A study in this week's PLoS Medicine , shows that since Scotland has introduced a national, comprehensive smoke-free legislation, the numbers of preterm deliveries and small for dates infants has dropped substantially.
Neonatal specialists from UC San Diego Medical Center and Tri-City Medical Center’s Neonatal Intensive Care Unit will soon be able to collaborate, diagnose and treat some of San Diego County’s tiniest, and most complicated babies through an innovative telemedicine program that connects.
According to a study conducted by researchers from the Universities of Oxford, Liverpool, Warwick, Leicester, and the National Perinatal Epidemiology Unit, babies born just a few weeks premature have worse health outcomes than babies born at full term.
French women aren't just thinner, healthier and more stylish than the rest of us.
Pregnancy doesn't just change your life, it changes your body -- how it looks and acts.
Parents may be misinformed during prenatal scans on whether their twins are identical or non-identical, say UCL researchers in a new commentary piece published 29 February in BJOG: An International Journal of Obstetrics and Gynaecology.
Last week in Part 1, I discussed two of the many pregnancy symptoms: Morning sickness and heartburn.
A 9-month-old girl is struggling to survive after being diagnosed with cancer-which doctors say she inherited from her late mother while in the womb, azfamily.com reported.
RICHMOND, VA We've all heard the stories - your wife is pregnant, so you gain a little weight - maybe have a few sympathy pains.
Exercise is a great way to manage the aches and pains of pregnancy, and help prepare your body for the birth of your child.
Pregnancy is a special event that brings joy to the parents-to-be, siblings, grandparents and the whole family.
U.S. health regulators approved Corcept Therapeutics's Korlym, the first drug designed to treat a rare hormonal disorder called Cushing's syndrome in the United States.
A number of new laws affecting employers took effect on January 1, 2012. Learn more about them and how employees may be affected as well.
Americans shared a collective jaw drop when JaMichael Brown of Longview, Texas, came into the world last summer weighing a whopping 16 pounds.
WEDNESDAY Feb. 1, 2012 -- The morning-after pill may help shrink painful fibroids and relieve excessive bleeding, new research indicates.
Beyonce and JayZ are not the first parents to choose a baby name that is a color, but baby Blue Ivy might be one of the most recent ones to be well known.
Despite a decrease in home births between 1990 and 2004, the number of home births actually increased between 2004 and 2009 by 29%, an upturn of 0.56% in 2004, to 0.72% in 2009.
Historically speaking, home birth was were the vast majority of babies were born prior to the 1900s.
Shares of Columbia Laboratories once again took a beating yesterday, cut by more than half, after a negative 13-4 vote by the FDA Advisory Committee on Friday after-hours, recommending against approving its progesterone vaginal gel 8% Prochieve in reducing the risk of pre-term birth in women with a single gestation and a short uterine cervical ... (more)
We spend a lot of time talking about pregnancy symptoms . What they are, what they mean and how to deal with them.
'Silent Thalidomide': Thousands of mothers and their daughters at risk of cancer from anti-miscarriage drugs they took decades ago Thousands of women whose mothers were prescribed the common pregnancy drug DES are unaware they are at greater risk of a number of cancers, according to experts.
Women whose mothers were prescribed the common pregnancy drug DES will be encouraged to seek compensation as it has been linked to certain cancers.
You're probably looking very forward to the day that your baby is born. You've been imagining it for months.
Welcome to 2012 - a Leap Year! That means that at the end of February, we'll get a whole extra day, February 29th.
BACKGROUND: Second-trimester medical termination of pregnancy is associated with a higher risk of surgical evacuation than earlier medical TOP.
A new Canadian study suggests smoking marijuana while pregnant is an effective way to combat morning sickness, though researchers note the findings are far from conclusive.
JWoww, DJ Pauly D, Vinny and Ronnie visit the THR Cover Lounge to clear up the most outrageous gossip headlines they've read about themselves.
The Kitchener mother had such a good experience with her midwife during her first pregnancy, she didn't hesitate to pick midwifery care again.
Are you trying to get pregnant? Trying to figure out if you're pregnant or not can be a big deal.
Maternal mortality among black African women in the UK is up to seven times higher than it is among white women.
