Dr. J. A. DAVIS: The patient (Case No. 298928, P.M. No. 11116) we are about to discuss was a male infant born on 30 December 1964. He was the child of the third pregnancy of a 25-year-old woman with a proved Fallot's tetralogy. The first pregnancy had ended in an abortion at 3 months; the second yielded a live infant who weighed only 1,420 g. at 37 weeks' gestation and died at the age of 30 hou...

BACKGROUND Violence against women is associated with serious health problems, including adverse maternal and child health. Antenatal care (ANC) midwives are increasingly expected to implement the routine of identifying exposure to violence. An increase of Somali born refugee women in Sweden, their reported adverse childbearing health and possible links to violence pose a challenge to the Swedis...

Although fertility rates are falling in many countries, Europe is the continent with the lowest. As men and women choose to have fewer children, total fertility rates in Europe have fallen below replacement levels: for a total fertility rate of 1.5, the rate is around 1.7 children per woman for the cohorts born in 1965. This is due to individual decisions arising from the instability of modern ...

Since 1978, when the first test tube baby, Louis Brown, was born, thousands of children have been born every year through in vitro fertilization. Many families keep attending fertility clinics in order to receive some treatment for their infertility problems and have a child. Children born in this way are worthy human beings. Their parents love them and devote themselves to their children admir...