Docs Don't Deliver 'No Smoking' Message To Pregnant Women

While everyone knows that smoking is bad for you and that smoking while pregnant is bad for baby, too, pregnant smokers don’t receive much help from their physicians to quit smoking, and few quit once they enter prenatal care.

Pre-Term Infants' Brains Linked To Pregnancy

Pregnancy situations have impact on brain development in pre-term infants.

Alcohol Consumption Can Cause Fetal Abnormalities Killing Cells

The initial signs of fetal alcohol syndrome are slight but classic: facial malformations such as a flat and high upper lip, small eye openings and a short nose.

Pregnant women put children at risk with alcohol consumption

It is not breaking news that alcohol consumed during pregnancy can cause disorders in the unborn fetus. But, there are still women that don’t know and understand the risk they put their child in when they consume alcohol.

Researchers Block Maternal Alcohol Related Fetal Brain Damage

Researchers block damage to fetal brain following maternal alcohol consumption. Study holds promise in humans.

Helping Women With Diabetes For Healthy Pregnancies

Pregnancy is a time of great excitement and anticipation. It also can be a time of anxiety, especially for women with type 1 or type 2 diabetes.

Fetal heart detector with LCD display and speaker

Fetal Heartbeat Detector For Pregnant Mothers

For the pregnant mothers, who have got a baby in the womb will be very keen on listening and monitoring the heartbeat of your baby. Here comes a new health gadget Fetal Heart detector, which is simply handy for those mums who wanna monitor the babies in their wombs.

Alcohol binges early in pregnancy increase risk of infant oral clefts

A new study by researchers at the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (NIEHS), part of the National Institutes of Health, shows that pregnant women who binge drink early in their pregnancy increase the likelihood that their babies will be born with oral clefts.

Pregnancy-Induced Hypertension May Signify Later Vessel Dysfunction

Researchers found a significant positive association between vasodilatation - the ability of artery walls to expand - and insulin sensitivity in women with preeclampsia (pregnancy-induced hypertension).

Treating Substance Abuse Among Pregnant Women

Research at Kaiser Permanente of nearly 50,000 participants showed that pregnant women who receive treatment for substance abuse early in their pregnancy can achieve the same health outcomes as pregnant women with no substance abuse.

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