A recent study published in Translational Psychiatry suggests that the chemical makeup of blood in a newborn’s umbilical cord ...

An interdisciplinary and international team of researchers is using a National Institutes of Health grant to investigate how astrocytes — star-shaped brain cells that support neurons — contribute to ...

In a groundbreaking new study published in Nature Communications, researchers from the University of Colorado Anschutz Linda Crnic Institute for Down Syndrome (Crnic Institute) discovered unique ...

Gynaecologist explains why treatment may require multiple cycles, repeated hormone injections and emotional resilience before ...

In utero gene therapy uses prenatal genetic screening to identify fetuses with lethal mutations and delivers corrective genes ...

Children exposed to opioids before birth may face increased risks of difficulties with vision, attention, behavior and ...

A maternal-fetal medicine expert told Newsweek the findings warrant study, but pregnant women shouldn't stop medications.

Most expectant parents know smoking during pregnancy isn't good for the baby, but few realise just how far-reaching the ...

Prenatal estrogen brain development research: two studies in Early Human Development find that first-trimester maternal ...

If you’re “actively trying to have babies,” one expert told me, “both the man and the woman should be abstaining” from ...

Multicenter study, conducted through the Pediatric Heart Network — and co-led by Cincinnati Children's — will test new ways to strengthen parent well-being, bonding and infant development after ...

Researchers have found that the estrogen in a mother’s blood during the first weeks of pregnancy may predict how large her baby’s head will be at birth. The signal from prenatal estrogen showed up as ...