(Reuters Health) – Obese women who have weight-loss surgery between pregnancies may be less likely to experience complications like high blood pressure and preterm births in their second pregnancy, a recent study suggests. Researchers examined hospital records... More »
(Reuters Health) – Women who develop preeclampsia, a form of dangerously high blood pressure during pregnancy, are 5 times more likely to develop end-stage kidney disease later in life than women who have normal blood pressure during pregnancy, a Swedish study... More »
(Reuters Health) – Pregnant women at high risk for developing gestational diabetes may be less likely to experience this complication when they switch to a Mediterranean diet instead of sticking with their usual eating habits, a recent experiment suggests. Res... More »
Women who develop preeclampsia, a form of dangerously high blood pressure during pregnancy, may face a wide variety of heart problems long after they give birth, a research review concludes. Preeclampsia has long been linked to an increased risk of events like... More »
Men may be more likely to experience fertility problems if their mothers endured stressful life events early in pregnancy, a recent study suggests. Compared to men with mothers who had stress-free early pregnancies, men whose mothers experienced one or more st... More »
(Reuters Health) – Many pregnant women in the U.S. may not be getting enough of certain crucial nutrients, while others may be getting too much, a new study suggests. Based a study of more than 1,000 pregnant women, researchers estimated that even with supplem... More »
LONDON (Reuters) – The Duchess of Sussex, former U.S. actress Meghan Markle, is due to give birth this Spring to her first child with husband Prince Harry, 34, Queen Elizabeth’s grandson. The baby, who will be seventh in line to the British throne, is expected... More »
(Reuters Health) – Early menopause is more likely among women who were exposed to famine in the womb, a recent study in China suggests. Researchers compared the timing of menopause for 751 women born during a famine in China from 1959 to 1961 and for 1,029 wom... More »
(Reuters Health) – Teen mothers who are in foster care may be more likely to lose custody of their babies than adolescent mothers in different living circumstances, a Canadian study suggests. Researchers examined data on 576 teen mothers who were in foster car... More »
(Reuters Health) – Women who breathe polluted air during pregnancy may be more likely to have children who develop high blood pressure, a U.S. study suggests. Researchers focused on what’s known as fine particulate matter, or PM 2.5, a mixture of solid particl... More »
(Reuters Health) – Women exposed to high levels of air pollution may have less success getting pregnant with fertility treatments or staying pregnant, compared to women breathing cleaner air, a South Korean study suggests. Researchers analyzed pregnancy rates ... More »
(Reuters Health) – Babies’ brains may develop differently when their mothers take antidepressants during pregnancy, a small U.S. study suggests. Researchers examined brain scans of 16 newborns whose mothers took medications known as selective serotonin reuptak... More »
(Reuters Health) – Pregnant women who exercise outside on warm days or spend a little time in a hot bath or sauna may not necessarily raise their body temperature enough to cause problems, a research review suggests. While most women without health problems ca... More »
A woman holds her stomach at the last stages of her pregnancy in Bordeaux April 28, 2010. REUTERS/Regis Duvignau By Lisa Rapaport(Reuters Health) – Prescription prenatal vitamins may have lower doses of key ingredients like vitamin A, vitamin D, and calcium th... More »
By Cheryl Platzman Weinstock(Reuters Health) – Children born to mothers who experienced fever, especially multiple fevers, during the second trimeste More »
By Lisa Rapaport(Reuters Health) – Women who drink even a little bit of alcohol during pregnancy may be more likely than other mothers to have babies More »
By Lisa Rapaport(Reuters Health) – Women with depression may be more likely than other mothers to have children with attention-deficit/hyperactivity More »
By Gene Emery(Reuters Health) – One risk of taking lithium for bipolar disorder during the first trimester of pregnancy is turning out to be lower th More »
Tennis – Australian Open – Melbourne Park, Melbourne, Australia – 28/1/17 Serena Williams of the U.S. celebrates winning her Women’s singles final match against Venus Williams of the U.S. . REUTERS/David Gray Tennis star Serena Williams’ plan to return to comp... More »
By Gene Emery(Reuters Health) – New evidence from a Danish nationwide study suggests that Sanofi Pasteur’s quadrivalent human papillomavirus vaccine More »
By Lisa Rapaport(Reuters Health) – When women smoke during pregnancy or have underweight babies their children have a greater risk of developing a ty More »
By Ronnie Cohen(Reuters Health) – Every 25 minutes, a drug-addicted baby is born in the U.S. To try to protect the youngest victims of the na More »
By Lisa Rapaport(Reuters Health) – Women who consume licorice during pregnancy might be more likely to have children with cognitive or behavioral pro More »
By Rob Goodier(Reuters Health) – Exercise may be an efficient way for obese pregnant women to lower their risk of diabetes, dangerously high blood pr More »
Reproductive medicine industry is a big business but what are emotional, physical and financial expenses of infertile couples? More »
Infertility may lead mankind to the verge of extinction. It sounds as a trailer to a thriller movie, still it’s true. Nowadays each 5th couple in the world is infertile and unable to reproduce. The 21st century and infertile human race battle to survive with i... More »
A woman holds her stomach at the last stages of her pregnancy in Bordeaux April 28, 2010. REUTERS/Regis Duvignau By Lisa Rapaport(Reuters Health) – Pregnancy may trigger changes in the structure and size of regions in a woman’s brain that are involved in respo... More »
(Reuters Health) – Babies exposed to marijuana in the womb are likely to be born smaller than those not exposed, and more likely to need intensive care after birth, according to a new analysis of existing evidence. Mothers who smoke marijuana while pregnant ar... More »
(Reuters Health) – When mothers eat three sizeable servings of fish each week during pregnancy it may benefit children’s brains for years to come, according to a large study in Spain. Researchers followed nearly 2,000 mother-child pairs from the first trimeste... More »
