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Prenatal care refers to the medical care recommended for women before and during pregnancy. The aim of good prenatal care is to detect any potential problems early, to prevent them if possible (through recommendations on adequate nutrition, exercise, vitamin intake etc), and to direct the woman to appropriate specialists, hospitals, etc. if necessary. The availability of routine prenatal care has played a part in reducing maternal death rates and miscarriages as well as birth defects, low bi ...
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Prenatal Care Organizations
- National Women's Health Information Center http://www.4woman.gov/
- Centers for Disease Control and Prevention http://www.cdc.gov/
- Medline Plus http://medlineplus.gov/
- National Institutes of Health http://www.nih.gov/
- Nemours Foundation http://www.Nemours.org
- Mayo Foundation for Medical Education and Research http://www.mayoclinic.com
- National Institute of Child Health and Human Development http://www.nichd.nih.gov/
- National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism http://www.niaaa.nih.gov/
- National Center for Health Statistics
- American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists
- American Academy of Family Physicians http://www.aafp.org/
- Dept. of Health and Human Services
- American Medical Association http://www.ama-assn.org/
- National Library of Medicine
- Center for the Evaluation of Risks to Human Reproduction
- National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences http://www.niehs.nih.gov/
- March of Dimes Birth Defects Foundation http://www.marchofdimes.com/
- Spina Bifida Association of America http://www.sbaa.org/
- Environmental Protection Agency, Office of Water
- National Women's Health Information Center, OWH, HHS http://www.4woman.gov/
- American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists (ACOG) Resource Center http://www.acog.org/
- Office of Consumer Affairs, OEA, FDA,
- Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality Clearinghouse, AHRQ, OPHS, HHS http://www.ahcpr.gov/news/pubsix.htm
- Divisions of HIV/AIDS Prevention, NCHSTP, CDC, OPHS, HHS http://www.cdc.gov/hiv/dhap.htm
- Indian Health Services http://www.ihs.gov/
- Health Resources Services Administration Information Center http://www.ask.hrsa.gov
- Center for Food Safety and Applied Nutrition, FDA, OPHS, HHS http://www.cfsan.fda.gov/
- Iowa Women's Health Center, University of Iowa
- National Center for Infectious Diseases, CDC, OPHS, HHS http://www.cdc.gov/ncidod/index.htm
- Division of Reproductive Health, NCCDPHP, CDC http://www.cdc.gov/nccdphp/drh/index.htm
- National Immunization Program, CDC, OPHS, HHS http://www.cdc.gov/nip/
- National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism, NIH, HHS http://www.niaaa.nih.gov/
- Health Resources Services Administration, HHS http://www.hrsa.gov/
- Yale-New Haven Hospital http://www.ynhh.org/
- National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences, NIH, HHS http://www.niehs.nih.gov/
- UCSF Center for HIV Information (CHI) http://chi.ucsf.edu/
- Center for Health Care Strategies, Inc. http://www.chcs.org
- Lamaze International http://www.lamaze.org

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