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What is the impact of consumption of vegetables by children at breakfast?

A new study aimed to determine effective and suitable ways to increase the everyday vegetable intake of children.

14 Sep 2022

The effect of cannabis exposure on the entire sperm DNA methylome in rats

A new study examines how cannabis use among men could cause heritable effects on male fertility.

14 Sep 2022

Efficacy and safety of monoclonal antibodies against SARS-CoV-2 during pregnancy

In an article published in the journal Expert Opinion on Drug Safety, scientists have described the safety and efficacy profiles of anti-severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) monoclonal antibodies in pregnant women with coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19).

13 Sep 2022

The maternal and perinatal outcomes of pregnancies complicated by monkeypox infection

A new study reviews the available evidence on the impact of monkeypox infection during pregnancy.

13 Sep 2022

Transplacental passage of specific IgG in maternal SARS-CoV-2 infection

Researchers analyzed antibody profiles of mothers infected with SARS-CoV-2 and their offspring.

13 Sep 2022

Prenatal cannabis exposure linked with mental health problems that persist into early adolescence

Prenatal cannabis exposure following the middle of the first trimester—generally after five to six weeks of fetal development—is associated with attention, social, and behavioral problems that persist as the affected children progress into early adolescence (11 and 12 years of age), according to new research supported by the National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA), part of the National Institutes of Health.

12 Sep 2022

Study explores link between prenatal stress during COVID-19 pandemic and negative neurodevelopmental outcomes in infants

Researchers pursued evidence of prenatal stress during the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic, which could have negatively affected infants.

12 Sep 2022

Many neurocognitive benefits conferred on children born to mothers who eat fish

In a recent study published in the Neurotoxicology journal, researchers explored the benefits of fish consumption in pregnant women.

12 Sep 2022

Parental BMI and early childhood weight gain predicts increased girth at 5 years

A new study reports a correlation between parental weight and rapid childhood weight gain with increased abdominal fat at five years of age.

11 Sep 2022

Duke researchers identify chlamydia’s stealthy cloaking device

Chlamydia, the leading cause of sexually transmitted bacterial infections, evades detection and elimination inside human cells by use of a cloaking device. But Duke University researchers have grasped the hem of that invisibility cloak and now hope they can pull it apart.

9 Sep 2022

Vaccination hesitancy more prominent among pregnant women of lower socioeconomic status

A questionnaire of 1,899 pregnant women nationwide representing all 50 states reveals that during the Covid-19 pandemic if a pregnant woman had lower socioeconomic status and/or were African American, she was less likely to have the intention of taking a Covid-19 vaccine or actually receiving it.

9 Sep 2022

COVID-19’s long-term impact on orphanhood and caregiver loss

Researchers performed epidemiologic modeling to update COVID-19-associated caregiver and parent loss estimates.

9 Sep 2022

Prenatal exposure to air pollution increases risk of childhood allergic rhinitis and asthma

In a recent study published in the Journal of Allergy and Clinical Immunology, researchers assessed the impact of prenatal exposure to air pollution on immune perturbations.

8 Sep 2022

Infections during pregnancy may not pose great risk to the baby's brain, study shows

Infections in pregnant women have been linked to an increased risk of neurodevelopmental conditions, such as autism, in the child later in life. But it does not seem to be the infections themselves that cause autism, researchers from Karolinska Institutet in Sweden show in a study published in The Lancet Psychiatry.

8 Sep 2022

Researchers review role of melatonin in pregnancies complicated by placental insufficiency

A new study explores the role of melatonin in pregnancy.

8 Sep 2022

Children of women with gestational diabetes and obesity more likely to develop ADHD

Children of women with gestational diabetes and obesity may be twice as likely to develop attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) compared to those whose mothers did not have obesity, according to new research published in the Endocrine Society's Journal of Clinical Endocrinology & Metabolism.

8 Sep 2022

Cancer risk higher among children born after frozen-thawed embryo transfer

In a recent PLOS Medicine journal study, scientists have documented that children born after ART, particularly FET, are at an increased risk of developing childhood cancer than those born after spontaneous conception and fresh embryo transfer.

8 Sep 2022

Umbilical cord milking may be safe, more effective for non-vigorous term and near- term infants

A treatment to move blood from the umbilical cord into an infant's body may improve the overall health of newborns classified as non-vigorous—limp, pale and with minimal breathing, suggests a study funded by the National Institutes of Health.

7 Sep 2022

Mothers' experience of stress during pregnancy affects children's emotional development

Pregnant people who had bigger fluctuations in stress from one moment to the next - also called lability - had infants with more fear, sadness and distress at three months old than mothers with less stress variability, reports a new Northwestern University study that examined how a child's developmental trajectory begins even before birth.

7 Sep 2022

Poor diet, food insecurity more common among women with women with disabilities

Women with disabilities are nearly twice as likely to rate their diet as poor and are more likely to experience food insecurity compared to women without disabilities, according to a new study led by researchers at the NYU School of Global Public Health.

6 Sep 2022

Pregnancy News and Research

Latest Pregnancy News and Research

What is the impact of consumption of vegetables by children at breakfast?

The effect of cannabis exposure on the entire sperm DNA methylome in rats

Efficacy and safety of monoclonal antibodies against SARS-CoV-2 during pregnancy

The maternal and perinatal outcomes of pregnancies complicated by monkeypox infection

Transplacental passage of specific IgG in maternal SARS-CoV-2 infection

Prenatal cannabis exposure linked with mental health problems that persist into early adolescence

Study explores link between prenatal stress during COVID-19 pandemic and negative neurodevelopmental outcomes in infants

Many neurocognitive benefits conferred on children born to mothers who eat fish

Parental BMI and early childhood weight gain predicts increased girth at 5 years

Duke researchers identify chlamydia’s stealthy cloaking device

Vaccination hesitancy more prominent among pregnant women of lower socioeconomic status

COVID-19’s long-term impact on orphanhood and caregiver loss

Prenatal exposure to air pollution increases risk of childhood allergic rhinitis and asthma

Infections during pregnancy may not pose great risk to the baby's brain, study shows

Researchers review role of melatonin in pregnancies complicated by placental insufficiency

Children of women with gestational diabetes and obesity more likely to develop ADHD

Cancer risk higher among children born after frozen-thawed embryo transfer

Umbilical cord milking may be safe, more effective for non-vigorous term and near- term infants

Mothers' experience of stress during pregnancy affects children's emotional development

Poor diet, food insecurity more common among women with women with disabilities

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