On the theme of new year, new changes, California will only allow tortillas with the addition of this ingredient to be sold ...

Many of us take vitamins and minerals on a daily basis, but miss one particularly important supplement. A new study showed ...

By recreating a fetal liver niche, FLOs show how liver and immune cells co-develop. Learn more about new groundbreaking ...

The placenta has long been thought to produce serotonin during pregnancy. But in a new study, Yale researchers shatter the deep-rooted hypothesis — and show that the placenta doesn’t produce serotonin ...

In the first two years after the Supreme Court eliminated the constitutional right to abortion, the number of abortions performed annually in the United States went up. On the face of it, this might ...

If state lawmakers have their way, a simple sip of wine or a single cigarette — taken before a woman even knows she is pregnant — could become a criminal offense. Anything a woman does that could ...

In 2013 Susan Klugman, an obstetrician and geneticist who is currently president of the American College of Medical Genetics and Genomics, got back test results that were “really weird.” Her patient ...

Maternal stress could leave epigenetic imprints on genes in the placenta associated with cortisol -- a necessary hormone for fetal development -- and this would affect the baby's development from very ...

CEDAR RAPIDS, Iowa (KCRG) - A bill that requires Iowa schools to show students a video about fetal development in the womb as part of their growth and development curriculum is now before lawmakers. A ...

LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (KAIT/KARK) - A bill in the Arkansas Legislature aims to show a video called “Meet Baby Olivia” in health classrooms across the state. According to our content partner KARK, the bill ...

Doctors say prolonged exposure to environmental toxins could affect a fetus’ development. If pregnant people are in a smoky area for more than a few days, USC Keck School of Medicine’s chair of ...