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More evidence pregnancy is safe with MS

Posted: Sun Apr 10, 2011 11:51 pm
by MSUK
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A new research review strengthens the evidence that women with multiple sclerosis are about as likely as other women to have a healthy pregnancy -- without putting their own health at risk.

The findings, reported in the obstetrics journal BJOG, support the advice generally given to women with multiple sclerosis: If the condition is under control, you can safely become pregnant.

"A woman with multiple sclerosis can consider pregnancy just the same way all other women consider it," Dr. Yara D. Fragoso, a neurologist at the Universidade Metropolitana de Santos in Brazil, and the senior researcher on the new study, told Reuters Health. ... Read More - http://www.msrc.co.uk/index.cfm/fuseact ... ageid/1936