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Thyroid disease can be challenging during pregnancy because many of its symptoms are common to pregnancy. Let us understand the thyroid function and how it plays an important role in pregnancy. Thyroid Awareness Month: Thyroid, its Impact and Management during pregnancy | Photo Credit: iStock Images
New Delhi: Thyroid hormones are critical to the normal development of the foetus’s brain and nervous system, says Dr Mukesh Gupta, Obstetrician & Gynaecologist at Le Nest Hospital Malad, Mumbai. Thyroid conditions are it hypothyroidism or hyperthyroidism must be stringently monitored during pregnancy especially in the first trimester. Babies who don’t get enough of these hormones in the first trimester, when they’re dependent on the mother’s supply, can be born with neurological development problems. Risks if thyroid levels are haywire include premature birth, miscarriage, low birth weight, anaemia, stillb
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Over 50,000 cervical cancer cases can be prevented in India by 2050
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Over 50,000 cervical cancer cases can be prevented in India by 2050 (IANSlife). Image Source: IANS News
New Delhi, Jan 16 : As every year 1,32,000 Indian women are diagnosed with cervical cancer and 74,000 die of the disease, it is considered as one of the deadliest forms of cancer that leads to mortality in women. If we see the Indian statistics, a large population of 436 million women falls into the age bracket of 15 years and above and they all are at the risk of contracting the disease.
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Al Wakra Hospital helps couple renew their hopes of having another baby
12 Dec 2020 - 13:22
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Doha: A Doha-based couple has expressed gratitude to Al Wakra Hospital’s Obstetrics and Gynecology’s Bereavement Clinic staff, for providing them with high quality care and necessary emotional support when the wife was diagnosed with an ectopic pregnancy and lost their one-month-old baby, their first after five years of marriage.
The couple was devastated by the news of their loss, but the professional intervention of the Bereavement Clinic helped them heal and their hopes of having another baby soon were renewed with their follow-up appointment at the hospital’s Infertility Clinic. The couple will now receive follow-up care from Dr Lolwa Alansari, AWH’s Chief of Obstetrics and Gynecology Division and Senior Consultant Ob/Gyn and Reproductive Endocrinology.
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