Pregnant women with asthma are at risk for having a baby with reduced growth, but only if the mother is not treated with inhaled steroids and is carrying a girl. This holds true regardless of how ...

A study published in the American Journal of Obstetrics and Gynecology demonstrates that when the diabetes drug metformin is given to the mother during pregnancy, fetus growth is restricted, including ...

Oxford University Hospitals Trust says scanning in late pregnancy will reflect national guidelines.

Researchers have studied placental genes to explore how Assisted Reproductive Technology (ART) affects a child's development. Differences showed up between pregnancies from frozen and fresh embryo ...

Babies affected by fetal growth restriction (FGR) have poor cardiorespiratory control; now Hudson Institute researchers have become the first to show persistent injury in the brainstem of ...

Transforming a single diploid cell into a living and breathing infant over approximately 280 days is a complex and distinctive process. A successful pregnancy relies on many biochemical processes ...

A study in mice has found that the bacteria Bifidobacterium breve in the mother's gut during pregnancy supports healthy brain development in the fetus. A study in mice has found that the bacteria ...

Exposure to high outdoor temperatures during pregnancy and early infancy appears to slow the growth of a specific brain ...