‘Pregnancy in unmarried women due to parent&... Thiruvananthapuram, June 28 (IANS) Marital problems between parents is the primary reason for pregnancy among unmarried women and adolescent girls, a study conducted in three state-run medical colleges in Kerala has revealed. Sheelamoni, head of the department of gynecology at the Alappuzha Medical College, analysed 181 cases in three medical college hospitals in Thiruvananthapuram, Kottayam and Kozhikode where unmarried...

Judge: Ex-USC student whose baby died in a trash b... A former college student whose newborn baby was found dead in a trash bin was sentenced today to the 30 days she already spent in jail and was ordered to take monthly pregnancy tests for five years. Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Kathleen Kennedy told Ashcraft that her behavior was “absolutely unforgivable” and she did not want a “similar situation” to occur. Under a plea agreement, Ashcraft...

Treatment for cigarette, alcohol and drug use in p... Pregnant women who receive treatment for substance abuse early in their pregnancy can achieve the same health outcomes as pregnant women with no substance abuse, according to a Kaiser Permanente study published online in the Journal of Perinatology . The study, which is the largest to date, examined 49,985 women in Kaiser Permanente’s prenatal care program and found that integrating substance abuse screening...