliation with the Stanford-UCSF Evidence-Based Practice Center, has found the opposite [...]

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Original broadcast date: February 22, 2009 Although there have been recent news headlines and reports of fertility treatments resulting in octuplets in California and twins for a 60 year old Calgarian woman, statistics indicate that the preponderance of treatments for infertility are directed at women in the under-35 age group. A recently released report by [...]

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Infertility is an issue that leads many couples to seek a means to correct it. There are many approaches; some are expensive and not always successful. A new study published in the August 8, 2008 edition of the British Medical Journal compared two common infertility treatments against doing nothing. The results raised some eyebrows. Dr. [...]

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Food science research has recently published the links between adequate vitamin D levels and reduced risks of breast and colon cancer, reduced falls in the elderly, a reduction in stress fractures in young athletic women, a possible reduction in age related wet-type macular degeneration, and improved bone structure and density in children borne from mother’s [...]

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Should pregnant women over the age of 35 have amniocentesis to check for birth defects and chromosomal abnormalities such as Down’s syndrome? In an opinion paper published in the Journal of Obstetrics and Gynaecology of Canada, the Society of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists of Canada recommends that maternal age should only factor into a decision about [...]

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What do we know about the safety and efficacy of medications when they are used during pregnancy and breastfeeding? What measures do we have in place today and are improvements needed? A new Alliance of health professionals, academia, patients, health care policy experts and industry individuals has been formed to address these issues The Canadian [...]

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