Scientists are learning more about this leading complication of childbirth. Treatments are improving and doctors can test for ...

Metro Atlanta hospitals won't discuss policies around newborn drug testing, despite consequences for families reported.

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Scientists have recently developed a groundbreaking pregnancy test that can detect pregnancy in skeletons buried ...

Less than 1 percent of clinical trials include pregnant or breastfeeding people. Experts say that needs to change ...

Human embryos formed with in vitro fertilisation can develop genetic abnormalities in the time between genetic testing and ...

Maternal health experts have stated that fever during pregnancy is abnormal and poses the risk of miscarriage, premature ...

And when they controlled for a handful of variables (like age and health conditions), they found that the women with the ...

Postpartum depression affects some one in eight women in the United States. It typically occurs in the first weeks after childbirth, after a sudden drop in levels of estrogen and progesterone.

Fairfax County Public Schools is denying allegations from one of its teachers that a social worker employed by the school ...

As a new survey uncovers the glaring gaps in Britain's sex education system, three young women have shared how their lives ...

Such designs show that although prenatal cigarette smoking lowers birth weight, it does not appear to be causal for offspring ADHD. (6) Similar research designs have not supported causal claims about ...