Most Americans know that it’s important for someone to take care of their health before getting pregnant and during pregnancy to increase their chance of having a healthy baby. Many people know, for ...

Smoking even one or two cigarettes a day in the months leading up to pregnancy or during pregnancy significantly increases the risk that the baby will have a severe health problem, new research shows.

Today we have Nurse Al Romeo from MotherToBaby Utah at the Utah Department of Health and Human Services with us to talk about smoking and marijuana use in pregnancy. What are some of the problems that ...

Smoking during pregnancy can double the chance of sudden death for the child, according to a new study in the journal Pediatrics. According to CNN, the study analyzed more than 20 million births ...

A new study has found that exposure to second-hand smoke during pregnancy and actually smoking increase the risk of placental abruption, a complication that can be fatal to both parent and baby, to ...

Cambridge researchers have found that women who smoke during pregnancy are 2.6 times more likely to give birth prematurely compared to non-smokers – more than double the previous estimate. The study, ...

GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. (WOOD) — The number of women smoke while pregnant has increased across the state, a report released Thursday shows. The Michigan League for Public Policy’s annual report on ...

Research shows that for every 10 grams of alcohol consumed per day, roughly equivalent to a small glass of wine, a woman's breast cancer risk increases by about 7-10%. This risk is cumulative: the ...

Use of alcohol, cigarettes or certain drugs can contribute to the development of cleft lip in a child before birth. [Courtesy] Having a baby is a miraculous and a beautiful journey but any birth ...

For decades, women have been told that drinking any amount of alcohol during pregnancy can harm their developing child. The zero-alcohol rule is so ingrained that just walking into a bar while ...