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I dag avvaktar vården med medicinsk abort till dess att ultraljud bekräftar en graviditet i livmodern. En stor internationell studie visar nu på lika effektiv och säker behandling redan innan den sjätte graviditetsveckan. Det rapporterar forskare från bland annat Karolinska Institutet i tidskriften New England Journal of Medicine.

Heatwaves in sub-Saharan Africa are predicted to become more common due to climate change. A new study by researchers at Karolinska Institutet and others, published in Nature Medicine, reveals a worrying correlation between high temperatures in the final week of pregnancy and an increased risk of stillbirth and early neonatal mortality.

In first-time mothers requiring vacuum-assisted delivery, a lateral episiotomy (angled cut) in the tissue between the vaginal and anal opening more than halves the risk of obstetric anal sphincter injury, a severe form of perineal trauma between the vulva and anus. This according to a randomised clinical study led by researchers at Karolinska Institutet and Stockholm’s Danderyd Hospital, the results of which are published in The BMJ.

Roughly three times as many male athletes are banned for doping as female. A new doctoral thesis from Karolinska Institutet shows that one possible reason for this is that the doping tests in use fail to take account of women’s varying hormone profile. Instead, an alternative is proposed that includes a blood test and a limit value that allows doping tests for both elite athletes and casual sportspersons.

De flesta som fött barn är nöjda med sitt sexliv, oavsett om de fött vaginalt eller med kejsarsnitt. Det visar en ny stor studie från Centrum för epidemiologi och samhällsmedicin i samarbete med Mödravårdsenheten vid Region Stockholm och Karolinska Institutet.

Karolinska Institutet has decided to award honorary doctorates to Ashley Moffett, professor emerita at the University of Cambridge, UK, and Peter Thelin, chair of the Swedish Brain Fund, for their important contributions to science and KI, respectively. The formal ceremony will take place at the conferment ceremony in Stockholm City Hall on 26 April.

Människor runtom i världen som försvarar rätten till abort och tillhandahåller grundläggande vård stigmatiseras, hotas, attackeras och utsätts för orättfärdiga åtal. Detta leder till att deras arbete blir allt svårare och farligare att utföra konstaterar Amnesty International i en ny rapport som publiceras idag.

Pregnant women with eating disorders should undergo extended pregnancy screenings considering their increased risk of complications. That is the conclusion from a study by researchers at Karolinska Institutet in Sweden published in the journal JAMA Psychiatry. The researchers were, for example, able to show that children to mothers with eating disorders had an increased risk of premature birth and being born with a small head circumference.

[PRESS RELEASE 3/27/15] Two scientific studies led by researchers at Sweden's Karolinska Institutet are expected to form the basis of new international recommendations for the treatment of medical abortions and miscarriages. One of the studies, both of which are being published in the journal The Lancet, shows that it is possible to replace the clinical follow-up examinations recommended today with medical abortions that include a home pregnancy test. The other study shows that midwives can safely and effectively treat failed abortions and miscarriages in rural districts of Uganda.

Bariatric surgery has both a positive and negative influence on the risk of complications during subsequent pregnancy and delivery, concludes a new study from Karolinska Institutet. The results, which are published in the New England Journal of Medicine, indicate that maternal health services should regard such cases as risk pregnancies.

First-time mothers in risk zone even before 35New research from Karolinska Institutet shows that the risk of giving birth to your first child in advanced years increase as early as in the 30-34 age group. Previously, first-time mothers were categorised as being in advanced years from the age 35. The results, which are based on the Swedish and Norwegian medical birth registers, have been presented in the scientific journal Obstetrics and Gynecology.

Ny forskning från Karolinska Institutet visar att riskerna med att föda sitt första barn senare i livet ökar redan för mammor i åldergruppen 30-34 år. Tidigare har kvinnor räknats som äldre förstföderskor från 35 år och uppåt. Resultaten som bygger på registerdata från norska och svenska förstföderskor presenteras i den vetenskapliga tidskriften Obstetrics and Gynecology.