
London: The first thousand days of a child's life are of paramount importance, for they determine what sort of health condition the baby will have in lateral life, a British study has suggested. According to a growing body of research, what happens during this period - the nine months in the womb and the first two years out of it - shapes a child's chances of everything from developing diabetes...

12:25 PM, Aug 18, 2011

London: A test that can detect womb cancer in women months or even years before any symptoms show up has been developed. The ultrasound scan can pick up the first signs of tumours in patients who feel perfectly healthy. A study of 96 women found this method was 80 percent effective in picking up womb cancer before sufferers had any symptoms, such as bleeding, reports the journal Lancet Oncology. Researchers...

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Artist Seema Kohli says the concept of the
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Doctors are screening women who would have a chance to bear children so that they can carry out womb transplant. ...

11:48 AM, Jan 16, 2007

Organ donors supplying human wombs for transplantation can now also treat infertility, says study. ...

06:11 PM, Jan 09, 2007

Hannah Kersey gave birth to the girls - two identical twins delivered from one womb and a single baby from the other. ...

08:36 AM, Dec 23, 2006

Deep inside a district in Chattisgarh, men crush prostrate women as part a fertility ritual. ...

12:34 AM, Dec 12, 2006

Scientists have grown human heart valves using stem cells from the fluid that cushions babies in the womb. ...

06:40 PM, Nov 16, 2006