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An obstetrician who specializes in multiple-birth pregnancies has confirmed that taller women are more likely to have twins. The suspected culprit is insulin-like growth factor, which has…

Nitric oxide (NO) is best known as an air pollutant produced by vehicle emissions and power plants but for pregnant women it is a crucial compound required to avoid hypertension…

Pregnant women who are exposed to second-hand smoke may be at heightened risk for suffering miscarriages, according to research from Sweden.

“Given the high prevalence of exposure to environmental tobacco smoke…

Over the last three decades, the survival of fetuses following a pregnancy complicated by preeclampsia has improved in Norway, new research shows.

Doctors attribute this change to the increased use of…

Obese lactating women may reduce their energy intake by limiting foods that are high in fat and simple sugars.

According to researchers…

Weight gain above guidelines during pregnancy is common, according to researchers, and infants born to women with high weight gain tend to have worse outcomes.

Dr. Naomi E. Stotland,…

Though some women worry that labor and delivery will harm their sex life after pregnancy, a new study finds no evidence that childbirth itself affects a woman’s long-term sexual function.

Pregnant women who are exposed to low levels of air pollution seem to have an increased risk of giving birth before term, Australian researchers report.

Dr. C. Hansen, of…

Individuals whose mothers drink three or more glasses of alcohol at any one occasion in early pregnancy have an increased risk of developing alcohol disorders by 21…

Pregnant women who seek prenatal diagnostic testing to identify genetic or chromosomal abnormalities have a lower risk of miscarriage than previously believed, according to a UCSF study.

The findings…

The South Florida Sun-Sentinel on Monday profiled the Hope Crisis Pregnancy Centers in Florida.

The centers last year saw about 4,000 pregnant women mostly between ages 19 and 24…

Babies born to women who took the newer type of antidepressants called selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors or SSRIs during pregnancy appear to be at increased risk of having a low birth…

After having a cesarean delivery, a woman may experience vaginal bleeding outside her normal periods. Taking oral contraceptive pills can resolve the problem, researchers in Japan report.

Anatomic defects at the…

For women who have had unexplained recurrent miscarriages, treatment with aspirin or another blood-thinner to prevent blood clots seems to improve their chances of delivering a live infant, researchers in Israel…

Pregnant teens generally see advantages and disadvantages to having a baby at an early age, a new study shows, and their perceptions may lead to better pregnancy-prevention messages.

One of the…

Babies whose mothers are exposed to domestic violence during pregnancy are more than twice as likely to die in the first weeks of life, a new study shows.

One…

Women who undergo surgery due to an early pregnancy failure usually are treated in an operating room, often under general anesthesia, but a new study raises questions about…

Tokyo rail companies are providing pregnant women with badges in the hope of prompting other passengers on the Japanese capital’s crowded trains to offer them seats.

The pink and…

In the years following pregnancy, a drop in the relapse rate is noted among women with inflammatory bowel disease (IBD), according to a recent report by European investigators.

However, narrowing…

Roughly 20 percent of epileptic women who take the antiseizure drug valproate during pregnancy will have a fetus with a serious adverse outcome, almost twice the rate associated with the…

Hollywood’s most beautiful couple, Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie, are in the grip of evolutionary forces that made it almost inevitable that their child would be a girl.

According…

The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) in the U.S., meets early next week with the manufacturer of the controversial contraceptive Plan B, in an attempt to resolve…

If labor needs to be induced in pregnant women, it’s better to do it in the morning rather than in the evening, a study shows. Inducing labor in…

A couple’s risk of having a pregnancy end in miscarriage appears to rise along with the father’s age, regardless of how old the mother is, researchers reported Monday.

Their study, of…

For women who experience repeated unexplained miscarriages, the combination of prednisone, aspirin, folate, and progesterone increases their chances of having baby, a team of clinicians from Austria reports in the journal Fertility…