At 4 months pregnant, you've officially entered the second trimester of pregnancy. Your baby is growing, so you may start ...

The United States has received another barely passing pregnancy health grade from the March of Dimes after another year in which one out of 10 babies were born prematurely. New research in Sweden has ...

Researchers have characterized, in exacting detail, the rapid series of events that transform a single fertilized cell into a living, complex being. The work not only has enabled the team to explore ...

New research tracks how THC exposure during pregnancy disrupts fetal brain development and leads to sustained structural ...

In a recent study posted to the Research Square* preprint server, researchers estimated the impact of antenatal and postnatal maternal mental health on the motor developments of the newborn during the ...

A team from the Douglas Research Centre found that high cannabis use during pregnancy can cause delays in fetal brain ...

UCSF’s Program in Craniofacial Biology (PCB) brings together researchers to study the cellular and molecular mechanisms underlying craniofacial development and birth defects, such as cleft lip and ...

From a diaper bank in South Carolina to a community clinic in Florida and a village in India, pregnant women are getting a ...

Tennessee could soon become the latest state to require public school students to watch a three-minute computer-generated video on fetal development created by an anti-abortion group. The state Senate ...

At her first prenatal appointment for her first pregnancy, Shana Westlake of Beacon, New York, remembers entering her OB-GYN's office full of anxiety. "They took my blood pressure, and it was ...