Conventional wisdom suggests that pregnant mothers should have a healthier lifestyle for their babies.
During pregnancy, the mother s medical conditions and pre-existing conditions are observed to know these conditions can impact their baby.
The recent study
A pregnant mother s health condition is important during pregnancy. However, a recent study says that miscarriage or stillbirth is influenced by the father s health as much as the mother s health does.
The study was led by an associate professor from Stanford University School of Medicine, Michael Eisenberg. It was published in the journal Human Reproduction.
Before determining that a father s health is related to stillbirth and miscarriages, the study observed millions of pregnancies in the United States.
Washington, DC – Over the past 10 months of despair and hardship wrought by the COVID-19 pandemic in the United States, the prospect of an effective vaccine was always seen as the light at the end of the tunnel.
That hope appeared to materialise last month when US health authorities approved two vaccines for emergency use across the country.
But weeks after the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) cleared the Pfizer-BioNTech and Moderna vaccines, public health experts say immunisation efforts have been glacially slow and haphazard.
“The roll-out of the vaccine has been slower than expected, but it’s also frankly been chaotic,” said Kevin Schulman, a professor at the Stanford University School of Medicine in California.
January 18, 2021
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The risk of miscarriage might not only depend on a mother’s health but the father-to-be as well.
A recent study from the journal Human Reproduction looks further into the link between a father’s health and the possibility of miscarriage as well as stillbirth.
Dads may want to join in on the new healthy lifestyle mummies are adapting to during pregnancy for it has been found that medical conditions among fathers could lead to pregnancy loss.
The lead of the study Associate Professor Michael Eisenberg went to explain that, “It’s been known for some time that the health of mothers has an impact on the developing foetus and events at the time of birth. This is the first study to suggest that pregnancies sired by men with increasing numbers of medical conditions are at higher risk of ending in miscarriage, ectopic pregnancy or stillbirth.”
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Not enough adolescents are signing up for Moderna s COVID-19 vaccine trial, a federal official said this week, potentially delaying vaccine authorization for this age group.
Last month, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration OK d use of the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine for 16- to 17-year-olds, as well as adults. The companies did not have enough data in younger adolescents to apply for use in that age group, and Moderna had tested its vaccine only in adults, so it is authorized only for those 18 and up.
About four weeks ago, Moderna launched a trial in 12- to 17-year-olds, but apparently, the company is struggling to find enough adolescent volunteers.
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