News has found in which if nitroglycerin is given to women who are going to deliver premature baby, it will be beneficial for baby.

Led by Dr. Graeme Smith (Obstetrics and Gynaecology), the five-year, randomized controlled trial involved 153 women who were conscripted at the time they went into pre-term labour. The study was planned by the Queen’s Perinatal Research Unit at Kingston General Hospital, with data management by the Ottawa Maternal Neonatal Investigators at the Ottawa Health Research Institute.

According to the study nitroglycerin patches for pregnant women helps to extend pregnancy and — most prominently — improves babies’ outcome, with slight side effects than experienced through the use of other drugs.

Approximately 7.5 per cent of all babies born in Canada are born prematurely (before 37 weeks) and 1 to 2 per cent is born before 34 weeks. “It is this later group that is most concerning as these babies are at the highest risk of immediate and long-term medical complications,” says Dr. Smith, an expert in high-risk obstetrics.

“Dr. Smith’s trial results have provided us new information on one possible solution to reduce the adverse effects of pre-term labour,” said Dr. Michael Kramer, Scientific Director of the CIHR Institute of Human Development, Child and Youth Health. “This result is very promising and it provides reassurance for expecting mothers and their families.”

The team’s findings are highlighted as an “Editor’s Choice” in the January issue of the American Journal of Obstetrics and Gynecology. An editorial in the journal commends “the excellence of their clinical research” and “the study design, execution and report.”

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Earlier several women have fear in their mind in taking contraceptive pills for preventive pregnancy because a long time ago they can cause of blood clotting, cardiovascular problems and several other problems but now….government is taking action towards birth control drugs, saying new pills come out to be less helpful at preventing pregnancy than those agreed decades before.

Amy Allina, program director of the National Women’s Health Network said, “The very first pills were very high dose and carried risks of blood clots and cardiovascular problems that would be unacceptable to most women,” “Today, most birth control pills are very safe for the vast majority of women.”

The drug agency said, The contraceptive pills accepted in the 1960s acceptable on normal less than one pregnancy for every 100 women taking the tablet for as a minimum a year,. But the government has approved pills allowing more than two pregnancies for every 100 women.

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Antidepressant raises the risk of fractures, news reported. Prozac and several other antidepressants increase the risk double of fractures in the middle age. Those person who habitual of depression medicines, called SSRI (selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors), have weaker bones rather than other people.

A study has found in McGill University that habitant of antidepressant has weaker bones and have fractures. The results recommend doctors require weighing the reimbursement of SSRIs for depression with the growing risk of fractures as they create treatment decisions, the study said.

People should be aware there is this amplified risk and should be encouraged to pursue a routine for osteoporosis.

David Goltzman, professor of medicine at McGill University said “we can say SSRIs are associated with risk over and above things like falls, physical activity and bone density,”.

The researchers wrote in the study “In light of the high rate of SSRI use among the general population, and among elderly persons in particular, further studies that include controlled prospective trials are needed to confirm our findings”.

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According to Korean research on Cold Drugs with phenylpropanolamine (PPA) come into views to boost the risk of hemorrhagic stroke in young and middle-age women.

Woo Yoon of Seoul National University Hospital told Reuters Health that the “association between diet pills containing large doses of PPA and brain hemorrhage was already proven, our study reveals that even smaller doses of PPA in cold remedies can increase the risk of hemorrhagic stroke.”

Studied has been done on 940 patients with hemorrhagic stroke, and reported “Overall, 1.7 percent of the women were exposed to PPA within 14 days of the stroke, compared with 0.7 percent of controls, in the 14 days prior to the index date. All of these exposures were due to cold remedies containing PPA. None of the subjects were using appetite suppressants.”

The ratio came of risks just double than normal, among the women, the stroke was augmented by 4-fold, but the risk is very less among men. But in recent studies the risk is also found in some men also.

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