Abstract: Automatic analysis of fetal heart and related components in fetal echocardiography can help cardiologists to reach a diagnosis for Congenital Heart Disease (CHD). Previous studies mainly ...

Methods We prospectively obtained the preoperative biometric data of 2143 eyes of 2143 consecutive patients undergoing standard cataract surgery at major 12 facilities and compared the preoperative ...

Effects of placental insufficiency induced FGR on blood pressure (BP) have been extensively studied in both humans and animals. Studies in humans produce conflicting results; some studies found ...

Estimates for the UK suggest that alcohol consumption during pregnancy and prevalence of fetal alcohol spectrum disorder (FASD)—the most common neurodevelopmental condition—are high. Considering the ...

In a study published in Nature today "Sequence diversity lost in early pregnancy," scientists from deCODE genetics, a subsidiary of Amgen, estimate that around one in 136 pregnancies are lost due ...

In less than a week, Indiana is set to execute Benjamin Ritchie, a man with significant brain damage due to Partial Fetal Alcohol Syndrome (pFAS) and exposure to multiple neurotoxins, even though ...

South Carolina's Supreme Court upheld the state's 2023 fetal heartbeat law, banning abortions after cardiac activity is detected, typically around six weeks. The law allows exceptions for medical ...

South Carolina’s Supreme Court upheld the state’s ‘fetal heartbeat’ law in a Wednesday ruling. Justices ruled the state can continue to ban abortion starting at six weeks of gestation ...

COLUMBIA, S.C. — The South Carolina Supreme Court has issued an opinion upholding the state's "fetal heartbeat" law, banning abortions after six weeks. Today's opinion addressed the narrow ...

The law does not state exactly at what point during a pregnancy the ban can begin to be enforced, only that abortion is outlawed once fetal cardiac activity can be detected on a “steady and ...