TEEN PREGNANCY RATES LOWEST FOR OVER 20 YEARS (DFE... Figures published today show the biggest drop for five years in teenage conception rates, confirmation that the Government’s Teenage Pregnancy Strategy is working. The decline in the under 18 conception rate in England contrasts sharply with increases in the conception rate for all other age groups, highlighting the impact of the Teenage Pregnancy Strategy. I would like to congratulate the 89 per cent of local...

Topic: Pregnancy News – Shifts in Pregnancy ... In the early part of that decade, 44 percent continued to work during pregnancy; that rose to 67 percent among women who gave birth to their first child between 2001 and 2003. The share who quit work before or after giving birth dropped to 25 percent, from about 36 percent in the late 1980s. Fully 80 percent of the women who worked during their pregnancy from 2001 to 2003 continued to do so into the last month of...

Viral Infections Tied to Pregnancy Complications (... The findings — the first of their kind — are a major advance in learning more about the cause of hypertension in pregnancy, according to the authors of the study, which was published in the British Journal of Obstetrics and amp; Gynaecology . Over 10 years, researchers from Adelaide’s Women and amp; Children’s Hospital and the University of Adelaide detected the presence of viral nucleic acid...