Pregnancy

For families struggling with infertility, IVF access poses more difficulty: experts – National

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Experts are welcoming the news B.C. will soon start funding in vitro fertilization (IVF), saying it can help people struggling to grow their family with accessing care that can be prohibitively expensive. “Unfortunately, many people do require IVF to start and to grow their families,” Dr. Kimberly Liu, head of the University of Toronto’s Reproductive … Read more

‘Good Luck!’ Pink Stops Concert As Fan Goes Into Labor

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11 Best Stretch Mark Creams 2024, as Recommended by Dermatologists

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Key Ingredients: Coconut oil, sweet almond oil, shea butter, vitamin E Best Body Oil for Stretch Marks: L’Occitane Almond Smoothing and Beautifying Supple Skin Oil L’Occitane Almond Smoothing and Beautifying Supple Skin Oil Why It’s Worth It: If you can’t resist a product with an alluring scent, you’ll love L’Occitane’s Almond Smoothing and Beautifying Supple … Read more

Pope Francis calls surrogacy ‘despicable’, calls for universal ban – National

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Pope Francis called Monday for a universal ban on what he called the “despicable” practice of surrogate motherhood, as he included the “commercialization” of pregnancy in an annual speech listing threats to global peace and human dignity. In a foreign policy address to ambassadors accredited to the Holy See, Francis lamented that 2024 had dawned … Read more

During Pregnancy, the Placenta Hacks the Immune System to Protect the Fetus

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“The cell is effectively dressing up as an infectious agent,” Kagan said. “The result is that it convinces itself that it’s infected, and then operates as such.” Simmering Immunity Immune responses can be destructive, and antiviral responses especially so. Because viruses are at their most dangerous when they’re already inside a cell, most immune strategies … Read more